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Salla-Riikka Kuusalu; Päivi Laine; Minna Maijala; Maarit Mutta; Mareen Patzelt – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore how university language students evaluate different sustainability themes and examine the overall relevance of ecological, social, cultural and economic sustainability dimensions in language education. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was designed to study Finnish university language students' (n =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Modern Language Curriculum, Second Language Learning
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Gurcan, Fatih; Erdogdu, Fatih; Cagiltay, Nergiz Ercil; Cagiltay, Kursat – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Student engagement is critical for both academic achievement and learner satisfaction because it promotes successful learning outcomes. Despite its importance in various learning environments, research into the trends and themes of student engagement is scarce. In this regard, topic modeling, a machine learning technique, allows for the analysis…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Learning Motivation
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Raisa Harju-Autti; Marita Mäkinen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The number of immigrant students in Finland is increasing; thus, this qualitative case study investigates ways of providing targeted support measures for recently arrived Finnish language learners (RAFLLs) in Finnish lower secondary education. Focusing on linguistic responsiveness, the teaching arrangements and support measures are examined not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Municipalities, Immigrants
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Mason A. Wirtz; Simone E. Pfenninger; Irmtraud Kaiser; Andrea Ender – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The present study takes a variationist perspective to explore the varietal repertoires of adult learners of German as a second language (L2), that is, their variable use of standard German, Austro-Bavarian dialect, and mixture varieties. Forty L2 learners completed a virtual reality task involving interactions with dialect-speaking and…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Variation, German
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Joseph Siegel – International Journal of Listening, 2024
Listening to academic lectures in a second language (L2) can be a daunting task, as the listener faces various challenges related to processing the speech stream, prioritizing the importance of information, and deciding when, where and how to take notes. A host of factors can contribute to student comfort in and ability to take "good"…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Notetaking, English for Academic Purposes, Language of Instruction
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Dehua Zha; Dianzhi Liu – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigated successful EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students' learning strategies in Chinese universities and explored the classification system of English learning strategies, to guide EFL students how to learn English. A total of 24 successful English majors and non-English majors in Chinese universities were interviewed about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Cappellini, Marco; Hsu, Yu-Yin – ReCALL, 2022
Drawing on existing research with a holistic stance toward multimodal meaning-making, this paper takes an analytic approach to integrating eye-tracking data to study the perception and use of multimodality by teachers and learners. To illustrate this approach, we analyse two webconference tutoring sessions from a telecollaborative project…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Holistic Approach, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
Jee-Hee Kim; Tae-Hee Choi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
As English is recognised as an influential language in the globalised world and social and economic capital for individuals, Koreans put tremendous effort and financial resources into learning English, instigating a social malady called 'English fever.' The fever has recently infiltrated early childhood education, leading to the expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language)
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Diouani, Azz Eddine – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
This article explores the interplay between English language proficiency and social class. First, it discusses flaws in cognitive approaches to English language learning and applied linguistics. It then calls for the cultivation of a more holistic approach to learners' motivation and language achievement as the product of both micro and macro…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Yeojoo Yoon; Pool Ip Dong – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
This study explores the captivating world of toy unboxing videos as a space for emergent bilingual children to engage in translanguaging practices. Through the lens of translanguaging, which encourages the unrestricted use of full linguistic repertoires, this research examines the experiences of two five-year-old immigrant and emergent bilingual…
Descriptors: Play, Bilingualism, Toys, Second Language Learning
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Fraschini, Nicola – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
Learner emotions represent sudden, dynamic, and complex adaptations to the language classroom environment. Recent Second Language Acquisition research calls for a more holistic perspective in approaching classroom emotions, one that considers emotional variations between and across learners, and which foregrounds the interconnections among…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Q Methodology
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Lian Li; Jiehui Hu; Yu Dai; Ping Zhou; Wanhong Zhang – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
This paper proposes to use depth perception to represent raters' decision in holistic evaluation of ESL essays, as an alternative medium to conventional form of numerical scores. The researchers verified the new method's accuracy and inter/intra-rater reliability by inviting 24 ESL teachers to perform different representations when rating 60…
Descriptors: Essays, Holistic Approach, Writing Evaluation, Accuracy
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Franklin G. Talaue; Roozbeh Babolian Hendijani – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The research literature is rife with studies that explicate how novice academic writers face fears and experience anxieties when writing in English as a Second Language (ESL) contexts. However, many studies have failed to put forward a holistic approach to address the issue. This study fills in this gap by reporting how integrating language and…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Yimmy Alexander Hoyos Pipicano; María Fernanda Jaime Osorio – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
This article reports the results of a qualitative, community-based research study that aimed to analyse the incidence of community-based pedagogies on the development of local cultural awareness at a rural public school in Colombia. We designed a pedagogical intervention drawing on community-based pedagogies and blended learning. We collected data…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shakeela K. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2024
Life skills education is important for the holistic development of individuals, the progress of the country, and for navigating the complexities of the modern world. This study aimed to examine the status of life skills among secondary students. The sample consisted of 380 secondary students from Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka, India,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Daily Living Skills, Dravidian Languages, English (Second Language)
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