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'I Worry about Getting It Wrong and Looking Like a Silly Billy': Does Explicit Classroom-Based Strategy Intervention Change Pupils' Attitudes towards Speaking in the Modern Foreign Languages Classroom?
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Thompson, Nicholas Philip; Mutton, Trevor – Language Learning Journal, 2023
A number of factors among schoolchildren in England are currently contributing to poor attitudes towards speaking in the modern foreign languages (MFL) classroom. Although multiple explicit strategy-based instruction (SBI) intervention studies have appeared in recent years, very few studies have focused on its effect on oral skills and, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
Teachers' Accounts of Learners' Engagement and Disaffection in the Language Classroom
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Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Anna – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The concept of learner engagement, widely researched in educational psychology, has recently gained attention of language acquisition researchers (cf. Mercer, S. and Z. Dörnyei. 2020. "Engaging Students in Contemporary Classrooms." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Mercer, S. 2019. Language learner engagement: setting the scene. In…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Psychology
Investigating Collective-Efficacy in the Foreign Language Classroom
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Leeming, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Self-efficacy is a well-known individual difference variable within second language acquisition research (SLA), shown to have predictive validity in language learning contexts. Collective-efficacy (CE), a group level construct, has remained relatively untouched by researchers despite its potential importance in formal language learning contexts,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Changing Language Mindsets about Modern Languages: A School Intervention
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Lanvers, Ursula – Language Learning Journal, 2020
In the context of the UK language learning crisis, several studies have aimed to influence student attitude towards languages via school interventions, with mixed results. A six-session tacking diverse metalinguistic issues (e.g. cognitive benefits of language learning, world languages) was carried out in three secondary schools in England, using…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
A Longitudinal Comparative Study of the Use of Target Language in the MFL Classroom by Native and Non-Native Student Teachers
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Aberdeen, Helen – Language Learning Journal, 2018
One of the key topics on any Modern Languages Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) course in the United Kingdom is the hotly debated issue of target language (TL) use. When and why do teachers use the TL in delivering lessons and when and why do they code switch into the learners' language? Does their practice change over time? Does it…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction