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Da Yan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
The aim of the study was to examine the effects of rubric co-creation on peer feedback. From a social constructivist perspective, rubric co-creation might have the ability to promote the quality of feedback messages, interactivities within feedback processes, and uptake of feedback information in a peer-based collaborative setting of higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Peer Evaluation, Peer Relationship
Abood, Rusul Assim; Alalwany, Assim Abood Zbar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
In this research, the researcher adopts a practical and the theoretical parts. First, is the practical part, it consists of the problem, the aim, the hypothesis, the procedures and the limits of the study. These will be in the first part. In part two which is the theoretical part, the researcher indicates two main types of researches which are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Researchers
Wang, Felix Hao; Mintz, Toben H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The structure of natural languages give rise to many dependencies in the linear sequences of words, and within words themselves. Detecting these dependencies is arguably critical for young children in learning the underlying structure of their language. There is considerable evidence that human adults and infants are sensitive to the statistical…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Sentences, Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Atar, Cihat – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
The present study aims to test if Turkish L2 users of English judge the grammaticality of generic/habitual real conditionals in Turkish differently compared to Turkish monolinguals. Bassetti and Cook (2011) and Bialystok (2001) claim that one of the outcomes of being a bilingual is an increase in metalinguistic awareness. Accordingly, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar
Teng, Feng – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
The relationships between knowledge and regulation of cognition and how they interact to mediate the effects of task-induced involvement load on word learning and confidence judgments were investigated. The participants were 77 undergraduate English majors. They were required to complete a checklist on metacognition. Subsequently, they were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Metacognition, Questionnaires
Han, Jing; Lu, Qingsheng – English Language Teaching, 2018
Achievement motivation as one of the most important parts in learning motivation indicates a concern with success in competition with some standard of excellence. Learners who are highly motivated to learn a language are likely to use a variety of strategies. Besides achievement motivation, goal setting, a very important cognitive mediator between…
Descriptors: Correlation, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies
Schuler, Kathryn D.; Reeder, Patricia A.; Newport, Elissa L.; Aslin, Richard N. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Successful language acquisition hinges on organizing individual words into grammatical categories and learning the relationships between them, but the method by which children accomplish this task has been debated in the literature. One proposal is that learners use the shared distributional contexts in which words appear as a cue to their…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Grammar, Classification, Word Frequency
Baskin, Sami; Mumcu, Muhsin – International Education Studies, 2018
Dictionaries, one of the oldest tools of language education, have continued to be a part of education although information technologies and concept of education has changed over time. Until today, with the help of the developments in technology both types of dictionaries have increased, and usage areas have expanded. Therefore, it is possible to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dictionaries, College Students, Second Language Learning
Schneider, Arthur E. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Action research was undertaken to begin to explore the possibility of improving second-language Thai college student performance on completion questions by using bolded and underscored words in test item stems, called "assist devices." This intervention was designed to focus student attention on key terms. Twenty-one students, in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistive Technology, Test Items, Second Language Learning
Varisoglu, M. Celal – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The aim of this paper is to describe ideas that students learning Turkish in Lithuania have about Turkish culture and Turkish people. A descriptive method was used in the research. The data for the research was collected from 15 students who learn Turkish at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania. For the participating in the research students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness
Khan, Shaista Irshad – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Critical thinking is seen as a highly desirable way of thinking that needs to be encouraged in all areas of higher education. However, it is not easy to conceptualise critical thinking in ways that can help in its development and in its assessment. Recent policy documents in Pakistan have laid emphasis on the development of critical thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
Nikitina, Larisa; Furuoka, Fumitaka – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aimed to examine dimensionality in language learners' epistemic beliefs. To achieve this, a survey was conducted using a newly-developed research instrument-"Language Learners' Epistemic Beliefs" (LLEB) questionnaire. Based on a review of literature, it was proposed that language learners' epistemic beliefs would cluster in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
al-Utbi, Mahdi I. Kareem; Aljubory, Mawj K. Obeid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This paper tries to answer whether Iraqi EFL college students are able to reset the parametric values of their native Arabic into those which suit English. It aims at enhancing Iraqi students' knowledge of some of the parametric values of English via tackling three parameters: "Null-subject parameter," "Head-parameter," and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Ustuk, Özgehan; Aydin, Selami – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Research has mainly focused on the causes and effects of foreign language anxiety (FLA), an affective factor that adversely affects speaking skills, while few studies have concentrated on how to decrease the level of FLA among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Moreover, research lacks the effects of the use of paralinguistic features…
Descriptors: Paralinguistics, Cues, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Aydin, Fatma – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
The present study investigates the relationship between L2 metalinguistic knowledge and L2 achievement among intermediate-level adult Turkish EFL learners studying at a large scale Turkish university. Metalinguistic knowledge refers to the ability to correct a grammatically incorrect structure in English and explain why it is incorrect, and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Knowledge Level, Adults, English (Second Language)