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Mark Critchley; Irmgard Wanner; Sabina Schaffner – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This paper presents the findings of a survey on research activities and research cultures across the CercleS network. The survey was conducted under the auspices of the CercleS Focus Group on Leadership and Management and aimed to explore the scope of research in Language Centres; the links between institutional factors such as staff contracts and…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Research
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Carmen Mihaela Cretu; Diana Popa – Cogent Education, 2024
Just as we can't expect actors trained primarily for the stage to perform the same way in films, conventional Public Speaking (PS) must adapted to digital environments. This shift emphasizes the need to treat Digital Oratory (DO) as a separate, skill-based discipline. Our research aims to examine DO instruction in English as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Instruction, English (Second Language), Electronic Learning
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Eveline Boers-Visker – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Sign language learners with a spoken language background face the challenge of acquiring a second language in a different modality. In the course of this endeavor, one of the modality-specific phenomena they encounter is the use of classifier predicates, also known as depicting signs. Classifier predicates contain a meaningful hand configuration…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Di Zou; Morris Siu-Yung Jong; Xinyi Huang; Gary Cheng; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Michael Yi-Chao Jiang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR) is a form of virtual reality that employs 360-degree videos to immerse learners in virtual environments. As SVVR can simulate realistic experiences, the current trend of language education is towards more use of it. To examine its current status, this study systematically reviewed 31 articles on…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology, Computer Simulation, Second Language Instruction
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van den Broek, Ellen W. R.; Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma W.; van Kemenade, Ans M. C.; Meijer, Paulien C.; Unsworth, Sharon – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This study reports on EFL teachers' self-reported teaching practices aimed at stimulating students' language awareness. It investigates whether, and to what extent, awareness-raising practices are currently implemented in EFL secondary education in the Netherlands, how these practices can be characterised, and how awareness-raising practices can…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Panpan Yao; David Hall; Hagit Borer; Linnaea Stockall – Second Language Research, 2024
It remains unclear whether late second language learners (L2ers) can acquire sufficient knowledge about unique-to-L2 constructions through implicit learning to build anticipations during real-time processing. To tackle this question, we conducted a visual world paradigm experiment to investigate high-proficiency late first-language Dutch…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Prediction
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Dieuwerke Rutgers – Language Awareness, 2024
Schools are increasingly using content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approaches to education, whereby the teaching of subject content and an additional language occurs in an integrated manner. While language and learning are inextricably linked and the rewards of CLIL many, integrated teaching requires a specialised professional…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Goris, José; Denessen, Eddie; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The present study investigates whether CLIL learners' high scores in English as a foreign language (EFL) can be attributed to three specific learner variables: 'EFL aptitude', 'EFL confidence' and 'international orientation' -- and whether out-of-school EFL exposure has an effect. The study was undertaken in eight secondary school CLIL classes in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Lijie Shao; Heath Rose – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In recent decades, English taught programmes have rapidly increased in number throughout Europe and East Asia as universities aim to internationalise their curriculum, which has given rise to an increase in English-medium instruction (EMI). This study aims to compare the teaching experiences at three EMI programmes in The Netherlands, China, and…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rouffet, Charline; van Beuningen, Catherine; de Graaff, Rick – Language Learning Journal, 2023
While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is recognised as an effective approach worldwide, its implementation in foreign language (FL) classrooms remains difficult. Earlier studies have identified factors impeding CLT implementation, such as a lack of communicative lesson materials or teachers' more traditional views on language learning. In…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Brandt, Annika C.; Schriefers, Herbert; Lemhöfer, Kristin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The aim of this study was twofold: first, to develop an experimental technique as a tool to investigate learning outcomes of spontaneous, naturalistic second language (L2) learning under controlled laboratory conditions; and second, to explore how this technique can be used to understand the basic conditions and limits of this learning. Two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Nouns
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van der Ploeg, Mara; Willemsen, Annerose; Richter, Louisa; Keijzer, Merel; Koole, Tom – Classroom Discourse, 2022
In this conversation analytic study, we investigate requests for assistance in the third-age (65+) language classroom. Seven Dutch seniors participated in a one-month course of English as a foreign language. We found that these seniors asked many language-related questions which fell into one of three categories: (1) production-oriented questions,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Yesil, Seyma; Balçikanli, Cem – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
As English is widely accepted as a lingua franca in today's world, the importance of the language has been acknowledged globally in the present case. To rank the countries in terms of their English language proficiency, the EF Proficiency Index is prepared each year. In this study, five countries having the highest scores according to the Index…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries
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van der Zwaard, Rose; Bannink, Anne – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
In this paper we explore and identify emerging patterns of synchronous digital discourse trajectories between dyads of native (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS), with a particular focus on (absence of) negotiated interaction. We will present a new model of L2 learning interaction that is a schematic representation of two main types of hearer…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Persuasive Discourse, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Processes
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Schepens, Job J.; van Hout, Roeland W. N. M.; van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
We investigated age-related decline in adult learning of Dutch as an additional language (Ln) in speaking, writing, listening, and reading proficiency test scores for 56,024 adult immigrants with 50 L1s who came to the Netherlands for study or work. Performance for all four language skills turned out to decline monotonically after an age of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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