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Noprival Noprival; Alfian Alfian; Iswandany Kaslan; Dion Ginanto – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Despite the existence of many studies on language learning strategies (LLS), little scholarly work reports the LLS used by multilingual foreign language learners. To fill this empirical gap, the present qualitative case study investigates how polyglots employed their strategies over their path of learning multiple foreign languages. We collected…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Timothy Doe – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Language learning activities involving time-pressured repetition of similar content have been shown to facilitate improvements in fluency. However, concerns have been voiced about whether these gains might be offset by reduced levels of grammatical accuracy. This descriptive study tracked the oral proficiency of 32 Japanese university students…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Min Ching Chen; Tak-Wai Chan; Yu Hsin Chen – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2024
Purpose: Podcasting is a new mobile technology application for language learning. Drawing upon the stimulus-organism-response model and the interest driven creator (IDC) theory from e-learning, this study aims to develop and test an integrative conceptual framework. This study investigates contextual and environmental stimuli effects (content…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Audio Equipment
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Zrinka Fišer; Luka Pongracic – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2025
Researchers have been investigating motivation to learn second (L2) and foreign (FL) languages for decades, starting with the socio-educational model, moving on to the multi-dimensional model of motivational variables, and currently incorporating the complex dynamic system theory (CDST). The study examined changes in Dörnyei's L2 Motivational…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
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Laufer, Batia; Vaisman, Esther Emma – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Extramural exposure, through activities such as watching TV, gaming, networking, and online reading, has become an important source of vocabulary acquisition in English as a foreign language, particularly when learners' first language (L1) has many cognates with English. Our study examined extramural vocabulary acquisition of 10th-grade L1…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Informal Education
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Sihan Zhou; Nathan Thomas – Language and Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) has burgeoned alongside two decades of L2 self-regulated learning research. In both areas, listening remains under-researched, longitudinal designs are under-employed, and in-depth studies are necessary to unpack learner development. In a context believed to initiate self-regulated learning, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vladimir Román Gutiérrez-Huancayo – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The present study aims to investigate how social media can influence the development of oral skills in 60 students from a higher education institution in Peru. In this regard, mixed-methods research was conducted, with pre and post-tests, to evaluate the before and after of implementing a program that involved uploading videos recorded by the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Oral Language, Psychological Patterns
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Pauwels, Paul – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
Deliberate vocabulary study has mostly been studied within a strictly experimental framework of learning and memorization. More ecologically valid investigations embedded in existing study contexts have been rare. This study fits into the latter paradigm, investigating how students attempted to learn 90 English words over a period of three weeks…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes
Alaa Mohammed Shakoori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current study investigates the use of alternative assessments in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in Saudi Arabia. While alternative assessments have been recently recognized as a prospective approach to assessing EFL learning, little research has examined how language learners perceive this approach to assessment in an EFL context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Elnaz Afsharmehr – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This qualitative study aimed to examine Iranian language teachers' mindsets about language learning and teaching, and the ways in which their mindsets influenced their educational practices. The participants of this study were 20 Iranian language teachers who taught general English courses at private language institutes in a city in central Iran.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Gamze Almacioglu; Fadime Yalcin Arslan – Teaching Education, 2024
Although there are many disagreements about its definition and how it should be applied, reflection is an important professional development tool in teacher education. If in-service teachers think in-depth about critical incidents and reflect on them, they can develop new understandings of the teaching and learning process. The study investigated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Ira Slaboda – TESL-EJ, 2024
Autonomous learning in EFL refers to learner involvement, reflection and target language use. Teachers play a vital role of mediators and facilitators in self-regulated method. Thus, their perception of self-regulated practices dictates their implementation of this approach. While research has predominantly focused on inadequate management of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Self Management, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Banat, Maysaa – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2022
Many EFL [English as Foreign Language] learners reach university unable to exercise control over their own learning in terms of setting goals, monitoring progress, evaluating activities, and organizing time and resources. To address this concern, an experimental research study was carried out in a Lebanese English medium university. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Writing Instruction
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Guangxiang Liu; Chaojun Ma; Jie Bao; Zhixin Liu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Utilizing a structural equation modeling approach, this article aims to examine the dynamics between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and Intercultural Competence (ICC). Altogether, 1490 Chinese college students from different types of universities in China answered the self-developed and validated IDLE-ICC questionnaire. The results…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Ketema Addis; Abiy Yigzaw; Ebabu Tefera – Cogent Education, 2024
Research on recasts has gotten increasing attention from SLA researchers ever since 1990s. However, the studies on the effectiveness of recasts had inconsistent findings and are still debatable in what way recasts facilitate L2 learning. This study aims to examine the effects of recasts on English question production by adopting a pretest,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Questioning Techniques, Preferences
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