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Muzi Li; Teng Teng Yap; Fong Peng Chew – Journal of International Students, 2025
How does cultural background moderate the relationship between enjoyment and willingness to communicate in second language (L2) Chinese learning? This study addresses this question through an empirical investigation involving 457 international L2 Chinese learners in Shandong Province, China. The participants completed a paper-based questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Anna Stepanovna Borisova; Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova; Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva; Muhammad Arif Soomro – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
The present study investigates the correlations between socio-biographical variables (such as age, gender, years of studying English language, and educational environment) and foreign language anxiety learning. The study also compares the manifestation of foreign language anxiety among Chinese and Russian university students. A mixed-method of…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Age Differences
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Qiangzhen Zou – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
This study employed a questionnaire to investigate the level, sources, and coping strategies of English learning anxiety among non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese local normal university under blended learning mode. The study revealed that non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese local normal university generally experienced a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Hong Tu; Han Shi – European Journal of Education, 2024
The role of students' well-being in their academic development and growth has been reported in the literature. Nonetheless, most of the previous studies have revolved around the predictive role of interpersonal factors in students' well-being, and the influence of personal factors is overlooked. To bridge this gap, this study probed the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Persistence, Resilience (Psychology)
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Jianhua Zhang; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
The available classifications of self-regulated learners may not be applicable to second or foreign language writing due to the contextual nature of self-regulated learning. This study intended to fill the gap by exploring the profiles of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing self-regulation and their association with…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Characteristics, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Huan Li; Fei Cao; Weiwei Dai – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
To tackle the problem of graduate employability (GE), higher education researchers and practitioners are suggesting the inclusion of employability modules in university curricula. However, the orthodoxy of the major-based undergraduate curriculum (MBUC) has rarely been challenged in the GE literature. Drawing on Clarke's (2018) [Clarke, M. (2018).…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Undergraduate Study, Majors (Students)
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Yuanlan Jiang; Jian-E Peng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Language learner engagement, which is receiving increased attention, has predominantly focused on offline classroom contexts, while learner engagement in language Massive Open Online Courses (LMOOCs) remains under-explored. This study was conducted on a College English MOOC with the purpose of examining learner engagement and its relations with…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Personal Autonomy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wu Zhangli; Wang Xuewen; Lilliati Ismail; Norhakimah Khaiessa Ahmad; Omer HassanAli Mahfoodh – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined the challenges of English learning encountered by Chinese international students in a Malaysian university, as well as the contributing factors and strategies students employ to cope with these challenges. A total of 60 Chinese international students (51.7% male and 48.3% female) participated in this study, with an average stay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Study Abroad
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Yilu Yang – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Language is often regarded as one of the characteristics of interaction-based observed race, and heritage language is no exception. Considering the bilingual cultural environment of the Chinese community in Australia, this research analyses the language-ethnic identity relationships of Chinese-Australian adolescents. Drawing on in-depth…
Descriptors: Native Language, Self Concept, Ethnic Groups, Bilingualism
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Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Li, Zheng; Li, Bing – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
It has been widely argued that willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is a dual construct of the learner's trait and state. This study aimed to explore the relationships between trait-level antecedents (students' demographic features) and their L2 WTC. A sample of 1502 university students was recruited to participate in this…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Age Differences
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Shihai Zhang; Hanfu Mi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Chinese has a rich and diverse vocabulary of terms, especially verbs, expressing power relationships. This paper selected 25 power relationship terms from the Chinese Proficiency Scale for International Chinese Education, and used a true-false format to test the differences in acquisition between international students from Confucian cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Power Structure, Chinese, Language Proficiency
Jiacheng Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The concept of second language (L2) learning motivation (L2 motivation) has been a focal point of extensive research in second language acquisition (SLA) for over 50years, with both scholars and classroom language instructors acknowledging the pivotal role motivation plays in L2 learning. This action research study tests an MTP within a Chinese…
Descriptors: Action Research, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yunchuan Chen; Tingting Huan – Second Language Research, 2024
Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This study investigated whether Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such difference. We…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Reading Processes
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Ping Zhao; Chunling Sun; Baojun Lv; Lan Guo; Jiansheng Gao; Xin Zhao; Fengming Jiao – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
This paper discusses the application value of the writing teaching mode combined with the mixed teaching mode in college English writing teaching against the background of big data. Focusing on production-oriented approach (POA) theory, this paper proposes a mixed learning writing model for English teaching and applies the POA mixed learning…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Blended Learning, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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