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Mu-Hsuan Chou – Educational Psychology, 2023
Approaches to learning a second/foreign language can be affected by such individual differences as personality traits, motivational variables, and task difficulty. Personality traits have been proven to influence academic achievement, but their effects on motivation and language learning approaches remain unanswered. The first purpose of the study…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), Task Analysis
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Tzu-Hua Chen – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Despite evidence on the interaction between cognitive individual differences (IDs) and task complexity, our knowledge of how affective IDs, such as foreign language enjoyment (FLE), interact with task complexity and other factors is limited. Since tasks and activities were found by Dewaele and MacIntyre (2014) to be most relevant to FLE, and since…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication, Task Analysis
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Liu, Dorinda Tsai-hsiu – TESL-EJ, 2020
In theoretical accounts of second language acquisition, socioeconomic status (SES) has a great impact on the second language (L2) learning outcomes, where their relationship is suggested to be indirect (Ellis, 1994; Gardner, 1985, 2007). Previous studies mostly focus on the influence of SES on L2 general proficiency or L2 academic achievements…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Socioeconomic Status
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Yeldham, Michael – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study examined the influence of formulaic language on second language (L2) listeners' lower-level processing, in terms of their ability to accurately identify the words in texts. On the one hand, there were reasons for expecting the presence of the formulas to advantage the learners, because the learners would process these formulaic words…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – JALT CALL Journal, 2016
The current study reports on a group of Taiwanese college students' first-person diary accounts of their private, transactional listening activities outside the classroom. Issues related to students' material selection, listening problems, and perceived usefulness of keeping a listening diary were explored. It was found that most students chose…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Audiovisual Instruction, Diaries, Student Attitudes
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Wu, Ting-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Learning English by reading articles on multimedia e-book devices can assist students in improving their vocabulary and in understanding the associations among vocabulary, textual meaning, and paragraph composition. Adaptive integration of reading technologies and strategies not only strengthens their language ability and reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Diaries, Electronic Publishing, Reading Comprehension, Guidance
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Lin, Su-Fei – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
This study investigated the effectiveness of group work (GW) in EFL vocabulary learning by second year, non-English major, university students in Taiwan, in comparison with working individually (IW). The students (N = 44) worked in mixed ability groups of 3-4 or in IW to complete vocabulary exercises following reading activities. The classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Cooperative Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Lee, Hsiang-Ni – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This study examined 39 Taiwanese adult EFL learners' responses to reading children's literature in a non-major freshman English class. Exposed to authentic illustrated storybooks along with a variety of literacy practices, the students' end-of-the-semester feedback has shown that they generally enjoyed the books and felt they had made progress in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Sung, Pei-Ju; Lin, Su-Wei; Hung, Pi-Hsia – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Task difficulty is a critical issue affecting test developers. Controlling or balancing the item difficulty of an assessment improves its validity and discrimination. Test developers construct tests from the cognitive perspective, by making the test constructing process more scientific and efficient; thus, the scores obtained more precisely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening, Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests
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Wang, Yen-Hui – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
The study investigated the learner perceptions of a CALL component in a blended language learning context. 52 Taiwanese college students attended instructional classroom sessions and did weekly online assignments in the form of interactive web-based exercises over one semester. Their learning performance was measured by means of two computer-based…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lin, Lu-Fang – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated which level of graded reader was most appropriate for Chinese-speaking learners of various English abilities and whether there were significant differences in comprehension and vocabulary acquisition when different English proficiency (EP) groups read texts of varying difficulty levels. Eight-two senior high school students…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Questionnaires, Second Language Learning
Wu, Chen-Huei – ProQuest LLC, 2011
What is second language fluency? What is a foreign accent? Is it possible for an adult second language learner to speak fluently with a heavy accent or vice versa? What factors contribute to the perception of fluency and a foreign accent? What acoustic attributes correlate with the perception of fluency and a foreign accent? To answer these…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Articulation (Speech), Vowels, Language Tests
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Lei, Hao; Tseng, Ju-Shih – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Although ubiquitous learning enhances students' access to learning materials, it is crucial to find out which media presentation modes produce the best results for English listening comprehension. The present study examined the effect of media presentation mode (sound and text versus sound) on English listening comprehension and cognitive load.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension, Long Term Memory, Redundancy