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Sanghee Kang; YouJin Kim – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Although increasing evidence has demonstrated the benefits of mobile technology in diverse aspects of language learning, research on the use of mobiles in task-based instruction has been scarce. Particularly, there has been little research directly investigating predictors of the quality of mobile-assisted, video-making tasks. To fill the gap and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chasetareh, Fatemeh; Barabadi, Elyas; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Flett, Gordon L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The current study investigated how perfectionism can be related to L2 learners' achievement with motivation and two aspects of self-regulated learning as possible mediators. This study also evaluated the factor structure of the Big Three Perfectionism Scale (BTPS) in an Iranian sample. The participants were 495 Iranian high school students who…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High School Students, Student Motivation, Independent Study
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Marisa de la Torre; Elaine Allensworth; Kaitlyn Franklin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: English learners (ELs) have the potential to bring much-needed multilingual skills to the workforce, and most ELs aspire to graduate high school and earn a post-secondary credential (Gwynne, Pareja, Ehrlich, & Allensworth, 2012; Shi & Watkinson, 2019). But active ELs graduate high school at far lower rates than their…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, High School Students, At Risk Students, Student Characteristics
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Choi, Jungtae; Kim, Kihyun – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Despite extensive research examining features of adolescents' ego-identity development, little research has demonstrated patterns of ego-identity development and its relationship with various individual and environmental factors that are theoretically important for identity development. Objective: The current study investigated…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, Grade 11
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Mahmoodi, Mohammad Hadi; Hosseiniyar, Shiva; Samoudi, Negin – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This correlational study examined the relationship among some English teachers' characteristics and their students' foreign language learning. Eighty-two Iranian high school teachers who taught English completed a battery of questionnaires. The scores of the teachers' students on their final exam were collected as indicators of their English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, High School Teachers
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Eccius-Wellman, Cristina; Santana, Josefina C. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
Proficiency in a second language depends on different factors; some of these are individual, while others depend more on the social context where the learning takes place. This article describes a study that examined variables that can lead to proficiency in English as a second language. The study was carried out among first semester university…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Predictor Variables, High School Students, Private Schools
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Alotaibi, Nayef – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Although many studies have examined the ability of admission tests and High School General Point Averages to predict academic performance, they are not in agreement whether or not, these two measures are an entirely sufficient criterion to foretell college learning success. In addition, there seems to be a gap in the literature concerning using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Point Average, High School Students, Standardized Tests
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Schlendorf, Christine; Kelly, Angela M.; Krakehl, Robert – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2023
Student performance in high school Earth Science coursework often depends upon access to high quality teaching and resources. This study employed a non-experimental correlational research design to explore teacher-level and school-level variables and their relationship to students' Earth Science performance. The theoretical framework is derived…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Science Achievement, Science Education, Access to Education
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Jo, Claire W. – Written Communication, 2021
Language learning is context-dependent and requires learners to employ different sets of language skills to fulfill various tasks. Yet standardized English as a foreign language assessments tend to conceptualize English proficiency as a unidimensional construct. In order to distinguish English proficiency as separate context-driven constructs, I…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Essays
Susan Rowe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explored whether unnecessary linguistic complexity (LC) in mathematics and biology assessment items changes the direction and significance of differential item functioning (DIF) between subgroups emergent bilinguals (EBs) and English proficient students (EPs). Due to inconsistencies in measuring LC in items, Study One adapted a…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ahmetovic, Emnijeta; Becirovic, Senad; Dubravac, Vildana – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine foreign language classroom anxiety and motivation to speak in English as a foreign language with respect to gender and grade level as well as their effects on students' EFL performance. The research sample comprised 160 (middle and high school) students. Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Bozdag, Faruk – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
Due to the intensification of global migration movements, the importance of studies in the field of acculturation has been increasing. In order to develop a healthy adaptation process between the migrant community and the host society, it is especially necessary to conduct studies on the acculturation processes of young migrants. Exploring the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Orientation, Refugees, Migration Patterns
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Min, Moon Hong; Chon, Yuah V. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This study examines how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' motivational practice affects learners based on a motivational design for learning and performance, the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction (ARCS) model of motivation. There was also an examination of how learners' perceptions of teachers' motivational practices were…
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Singh, Rajni; Choudhary, Sanjiv Kumar – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018
This paper reports the findings of the study on the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) variables and students' achievement in learning ESL (AESL) in a few selected secondary schools of India. Through this study an attempt has been made to predict which variable of SES affect students' AESL. A questionnaire survey has been used to…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Socioeconomic Status
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May, Emily M.; Witherspoon, Dawn P. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Hispanic adolescents have high expectations for their own educational attainment, but educational attainment outcomes for Hispanic young adults are relatively low on average. Limited scholarship links Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations with attainment in adulthood. Using a longitudinal within-group approach, the authors examined…
Descriptors: Expectation, Hispanic American Students, Educational Attainment, Adolescent Attitudes
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