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Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Karma Sonam Rigdel; Thinley Wangdi – TESL-EJ, 2024
The growing body of research on foreign language emotion (FLEM) suggests a need for further studies on the sources and hierarchy of FLEM, particularly through the lens of positive psychology. This insight would enable instructors to prioritize their interventions more effectively, thereby enhancing the emotional experiences of foreign language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Shruti Gadkari; Jeni Dulek – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2023
Occupational therapy (OT) graduate students may demonstrate behaviors in their learning that faculty perceive as unprofessional or resistant. Faculty often attribute these behaviors to personality traits or other qualities residing within the student rather than seeing them as a result of a confluence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, as Tolman…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Graduate Students, Resistance (Psychology), Behavior Problems
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Meinking, Kristina A.; Hall, Eric E. – College Teaching, 2020
As strategies for co-creation in teaching and learning, the democratic classroom and students-as-partners pedagogies seek to empower students by equally distributing the responsibilities of decision-making across the students and instructors in a class. In this essay, we describe and analyze how students in a second-year interdisciplinary seminar…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Democracy, Student Empowerment, Teacher Student Relationship
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Li, Chili; Tang, Lianhua; Zhang, Shuang – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs), as the latest theoretical development of second language (L2) motivation research, warrant more empirical investigations. In light of this, the present paper reports the results of a questionnaire survey on the features of DMCs among 245 English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners at a technological…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alghasab, Maha Bader – English Language Teaching, 2020
The flipped classroom is an instructional strategy that encourages students to undertake prior preparation for lessons, in particular through the use of online materials provided by their teachers. Empirical studies of the language classroom have supported the effectiveness of this strategy for language development. However, only a limited number…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Blended Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Ahmed, Mumtaz; Aftab, Maria; Yaqoob, Humaira – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The main purpose of this descriptive research is to explore the fact that why students are less motivated towards English language learning at undergraduate level. It also throws light upon the very facts of motivation with regard to the factors like student-teacher relationship, class room environment, self esteem or self respect, and willingness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
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Coyle, Do – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This study is part of longitudinal research undertaken in 11 secondary schools across two countries, based in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms with 12-15 year olds. The aim was to listen to learners, provide them with a "voice" to analyse their perceptions of "successful learning" and to undertake participatory research…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Educational Change
Julkunen, Kyosti – 1992
A study in Finland investigated the relationship of two general aspects of student motivation for second language learning (preference for challenge and curiosity) and motivation specific to the learning situation. Subjects were 292 sixth-graders and 301 eighth-graders, who performed two open and two closed English vocabulary tasks in two…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Beuscher, Shonna; Keuer, Lynn; Muehlich, Sharon; Tyra, Carol – 1997
This action research project implemented and evaluated an intervention for improving student engagement in the learning process. The targeted population consisted of first, third, and fifth grade students in a small, traditional, middle class community, located in central Illinois. Evidence of non-engaged behaviors were documented from teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning
Erb, Michelle – 1996
Making students responsible for their own learning in biology is a national issue. The goal of this Master's project was to increase students' responsibility for their own learning in order to increase academic output and decrease the incidence of inappropriate behavior. The targeted population consisted of sophomore high school students in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Biology, Class Size