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Jiuliang Li; Noriko Iwashita – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study applied expectancy-value theory (EVT) to examine the impact of diagnostic language assessment (DLA) on the learning activities of a group of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). A model of test impact on learning was conceptualized by integrating EVT and DLA theories. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ran Wei; Yu Li – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Vocabulary is an essential component of language learning. Despite the fact that form-focused instruction (hereinafter FFI) has been demonstrated to be effective in language learning, it remains unclear when and how FFI can contribute to vocabulary learning. To address this question, this study takes the timing of FFI into consideration and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
Yan Zhang; Chunlin Yao – SAGE Open, 2025
In this study, we conduct a longitudinal experiment to explore the effects of adaptive phonetic training on the identification of the English vowels /i/ and /I/ by learners in China. The vowel /i/ in English has a low F1 value, a high F2 value, and a long duration. In contrast, the vowel /i/ has a high F1 value, a low F2 value, and a short…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonetics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Min Teng; Jinfen Xu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although research shows that second language (L2) learners have major difficulties in developing their productive vocabulary skills, little research has been conducted on how to facilitate productive mastery of learned words. With this in mind, this study investigated the effects of task type and repetition frequency on improving receptive word…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Mastery Learning
Tony Clark; Guoxing Yu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
There now exists an established body of work outlining the challenges international students can face as part of the acculturation process, including a range of academic and non-academic pressures to overcome. For many students, writing essays in academic English for the first time is problematic. This article considers pedagogical approaches for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Test Preparation, Essays, English for Academic Purposes
Dong, Manxia – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Learners' views of a test have been regarded as a crucial source of evidence of a test's construct validity as well as a measurement of its impact. This study investigates students' (N = 3105) perceptions of the National Matriculation English Test (NMET), a high-stakes test in China, and explores the influences of school status and classroom…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Xin Yuan; Xuan Tang – Language Awareness, 2025
This study explored the effects of listening-based lexical focus-on-form (lexical FonF) on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words. One hundred eighty-two adult English learners with two levels of English proficiency (higher and lower proficiency) from a public university in mainland China were assigned to three different…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Morphology (Languages), Grammar, Second Language Instruction
Zhihong Xu; Kausalai Wijekumar; Qing Wang; Robin Irey; Hua Liang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Underdeveloped reading comprehension skills can limit academic success; a particular challenge for English language learners (ELLs). The current study investigated whether a web-based text structure strategy, delivered via the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) program to adult Chinese ELLs, improved students' use of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Instruction
Yuxiao Xie; Ziyi Xie; Siyu Chen; Lei Shen; Zhizhuang Duan – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The National College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) is a key test to assess the English language ability of Chinese university students, and the success rate of the test is important to improve the quality of their English learning. Artificial intelligence technology can be used to predict and explore the factors influencing the success rate. This…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jiayu Liu – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Research on Portuguese language exams in the language assessment field remains scarce. To bridge this gap, this study examined washback from the large-scale, high-stakes Portuguese proficiency tests created by the Center of Evaluation of Portuguese as a Foreign Language ("Centro de Avaliação de Português Língua Estrangeira," or CAPLE as…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Language Proficiency
Jiaxin Li; Er-Hu Zhang; Haihui Zhang; Hecui Gou; Hong-Wen Cao – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Three experiments explored how retrieval practice and corrective feedback affect a third language (L3) vocabulary learning. In the first two experiments, Chinese-English bilinguals without prior French language experience studied English (Second Language, L2)--French (L3) word pairs in repeated studying or retrieval practice without (Experiment…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Error Correction
Mark Feng Teng – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study investigates the effects of three word-focused exercise conditions on vocabulary learning. The exercises were developed based on the involvement load hypothesis. This study also explores how individual differences (e.g. second-language English proficiency level and working memory) affect vocabulary learning outcomes. A total of 180…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Short Term Memory, Learning Activities
Yang, Zening; Sanchez, Hugo Santiago – TESL-EJ, 2023
Over the decades, extensive research efforts have been directed towards classifying and evaluating motivational teaching behaviours. Recent calls in motivational research, however, have emphasised the need to investigate teachers' perspectives on how they develop effective motivational strategies so that implications for motivational teaching are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tan Shaojie; Arshad Abd Samad; Lilliati Ismail – SAGE Open, 2024
The ability to understand listening is an essential skill for non-native speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL). Research has shown that several factors can influence EFL students' English listening comprehension, including the listening strategy they use during listening activities. This study, therefore, used the meta-cognitive…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Listening Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Second Language Instruction
Mark Feng Teng – JALT CALL Journal, 2025
This study aimed to examine incidental learning of multiword expressions (MWEs) from bilingual captioned videos among language minority students. The participants consisted of 403 language minority university students enrolled in the Preparatory Year Programme (PYP) in the Southern part of China. The study evaluated participants' vocabulary…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction