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Li, Chili; Zhou, Ting – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper, adopting questionnaire survey method, investigated 367 non-key local university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' demotivation to learn English. The collected data revealed that there were two main categories of demotivators: internal factors ("lack of intrinsic interest," "experience of failure and lack of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Önalan, Okan – English Language Teaching, 2018
Research on teacher cognition, which mainly focuses on identifying what teachers think, know and believe, is essential to understanding teachers' cognitive framework as it relates to the instructional choices they make. The aim of this study is to find out the beliefs of non-native speaker teachers of English on grammar instruction and to explain…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Mori, S.; Tanabe, Y. – English Language Teaching, 2015
160 non-English major students studying at a four-year university and 193 English major students studying at a career college of foreign language in Japan completed a questionnaire regarding instruction and instructor personality. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether the students' instructional and personality ratings predicted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Personality, Teacher Characteristics
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Du, Ning; Chen, Jianhua; Liu, Meihua – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study examined how undergraduate students from a prestigious Chinese university perceived the teaching and learning of English for general academic purposes (EGAP) reading and writing courses. Analyses of 951 questionnaires revealed that most participants generally (strongly) believed that learning general academic English was closely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Programs
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Alikhani, Mohsen; Bagheridoust, Esmaeil – English Language Teaching, 2017
The study investigated how group-dynamics instruction techniques of adaptable nature can be to the benefit of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners so as to develop and improve their willingness-to-communicate and speaking-ability in the long run. After analyzing the data via ANCOVA and EFA, the researcher selected 108 young Iranian male…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Group Dynamics, Student Attitudes
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Green, Kieran; Fujita, Junichi – English Language Teaching, 2016
Here is documented investigation to assess the motivational drivers of a group of Japanese, first-year, dental-university students taking part in compulsory EFL classes and to compare those motivational drivers with an investigation into the motivational drivers of a group of Japanese IT students. There was a clear difference between extrinsic and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Liu, Meihua; Ni, Huiliuqian – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper reports on the result of a study on Chinese university EFL learners' foreign language writing anxiety in terms of general pattern, effect and causes. 1174 first-year students answered the 26-item Foreign Language Writing Anxiety Scale (FLWAS) (Young, 1999) and took an English writing test, 18 of whom were invited for semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mahmoodarabi, Mahsa; Khodabakhsh, Mohammad Reza – English Language Teaching, 2015
Although critical pedagogy has brought about positive changes in the field of education by shifting from traditional pedagogy to emancipatory pedagogy, not much attention has been paid to the factors affecting teachers' beliefs of critical pedagogy and only few studies have been conducted to design reliable and valid instruments to study EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Critical Thinking
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Sichani, Elham Fallahian; Tabatabaei, Omid – English Language Teaching, 2015
Many researchers were interested in validity of the language proficiency tests in the previous decades. The present study aims to study the construct validity of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology Reading Comprehension module (MSRT) in the Iranian context. After administering a standard language proficiency test (OPT) 65…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Reading Tests, Statistical Analysis, Factor Analysis
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Seker, Meral; Dincer, Ayca – English Language Teaching, 2014
Feedback is one of the crucial elements in language learning and teaching. In second language writing context, the effectiveness of feedback becomes even more important as it has an impact on the whole process of language learning. To increase the effectiveness of feedback, a teacher is expected to use any possible mean(s) available to suit…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Semi Structured Interviews, Likert Scales
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Hemmatizad, Marzieh – English Language Teaching, 2015
The present study investigated de-motivation among Iranian secondary high school and university students with respect to gender, major, and level of education and explored students' experiences in overcoming de-motivation. Data were gathered from 485 participants who comprised 215 male and 270 female. A 35 Likert type item de-motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alrabai, Fakieh – English Language Teaching, 2014
Feelings of anxiety are commonly expressed by Saudi learners in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. These feelings typically exert detrimental effects on these learners' foreign language attainment. This paper reports on the findings of a large-scale study for which three data collection iterations were conducted over three years to…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Tai, Hung-Cheng – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study explored the effects of collaborative writing instruction on undergraduate nursing students' writing performance and self-efficacy beliefs within an online learning system. A single-group experimental study utilized two instruments, the NCEEC (National College Entrance Examination Center) writing grading criteria (the SRCT) and a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Fumin, Fang; Li, Zhang – English Language Teaching, 2012
Since 2007, the Ministry of Education of China has been promoting a shift from traditional teaching models to a new teaching model where students' autonomous learning skills can be enhanced. In particular, college students are encouraged to learn English free from the constraints of time or place. While learner autonomy has been perceived as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Personal Autonomy, Teaching Methods
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Park, Gi-Pyo – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study examined the validity of the SILL by performing a confirmatory factor analysis among 914 university students learning English in Korea. The results showed that all the fit indices including chi-square, RMSEA, CFI, and NFI used to test Oxford's two construct and six construct taxonomy of the SILL provided unacceptable fit to the data.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies
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