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Richard L. Sparks; Abdullah Alamer – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although researchers have found strong relationships between first language (L1) skills and second language (L2) anxiety, less is known about how L1 skills in primary school impact L2 anxiety years after L1 has been acquired. Previous research lacked evidence for the mediating role of L2 aptitude and L2 achievement in the relationship. This study…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Elementary School Students
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Fernando Senar; Judit Janés; Àngel Huguet; Josep Ubalde – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the relationship between identification with the local territory, language attitudes and language proficiency in young immigrants in Catalonia, a region in Spain. The aims of the study are to examine how identification with the local territory affects attitudes and proficiency in languages, and whether language attitudes…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Attitudes, Immigrants, Language Proficiency
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Aiping Zhao; Xuening Zhang; Ying Guo; Megan Schneider Dinnesen; Shuyan Sun; Yunqing Xu – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Second language (L2) reading is a complex process in which two languages constantly interact. L1 reading and L2 proficiency are two well-acknowledged factors contributing to L2 reading comprehension. Other factors, such as strategy use and anxiety, might also predict L2 reading comprehension, but their roles have not been examined in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills
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Putu Wia Rosita Dewi; Gusti Putu Arya Arimbawa; Harjuli Surya Putra; Abas Oya; I Made Candiasa; Aay Susilawati – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
This study provides an overview of the level of students' cognitive load in learning English in vocational schools. A quantitative descriptive study uses a cross-sectional survey conducted to measure the level of cognitive load of students in learning English in vocational schools. The subjects are 69 respondents who are students from one of the…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Debra Jo Ponce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers' beliefs about language and technology, pedagogy, and ability to integrate them can be challenging within the second language classroom. This study was a conceptual replication of previous work in the field of TPACK with world language teachers. This mixed-methods study included 59 current in-service world language teachers grades 9-12 in…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, High School Teachers, Language Teachers
Teh-yi Dori Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Attaining Advanced proficiency and beyond has been a principal goal for second language learners, practitioners, and researchers. Achieving this level in writing requires producing connected discourse of paragraph-level length and nurturing the ability to arrange various linguistic units to form a unified and cohesive whole. This ability, known as…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Bilingual Education Programs
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Simona Floare Bora – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article intends to add to the rising discussion related to the employment of authentic plays and drama within a high school compulsory curriculum for enhancing learners' foreign language (L2) oral skills. In particular, it examines the pedagogical use of authentic contemporary plays for developing learners' L2 oral production in terms of (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, High School Seniors
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Bell, Teresa R.; Borden, Rebecca S. – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Advanced oral proficiency is an integral part of language teacher education and has been for decades. To date, little research exists that investigates practicing K-12 nonnative language teachers' target language (TL) maintenance habits. This study presents the results of a research study that investigated the TL proficiency maintenance practices…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers
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Hancock, Charlotte R.; Adams, Mary J.; Kissau, Scott – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Over past decades, there has been a paradigm shift in WL instruction, moving away from traditional, grammar-based programs and toward instruction that promotes student proficiency in the target language. Despite this growing attention to proficiency-based instruction, few studies have investigated the relationship between proficiency-based…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Outcomes of Education
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Nobuhiro Kamiya – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study investigated to what extent the scores of two English tests are correlated to each other, namely, the English test of the "Common Test for University Admissions" (Common Test, henceforth) in Japan and the "TOEIC Bridge", a commercially available English test developed by "Educational Testing Service" (ETS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yijie Li; Chuang Wang; Hailah Saleh Al-Hamed – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether learning strategies play a mediating role in the relationship between learning attitude and foreign language proficiency. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) were employed to analyze the structural connections among language learning strategies, learning attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Language Proficiency, Student Attitudes, Correlation
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Pantea Rinnemaa – Social Studies, 2024
This article examines Swedish civics teachers' perspectives on difficulties and opportunities that their second-language (L2) students encounter when reading textbook texts in civics. The study is based on individual semi-structured interviews with teachers in Grade 9. Civics teachers report uncertainty about identifying the source of difficulties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity
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Art Tsang – TESOL Journal, 2024
Despite scholars' advocacy of intelligibility over nativelikeness in the EFL education context, many learners still seem to favour standard British and American accents. However, comparisons across studies have shown some changes in learners' perceptions, suggesting a move away from standard accent orientation. This article reports part of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Dialects, Pronunciation, Student Evaluation
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Dunn, Karen; Iwaniec, Janina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
A foundation of second language motivational theory has been that motivation contributes to explaining variance in language learning proficiency; however, empirical findings have been mixed. This article presents an innovative approach to exploring L2 proficiency and motivations of teenage English language learners in Madrid, Spain (N = 1773).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ching-Ni Hsieh – ETS Research Report Series, 2023
Research in validity suggests that stakeholders' interpretation and use of test results should be an aspect of validity. Claims about the meaningfulness of test score interpretations and consequences of test use should be backed by evidence that stakeholders understand the definition of the construct assessed and the score report information. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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