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Muhannad Abuzaid; Carol Griffiths – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This case study, conducted at a Palestinian university, explored the language learning strategies employed by learners of English as a foreign language and the relationship with proficiency. Furthermore, since gender is often considered a major variable in learning success in some areas of the world, the study wished to explore the role of gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Robert Weekly; Shih-Ching Picucci-Huang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The requirement for Chinese students to adopt an English name for the English language classroom remains a relic of a previous era, which is not only accepted but also desirable by some. This study reports on 357 Chinese English language students' relationship with their English names in terms of the concepts of identity, agency and investment,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Personal Autonomy, Naming, English Language Learners
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Nghi Tin Tran; Thang Tat Nguyen; Hai Hong Pham – rEFLections, 2024
The current study aimed to gain insight into the nuanced challenges that Vietnamese learners encountered due to the interference of their native linguistic structures and norms. This qualitative study explored the experiences of Vietnamese learners in acquiring English, focusing on the influence of negative L1 transfer. This study focused on the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Vietnamese, English (Second Language)
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Sowell, Jimalee; McCaughey, Kevin – English Teaching Forum, 2023
The purpose of this article is to offer suggestions teacher trainers might implement to improve their understanding of the local teachers they work with as well as ways of knowing the self and how the self interfaces with local contexts. The first part of the article focuses on ways a teacher trainer can better understand the needs of the local…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Faculty Development, Self Concept, Teacher Educators
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Li, Jie; Zou, Weicheng – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
In spite of the fact that task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been extensively researched in both experimental and authentic contexts, there is a scarcity of research on TBLT in the area of pre-service teaching. Our current study seeks to help fill this gap via the examination of the attitudes of thirty-nine pre-service teachers -- after an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Handong Li; Sook Jhee Yoon – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
With the wide adoption of the blended approach by language practitioners, blended language learning (BLL) has developed into a new area in applied linguistics. Much research has been conducted on pedagogical innovation, technological tools, users' perceptions and the creation of the BLL environment. Concerning the establishment of a BLL…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, College Second Language Programs, Cultural Influences
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Kristen Michelson; James F. Lee; Mourad Abdennebi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Recent scholarship in multiliteracies-oriented pedagogies has advocated for greater attention to fostering 'textual thinking', understood as forms of literacy that consider the complexities of semiotic choices made by authors, and their underlying meanings, rhetorical purposes, and cultural contexts. This kind of engagement with texts calls upon…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Semiotics
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Liu, Jian; Rutledge, David – English Language Teaching, 2020
The goal of pre-service teacher (PST) programs is to provide students with pragmatic working experience and pedagogy that they need for becoming eligible teachers. In a bilingual classroom, however, some perspectives about second language learning (SLL) held by PSTs are too arbitrary. To assist PSTs in developing concepts of second language…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Chen, Wen; Liu, Guo-qiang – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2021
The study is designed to examine the effectiveness of corrective feedback (CF) from Chinese second language (L2) teachers to their students in mainland China. Investigations into how CF works were carried out based on three aspects: teachers' perceptions of CF effectiveness, factors affecting it, and their interplay. An ecological approach--the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), College Faculty
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Jonathan Bryce; Shirmeena Faheem; Aniyath Ali; Aishath Shina – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Language plays a vital role in everyday life, and language learners should make the most out of their basic education in order to use language skills to function in their future working environment. Writing is a skill used for writing letters, writing reports, news, and official documents. It is important for second language learners to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
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Alsulami, Yusuf Ahmad K. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper evaluates a textbook called "Traveller 4" that is used in the second grade of secondary schools in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, considering its general appearance and design, objectives, content, social and cultural contexts, tasks and activities, and usefulness for developing language skills. The paper also reviews the…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Nooshin Shakiba; Karyn Stapleton – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Swearing uses language forms that are taboo and potentially offensive. These are often used for emotional expression. Multilingual research shows that because the first language retains most emotional force (Dewaele [2004]. "The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals." "Journal of Multilingual…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Language Usage
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Aslan, Fehime – Journal of English as an International Language, 2021
The ownership of English has been hotly debated for a long time by researchers in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). World Englishes expand the ownership of English from Inner Circle countries to Outer and Expanding Circle countries based on Kachru's (1985) Three Circle Model. In light of this, it can be claimed that World Englishes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Language Teachers
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Zhao, Huahui; Zhao, Beibei – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The current assessment in language classrooms prevailingly utilizes the criteria provided by instructors, regarding learners as passive recipients of assessment. The current study drew upon sustainable assessment and the community of practice to highlight the importance of involving learners in co-constructing the assessment criteria and argued…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Alignment (Education)
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Gao, Xuesong; Lv, Leining – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
This article reports on the motivations of Chinese learners to learn Japanese in light of increasing diplomatic tensions between China and Japan over the last three decades. In the study, 35 Chinese learners of Japanese were selected, according to the time they began learning, to examine their motivations to learn Japanese as mediated by shifting…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Chinese, Japanese, Second Language Learning
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