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Yue Peng – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
A review of literature suggested that language teacher cognition had been used interchangeably with teachers' knowledge and beliefs, and examined as a static entity to map out the "what" aspect of teachers' minds. More recently, it has evolved to be thought of as being interactive, dynamic, and situated. However, the relationship between…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Cognitive Processes, Teaching Methods, Chinese
Alessia Cherici – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Counterfactuals are a type of conditional sentences used to convey situations that do not correspond to reality. Tense morphology is a core ingredient to encode counterfactuals in English and most Indo-European languages. Mandarin Chinese (hereafter Chinese) lacks tense morphology and does not require counterfactuals to be formally distinguished…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
Elif Sari – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
Employing G-theory and rater interviews, the study investigated how a high-stakes writing assessment procedure (i.e., a single-task, single-rater, and holistic scoring procedure) impacted the variability and reliability of its scores within the Turkish higher education context. Thirty-two essays written on two different writing tasks (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Writing Evaluation, Scores
Z. Banitalebi; M. Estaji; A. Coombs – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
Research has postulated a link between teachers' beliefs and agentic decisions. This study sought to investigate 215 Iranian EFL preservice teachers' conceptions of assessment, assessment agency, and the interrelationship between these two constructs. Using structural equation modeling, the results revealed that collaboration and reflection…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Nakhon Kitjaroonchai; Prema Marshall; Jirapa Phasook; Nadtawadee Thararuenroeng – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
This study investigated university students' perceptions of notetaking and its potential impact on academic performance, as well as the factors influencing their note-taking decisions. The participants included 150 students, comprising 75 Thai and 75 non-Thai students enrolled at Asia-Pacific International University, Thailand, during the second…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yuya Arai – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Language testing research has suggested that placement accuracy can be an important factor in the consequences of placement decision-making. However, previous studies primarily have used a one-shot teacher judgment of placement accuracy, suffering from a lack of students' perspectives of their time-varying experiences. The present study aimed to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Placement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abida Ayesha – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Learner Autonomy (LA) was considered irrelevant to Asian educational contexts, at least initially, due to Asian cultural norms characterised by conformity and respect for authority in general. This study seeks to highlight how Pakistani English language teachers and learners are engaging in certain practices of autonomy without consciously aiming…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Language Teachers
Lesley Harbon; Ruth Fielding – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This paper explores secondary school students' investment in their language learning after having graduated from one of four bilingual (also termed Content and Language Integrated Language (CLIL)) primary school programs in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. We show the different study pathways pursued by a selection of students and illustrate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Self Concept, Academic Persistence, Second Language Instruction
Pamela M. Wesely; Reuben Vyn; Diane Neubauer – Language Teaching Research, 2024
World language teachers have historically relied on the notion of teaching methods to inform elements of design and procedure in their instructional practice. Teacher beliefs about teaching methods, however, have been shown to be significantly influenced by their context, including their institution and their learners. This phenomenon has led some…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Fang Zhang; Wenjun Yu; Hao Xu – SAGE Open, 2025
This paper reports on a study that investigates the impact of learning multiple foreign languages on learners' social emotional competence development as mediated by the number of foreign languages and the recency of the learning experience. A questionnaire survey that involved 465 Chinese learners of foreign languages was administered that…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Surveys
Xiaomei Sun – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
By telling autoethnographic stories, the author reflects upon her 16 years of EFL teaching and four years of MSc TESOL and PhD Education studies. Teacher intuition has played an important role in guiding her to make pedagogical decisions and judgments. Several teaching activities and designs are presented to demonstrate how the author followed her…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Educational Background
Rebecca Sickinger; Tineke Brunfaut; John Pill – Language Testing, 2025
Comparative Judgement (CJ) is an evaluation method, typically conducted online, whereby a rank order is constructed, and scores calculated, from judges' pairwise comparisons of performances. CJ has been researched in various educational contexts, though only rarely in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing settings, and is generally agreed to…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rosanne Zeppieri – NECTFL Review, 2024
Research confirms that critical thinking plays a fundamental role in decision making and problem solving, skills that are essential to function as successful adults in a complex world. Consequently, it has been a focus of educational research for decades. Faculty meetings and teacher training sessions repeatedly run sessions on ways that teachers…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Problem Solving
Musaddag Elrayah; Sanjar Mirzaliev – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Technology plays a key role in the education and learning of students at the higher education level. It is vital to identify the factors that can develop alignment among the learning objectives of the students and technology. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the effect of factors such as Task Technology Fit, online…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Likert Scales, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sameer Aljabri – Cogent Education, 2024
Previous studies have consistently demonstrated that students typically favor collaborative retrieval practice over practicing individually. However, there is a gap in research regarding how EFL students specifically engage in collaborative retrieval practice compared to individual methods. This study aimed to investigate Saudi EFL students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries