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Ramli; Fitriawati; Anjelina Nirmala – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
This study aims to investigate students' speaking anxiety in English classes in the second semester of Universitas Borneo Tarakan. Specifically, this study examines the factors that influence students' speaking anxiety and strategies to minimize it based on what the students have experienced. Thirty-eight students were selected as research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Speech Communication, Anxiety
Habi Septiawan; Bambang Setiyadi; Mahpul; Muhammad Sukirlan; Khairun Nisa – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
To date there have been a lot of currently emerging studies focusing on English speaking anxiety experienced by Indonesian university students. Nevertheless, particularly the studies have not investigated university students in Lampung region as the new context. This study aims to describe the level, attitude and perception, and the causes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Jiang, Michael Yi-Chao; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung; Lau, Wilfred Wing-Fat; Chai, Ching-Sing; Wu, Na – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: While automatic speech recognition (ASR) is increasingly used for commercial purposes, its influence on the learners' linguistic performance in terms of oral complexity, accuracy and fluency was under-explored. To date, few studies have been conducted to investigate how the dictation ASR technology could be incorporated into language…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Automation, Accuracy, Language Fluency
Kataoka, Yuka; Thamrin, Achmad Husni; Van Meter, Rodney; Murai, Jun; Kataoka, Kotaro – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
In second or foreign language (SFL) education, oral corrective feedback (OCF) is widely used to individually correct students' erroneous utterances during classroom hours. However, students cannot have sufficient opportunities for oral production and personalized feedback during classroom hours if a class is large-scale with many students. This…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Feedback (Response), Learning Management Systems, Japanese
Cennet Yildiz – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study explored the effect of ChatGPT on the speaking self-efficacy level of English as foreign language learners. The research followed the mixed method approach and involved a total of 65 participants who were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The experimental group used the ChatGPT for communicative activities, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence, English (Second Language)
Mohammad Naghavian – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Second language (L2) learners hold different learning beliefs that influence their interpretation of classroom experiences and their L2 learning process. Developing a thorough understanding of such beliefs is therefore imperative. This article reports the representations of Iranian English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' beliefs about L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
Maya C. Rose; Patricia J. Brooks; Arshia K. Lodhi; Angela Cortez – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined putative benefits of testing and production for learning new languages. Undergraduates (N = 156) were exposed to Turkish spoken dialogues under varying learning conditions (retrieval practice, comprehension, verbal repetition) in a computer-assisted language learning session. Participants completed pre- and posttests of number-…
Descriptors: Turkish, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
Md. Abdus Shabur; Jafrin Jahan; Protik Barua – Discover Education, 2025
As the global educational landscape undergoes rapid transformation, "Education 4.0" emerges as a cutting-edge paradigm that harnesses advanced technologies to revolutionize the learning process. This study investigates the impact of Education 4.0 on improving English proficiency among engineering students in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explored the communication strategies of college students majoring in one of five modern foreign languages (i.e., English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish) and their relation to communication confidence. It also explored the association between their strategy use and the difficulty regarding the speaking components, and students'…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Universities, Chinese
Tatchakrit Matyakhan; Ruedeerath Chusanachoti; Joey Andrew Lucido Santos – rEFLections, 2024
Learning-oriented assessments have been implemented in the English language classroom to maximize students' ability to acquire a language through their involvement in assessment processes. Nevertheless, empirical studies investigating the oral communication ability of students using learning-oriented assessments remain limited. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alam, Md Rabiul; Ansarey, Diana; Abdul Halim, Huzaina; Rana, Md Masud; Milon, Md Rashed Khan; Mitu, Rabeya Khatun – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
English is regarded as a compulsory subject in Bangladesh, which learning starts at the very early stage of a learner. However, after spending almost 12 years in learning English, learners' oral skill is not seen up to the mark when they enter the university for tertiary education. Sometimes, they are noticed to have their unwillingness to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ates, Ayse; Bahsi, Niymet – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Emotional intelligence is expressed as a person's ability to differentiate between oneself and other's emotions, to perceive them, and to act accordingly. The emotions left in the background by the education world, which are based on cognitive skills, have started to take place in education from the perspective of emotional intelligence in recent…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Haya Fayyad Abuhussein; Rania Mohammad Qassrawi; Sami Shaath – Cogent Education, 2023
Affective factors, such as anxiety, are located among the obstacles that hinder language learning and can result in language learners who are resistant to language input, especially in foreign language learning contexts. Thus, the current research effort aimed at examining the level of speaking anxiety among foreign language learners (English and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Arabic, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
Timothy Doe – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Language learning activities involving time-pressured repetition of similar content have been shown to facilitate improvements in fluency. However, concerns have been voiced about whether these gains might be offset by reduced levels of grammatical accuracy. This descriptive study tracked the oral proficiency of 32 Japanese university students…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yongkang Wang; Pengfei Chen – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The primary objective of this study is to enhance the English language proficiency of undergraduate students pursuing bachelor's degree programs. This is achieved through the development of a mandatory English course based on Interest-driven creator (IDC) principles within a blended learning environment. The IDC course was implemented over a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency