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Ana Elizabeth Acuña-González; Claudio Heraldo Díaz-Larenas – HOW, 2025
Conducted in a French private school in Chile, this action research study aims to explore the contribution of video-based listening activities from the ESL video website in supporting the listening comprehension skills for specific information of a group of 18 fifth graders. The results of a pre- and post-intervention test used to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Listening Comprehension, Video Technology
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Al-Shdeifat, Zainab; Al-Jamal, Dina – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
This study examines how visual thinking may affect Jordanian female ninth-graders reading abilities. The design had an experimental feel about it. The study included 66 ninth-grade female students who were studying English as a foreign language (EFL). An instructional program was created and put into place, and a pre-post reading exam was created…
Descriptors: Visualization, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
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Cheng Zeng; Linda Fisher – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
Purpose: Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) apps such as Duolingo have great potential for promoting learners' motivation to learn a second language (L2). However, little research has investigated how this motivational impact takes place. Additionally, despite the flexibility of mobile learning, most existing studies are conducted in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Paola Mannarelli; Raquel Serrano – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Pop songs have been claimed to provide a noteworthy source of second language (L2) input. While listening to songs in English is one of the most commonly reported out-of-class activities among EFL learners, little research exists as to how different teaching approaches to the use of songs in the EFL class can enhance students' vocabulary learning.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Music, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Martin, Christopher – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: This present paper draws on a doctoral study which provides an innovative insight into the extent to which parents influence their child's motivation to learn a foreign language. Methodology: An exploratory methodology was adopted to approach this study from multiple angles, using a sequential mixed-methods research design. A…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Parent Influence, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students
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Nhlanhla Mpofu – TESOL Journal, 2024
In 2013, as a strategy to enhance academic performance, the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) published several English Across the Curriculum (EAC) manuals to guide in-service teachers who did not have prior knowledge of how to integrate the teaching of content subjects with language learning. The DBE introduced the EAC strategy as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chengchen Li; Li Wei; Xiaojun Lu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The study investigated the effect of task complexity (TC) on second language (L2) learners' affective responses and writing performance and how these were modulated by cognitive and affective individual difference (ID) factors. A total of 412 Chinese 8th-grade English-as-a-foreign-language learners completed a working memory (WM) test, a scale…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Foreign Countries
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Shen Qiao; Samuel Kai Wah Chu; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Morphological analysis is a form of problem solving to work out the meanings of unfamiliar words by applying knowledge of morphemes. It has emerged recently as an important predictor of reading comprehension. However, while gamification can potentially be used to teach this skill, few studies have examined its use. To address this, a…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Safoura Jahedizadeh; Abbas Khademorreza; Somayeh Sadat Sarvari – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Although language skills have gained unparalleled momentum in language education, there is a paucity of research on one of the most significant subskills: vocabulary. Due to the underestimation of an efficient method to learn foreign language vocabularies, scant research attention has been dedicated to exploring the best vocabulary learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
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Nantapit Pittayanantakul; Pilanut Phusawisot – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
Speaking skills are considered one of the most crucial skills in learning English as they lay the foundation for effective communication and language acquisition. Proficiency in speaking enables young learners to express themselves, convey ideas, and communicate effectively. This quasi-experimental research aims to investigate the effect of board…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Elvis Nizigama; Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar; Mohammad Javad Rezai – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
This mixed methods study compares L2 learning motivation of Burundi simultaneous learners of French, English and Kiswahili, mainly focusing on L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS). A total of 348 junior high school students participated in a 60-item questionnaire survey, and 12 of those learners participated in a follow-up semi-structured…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Lee, Ju Seong; Lu, Ying – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This study explores the relationship between the L2 Motivational Self System--namely, the ideal L2 self and the ought-to L2 self--and L2 Willingness to Communicate (L2 WTC) in the classroom (a typical place for English communication among EFL learners) and in the extramural digital setting (an emerging English communication channel increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Self Concept, Learning Motivation
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Kodai Kamino; Daniel Hooper – rEFLections, 2024
Secondary English education in Japan, despite widespread policy reform, has been identified as a context in which problems with learner motivation are commonplace and persistent. Numerous quantitative studies have highlighted student dissatisfaction with a range of pedagogical factors including a disproportionate focus on rote memorization for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gálvez, Juan Diego; Del Campo, Marcela – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This article reports the results of a study carried out at a public high school in Colombia whose objective was to design and determine how a reading comprehension module contributed to strengthening English literacy competence in sixth graders. The methodological framework entailed a basic outline of the action-research cycle. The qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, High School Students, English (Second Language)
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Chen Hsieh, Jun; Lee, Ju Seong – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
While recent years have witnessed increasing attention to technology-enhanced language learning, investigation regarding how technologies facilitate digital storytelling outcomes among middle school students in English-as-a-foreign-language contexts remains insufficiently explored. Studies concerning the effects of different presentation modes…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Outcomes of Education, Psychological Patterns, Academic Persistence
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