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Zhangwei Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Motivation and anxiety are two crucial factors influencing learning outcomes, yet limited empirical research on expectancy-value theory can be found within previous literature about Chinese undergraduate students studying English as a foreign language (EFL). Moreover, few studies have examined the interaction between motivation and skill-specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Francisca N. Ogba; Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie; Ntasiobi C. Igu; Beth Nnena Oluka; Michael O. Binuomote; Bolupe Abayomi Awe – SAGE Open, 2025
This study investigates how autonomy, competence, and relatedness needs impact student engagement during work placement learning tasks (student engagement henceforth), mediated by intrinsic motivation-to-know, and moderated by perceived instructor autonomy support. Conducted with 311 undergraduate students across 116 Nigerian firms/organizations,…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Learner Engagement, Student Placement, Job Placement
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Fuyu Kong; Yanli Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
To explore the washback of the HSK on students learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL), the study surveyed 1,616 SCL students from 25 different mother tongue backgrounds and interviewed international students studying in China through questionnaire and interview. The following was found in this study: (a) The HSK influenced both the process…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Tran Ba Loc; Nguyen Thi Thanh Ngan; Le Duy Linh; Nguyen Trong Luan – SAGE Open, 2025
On-the-job training (OJT) programs at private universities play an essential role in providing students with real-world experiences, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed for future career. Researching the factors that affect the effectiveness of OJT is extremely necessary to complete and improve the quality of this training program.…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Private Colleges, College Students, Program Effectiveness
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Paulo Padilla-Petry; Julio Rodríguez-Rodríguez; Sara Pérez-Hernando – SAGE Open, 2025
The discourse surrounding active learning in higher education (HE) highlights its potential to improve learning outcomes, foster student engagement, and promote active student positionality. However, several studies have underscored instances of student resistance and institutional impediments to active learning. Given the substantial variability…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Legal Education (Professions), Nursing Education
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Yuting Zheng; Yuanlan Jiang; Jian-E- Peng – SAGE Open, 2025
English Language MOOCs (LMOOCs) employ multimodal resources to enhance second language learners' engagement and motivation. This study examined the multimodal instructional discourse in English LMOOCs in a Chinese MOOC platform, focusing on the rhetorical relations between the linguistic mode, termed verbiage, and two non-linguistic modes, namely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jia-Ying Lee – SAGE Open, 2024
This research was a quasi-experiment that examined the effects of CLIL in an educational context in Taiwan's higher education. Two groups of first-year undergraduate students were involved. One (65 students) was taught with CLIL; the other (59), the conventional approach. Their knowledge of the content and learning attitudes (self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
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Yanhong Ma – SAGE Open, 2025
Research on language motivation has tended to focus on the phenomena of demotivation and remotivation in the English classroom. This study utilized Q methodology to analyze the dynamics of demotivation and remotivation among 15 Chinese university students during their English learning process from primary school to senior middle school. Informed…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Q Methodology, College Students
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Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2025
Learners' English proficiency can be shaped by social environments, motivational factors, and emotions. According to situated expectancy-value theory, students' expectations of success and subjective task values (STVs) influence academic performance. Achievement emotions, which refer to emotions directly related to learning activities or outcomes,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mao Zhao; Ting Li; Yating Yu; Kuen Fung Sin; En Zheng – SAGE Open, 2025
In the sphere of second or foreign language (L2) pedagogy, empirical evidence has increasingly spotlighted the role of learners' metacognitive strategies as formidable predictors of their willingness to engage in L2 communication (WTC). Nonetheless, the interrelationship among learners' metacognitive strategies, self-efficacy, and intrinsic…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Language Usage, Communication (Thought Transfer), Self Efficacy
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Esther T. Canrinus; Pawel Scheffler; Karolina Baranowska – SAGE Open, 2024
This article examines secondary school learners' motivation to learn English as a foreign language (EFL) in relation to two contextual factors: school type and school location. Data were collected from 352 Polish learners who attended English instruction in general and technical secondary schools in a large city and a small town in western Poland.…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Danya Shaalan – SAGE Open, 2024
The second-language (L2) Motivational Self System (L2MSS) proposed by Zoltán Dörnyei described how L2 learners are motivated through envisioning their ideal future L2 self. The L2MSS framework for studying L2 motivation has had mixed results. The aim of this study was to evaluate measuring future selves as L2 motivators consistent with the L2MSS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Traits, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huashan Wu – SAGE Open, 2024
Multiple previous studies in language learning have examined the static effect of various independent variables on Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA), but little attention has been given to the dynamic features of these two learner emotions. The present study is based on a pseudo-longitudinal design to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Wen Liu; Zhen-fang Xie – SAGE Open, 2024
Although recent years have seen a growing interest in students' experiences of boredom in foreign language learning, scant attention has been paid to this negative emotion in online live classes. With a mixed-methods approach, this study investigated what factors were responsible for student boredom in online live classes and what made Chinese…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Peer Influence, Internet