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Mu-Hsuan Chou – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Language mindsets influence learners' behavior, motivation, and strategic approaches to studying a language. These mindsets impact how learners perceive control and value in achievement activities, which, in turn, affect their achievement emotions and ultimately their learning strategies and academic performance. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
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I-Chen Huang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the linguistic and non-linguistic goals of the Southeast Asian languages (SEAL) policy in Taiwan. It was proposed by former President Ma Ying-jeou's administration to develop grades 1-12 students' multilingual awareness, for there has been an increasingly significant presence of second-generation Southeast…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ethan Fu-Yen Chiu; Jr-An Lin – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
The Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) approach plays an essential role in English as a lingua franca. Previous GELT studies only examined the influence of Global English exposure on learners' attitudes in the Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circles. This study added explicit instruction on phonological features in addition to a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Emilie S. Le Caous; Tz-Li Wang – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2025
This study investigates the enhancement of spoken English proficiency among students at Taiwan's technological and vocational education (TVE) universities. The focus is on the significant impact of positive learning attitudes and effective methodologies, using questionnaires and in-depth interviews to assess students' confidence and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students
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Rainbow Tsai-Hung Chen – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Developing learners' intercultural communicative competence is considered to be one of the responsibilities of English language teaching professionals. This responsibility has become ever more challenging in today's globalized world, in which most intercultural communication occurs in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts, where a target…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Hanna Panggabean; I-Chung Ke; Alemina Br. Perangin-angin – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2023
Second Language (L2) confidence is considered an affective variable for L2 users to claim ownership of English. However, the findings of previous studies could not be generalized to international students in a non-English-speaking context like Taiwan since English mainly functions as a lingua franca among individuals with diverse first languages.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Self Esteem
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Liwei Hsu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the fact that English is the global academic lingua franca, the implementation of English-mediated instruction (EMI) has inevitably gained momentum in higher-education institutes (HEI) in Taiwan. However, before the full-scale implementation of EMI education, it is imperative to gain an insightful understanding of Taiwanese EFL learners'…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Student Attitudes, Psychological Needs, English (Second Language)
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Rae Ping Lin; Ling Shi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This interview study takes translingual identity as its theoretical framework and a sociocultural linguistic approach as an analytical tool to examine how two Western-educated Taiwanese professors of English writing (Beth and Nita) construct a translingual professional identity. While Beth presented herself as a competent writing instructor beyond…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chang, Yu-jung – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2022
This paper examines the discursive construction of Taiwan's envisioned identity as a Mandarin-English bilingual nation, encapsulated in its recent "2030 Bilingual Nation" policy. Through the lens of imagined community, this paper analyzes the blueprint for the policy to parse out the kinds of (international) ties the Taiwanese government…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Grace Hui Chin Lin – Online Submission, 2024
The primary goal of this project is to assess the students' better communication attainment after applying a series of five interactive strategies to an experiment group of subjects. This class will be compared with a control group of other participants, and in their class, the interactive approaches are not emphasized and practiced openly. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Renner, Julia; Kaltenegger, Sandra – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
The starting point for this research is an eTandem initiative between learners of Mandarin Chinese and German. The participants mainly learnt the dominant variety of their target languages (German Standard German, Mainland Chinese Standard Mandarin), however, their tandem partners are speakers of a non-dominant variety (Austrian Standard German,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, German, Computer Mediated Communication, Standard Spoken Usage
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Mei-Ya Liang – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study explores multilingual international students' narratives of mobility and socialisation through online discursive spaces of interview conversations. Drawing upon an ecological approach to transnational narratives, the researcher analyzed international students' multiscalar interactions and transformations in sociospatial practices. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Chang, Jackie – Arab World English Journal, 2021
English is regarded as a key to globalization or internationalization and future success for Taiwan and its people. One of the most extraordinary results of English-as-the-global-language of English teaching and learning in Taiwan is private English language schools are ubiquitous. Research into how private English language schools weld together…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy; Hajek, John – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This article examines international English-medium students' language aspirations in relation to social mobility as they are studying in a (Mandarin) Chinese-dominant context. It focuses specifically on Vietnamese students in Taiwan and their perspectives on how English and Chinese are related to their present and future life opportunities. Data…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
This article examines English and Chinese language ideologies among Vietnamese students in Taiwan, focusing on their beliefs about the value or benefits of the languages and their self-construction as reflected in these beliefs. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with students of English-medium programs in Taiwanese universities.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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