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Robyn Moallemi – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore the importance of individual learner differences and the effect differentiated instruction (DI) has on learners' levels of engagement. Design/methodology/approach: The author carried out this research using a small-scale action research (AR) study. Findings: The findings suggest that in acknowledging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Learner Engagement, Individualized Instruction
Miroslaw Pawlak – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite undeniable advances in research on language learning strategies in the last several decades, empirical investigations of actions and thoughts that learners engage in to better understand and use grammar structures in different contexts, or grammar learning strategies (GLS), remain scarce. Moreover, there is a paucity of studies examining…
Descriptors: Grammar, Learning Strategies, Intervention, Definitions
Daniel Jung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research into second language acquisition (SLA) has shown that individual difference (ID) variables can be strong predictors of language achievement (e.g., Dornyei, 2003; Skehan, 2003). Traditionally, this research conceptualized ID variables as static and monolithic variables (e.g., Dornyei, 2010). More recently scholars have questioned this…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Daniel Walter – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
There is a need for a continued focus on language learning in advanced language classes beyond the foundations that are formed in the beginning and intermediate levels. Despite this need, little work exists on how to implement language-focused instruction in upper-level courses. As one possible solution, this paper outlines a functional,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Authors, German Literature
Ngo Cong-Lem – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This article reports a qualitative case study on the translanguaging practices of Vietnamese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) educators and explores the mechanisms behind individual differences in their practices through an integrative cultural-historical activity theory perspective. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Fatemeh Monazzah; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
This study investigates persuasive strategies used in the writings of Iranian university students in the field of teaching English as foreign language (TEFL). The study utilized the 7 principles of persuasive strategies presented by Cialdini (The psychology of persuasion, Quill William Morrow, New York 1984; Pre-suasion: A revolutionary way to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), College Students, Foreign Countries
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Jongbong Lee – Language Awareness, 2025
This study investigates how task complexity affects native speakers' and second language (L2) learners', and experts' perceptions of task difficulty in writing tasks. It also explores how task complexity influences English native speakers' and L2 learners' linguistic complexity in their writing. Ninety participants performed one simple and one…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Linguistics, Student Attitudes, English
Paul Leeming; Joseph P. Vitta; Phil Hiver; Dillon Hicks; Stuart McLean; Christopher Nicklin – Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated how students' self-reported individual differences predicted second language (L2) spoken discussion task output, an objective behavioral outcome, in the Japanese university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Although numerous psychological theories are used as a rationale for task-based language teaching (TBLT),…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Huimin Yang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2025
In view of the traditional teaching mode, this study focuses on the application of big data in personalized English teaching in colleges and universities. It aims at improving the teaching effect by using big data. By combining personalized teaching and big data theory, this paper analyzes the current situation of college English teaching,…
Descriptors: Data Use, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Mackenzie Coulter-Kern – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Task-based language teaching and interaction are facilitative contexts for instructed second language acquisition and include abundant opportunities for learners to receive authentic input, engage in negotiation for meaning and pushed output, and to receive feedback and direct attention to linguistic features (Goo, 2019, p. 247). Individual…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Jinghan Sun – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper aims to report on Chinese college students' emotions in English as a foreign language (EFL) speaking classrooms, including the trajectory of their emotions, and their perceived impacts of these emotions on their performances in class. Through conducting a case study among 12 Chinese college students and qualitatively analyzing the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ivy Jones-Mensah; Kris Hilton – Cogent Education, 2024
Writing different forms of text at different levels for responding satisfactorily to issues in the academic community is important. Thus, this paper examines the statistical differences between tertiary students' academic writing skills in different disciplines and at three different levels. We use a quantitative approach and descriptive design to…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Skills, Intellectual Disciplines, Individual Differences
Miroslaw Pawlak; Kata Csizér; Mariusz Kruk; Joanna Zawodniak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Grit is among the individual difference (ID) variables that have recently come to the attention of researchers investigating second language acquisition. While some empirical evidence has been accumulated, it is clearly scant and limited, also because of the fact that many studies have looked into domain-general grit rather than this attribute as…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Katherine Ward; Carlos Andrés Rojas; Rajiv Rao; Erwin Lares – Hispania, 2025
This longitudinal study tracked ten L1 English-speaking learners' acquisition of Spanish voiceless stops /ptk/ by measuring their voice onset time (VOT) over an academic year in two distinct contexts of learning. Living in a Spanish-speaking dorm, participants in the experimental group experienced a "domestic partial-immersion," in which…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Miroslaw Pawlak; Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Mariusz Kruk – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Relatively few studies in the field of second language acquisition have undertaken to investigate the interrelationships of constellations of individual difference variables. This is certainly true of how complexes of ID factors impact motivation to learn an additional language. In order to address this gap, the paper reports a study that examined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation