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Khadijeh Aqajani Delavar; Mohammad R. Hashemi; Mohammad Nabi Karimi – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2025
While research on language teachers' engagement in action research (AR) has received a surge of attention, the influence of AR programs on English language teacher agency remains underexamined. This qualitative study explored how ten English language teachers' perceptions of their agency changed as they participated in an action research…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Professional Autonomy
Lotta Kardel; Timo Ehmke; Svenja Lemmrich – Language Awareness, 2025
Teachers of all subjects and grades must remain aware of the linguistic and cultural diversity among their students, as second language learners often experience educational disadvantages. Therefore, (pre-service) teachers must acquire pedagogical language knowledge and skills in linguistically responsive teaching (LRT), and develop positive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Longitudinal Studies
Emergency Remote Language Learning: Student Perspectives of L2 Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dizon, Gilbert; Thanyawatpokin, Benjamin – JALT CALL Journal, 2021
As teachers and students have abruptly shifted from traditional classroom-based learning to online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to evaluate the attitudes of learners towards remote foreign language learning, particularly among Japanese students who often have little to no experience with the learning method. Therefore, the…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Distance Education, Second Language Learning, COVID-19
Sharona Moskowitz; Jean-Marc Dewaele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Intellectual humility (IH) remains a relatively novel concept, though past research indicates a relationship to open-mindedness, lower propensity towards political bias and amenability to engage with opposing viewpoints. Intellectual humility has shown mixed effects on foreign language learning (Moskowitz & Dewaele [2020]. The role of…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Hebrew, Arabic, Perspective Taking
Chung, Edsoulla – SAGE Open, 2022
Despite its significance, the relationship between changes in teachers' beliefs regarding specific aspects of language learning and teaching, and the developmental processes of such beliefs in relation to teacher reflection has remained under-researched. Accordingly, this paper reports the results of a case study that examined how two English…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Teacher Attitudes, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Qiong Bai; Benjamin H. Nam; Alexander Scott English – Educational Review, 2024
This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors and acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic factors influencing their acculturative stressors in the host group…
Descriptors: Acculturation, English, Native Language, Language Attitudes
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
Iwata, Akira – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study aims to investigate the influence of an English as a foreign language college extensive reading program on different types of motivation to study English within the framework of Self-Determination Theory in order to identify and clarify students' motivational changes. Identical questionnaires were administered to a group of nonEnglish…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hajar, Anas – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This paper explores Arab postgraduate students' situated experiences and their actual and dynamic use of learning strategies at a UK university. The qualitative data collected from a written narrative and five subsequent rounds of individual semi-structured interviews suggest that most participants initially clung to their 'aschematic' future…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Learning Strategies, Arabs, Foreign Countries
Kylah Clark-Goff; Zohreh R. Eslami; Keith M. Graham – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2020
Increasing numbers of English language learners (ELLs) are resulting in mainstream teachers across the United States taking on the responsibility of teaching ELLs. This demands the preparation of all teachers to teach this linguistically diverse student body. Yet adequate preparation of these educators depends on insight into the beliefs that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change
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
Mateus, Catalina Herrera; González, Ángela María Gamboa; Alzate, Lady Viviana Cuervo; Lalle, Catalina de los Ángeles – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Pre-service English teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching delineate how they plan, design, and perform in the classroom. The objective of this article is to report pre-service teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching and how those beliefs continued, changed, or disappeared once pre-service teachers faced English classes. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Education Programs
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
Villalobos-Buehner, Maria – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
The goals of this research were twofold. First, to measure changes in cultural awareness levels between two groups of students in their third semester of a Spanish class. The trained group formed by university students from the USA collaborated with another group of university students from Colombia using Skype. The second aim was to identify…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication
Ren, Junhong; Wang, Na – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study investigates students' motivation in college English learning under production-oriented approach by means of a questionnaire. Forty students in their first-year study participated in this survey. They came from four different disciplines: electronic engineering, automatic engineering, mechanic engineering and power engineering. They…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Change