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Kruk, Mariusz – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The first part of the paper offers the characteristics of the affective variables of willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom as located within the framework of the complex dynamic systems. The second part aims to discuss the results of a study intended to examine the effect of "Second Life" on two English…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Student Motivation, Attention Control
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Sachi Oshima – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a multimodal approach in which an additional camera was used to deliver online explicit reading strategy instruction. Targeting 20 Japanese beginner-level EFL college students taking online Zoom lessons during one academic semester, two research questions were investigated: (a) To what…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Student Attitudes
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Shih, Hui-chia Judy; Huang, Sheng-hui Cindy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
This study examines EFL students' metacognitive strategy use in a university flipped classroom and the underlying factors of metacognitive strategy use. The participants in our study were students enrolled in an elective English course at a university in Taiwan, where they had to watch online course videos outside of class and participate in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Hlas, Anne Cummings; Neyers, Krista; Molitor, Sarah – Language Teaching Research, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate student attention lapses in second language classrooms at the university level. In 17 classes, 274 undergraduate students reported the frequency and duration of their attention lapses during 50- and 75-minute classes at various levels. Students' beliefs regarding their attention and the pedagogical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Attention Control, Teaching Methods
Tejada Reyes, Venecia – Online Submission, 2018
The objective of this study is to analyze the Attention Deficit and the Low Performance in the area of English in Children of the Initial Level in the Educational Institution Martina Vizcaino La Raiz, in the Municipality of Maimon, during the first semester of 2018. The instrument was a way to determine their attention deficit and the low…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Low Achievement, Underachievement, Foreign Countries
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Çelik, Sercan; Baran, Evrim – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2022
The educational potentials of using student response systems (SRSs) as emerging mobile technologies in higher education classrooms are increasing. The need to understand and integrate these technologies into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts has become evident. This mixed-methods study aimed at investigating the effects of an…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hyun, Joo-Eun; Lee, Jin-Hwa – English Teaching, 2018
This study investigated whether task complexity may affect L2 speaking performance as predicted by the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2011), and whether the effect of task complexity may interact with individual differences in working memory capacity. A total of twenty Korean advanced-level EFL learners performed two separate picture description…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Task Analysis, Correlation