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Artamonova, Tatiana – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This article describes the development of a new questionnaire for assessing L2 learners' language attitudes. Drawing on theoretical work in the fields of social psychology and applied linguistics, the author reviewed the concept of (language) attitudes and contrasted them with the concept of (language) motivation. This thorough literature review,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cai, Shengrong; Zhu, Wei – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
This study investigated the impact of an online learning community project on university students' motivation in learning Chinese as a foreign language. A newly proposed second language (L2) motivation theory--the L2 motivational self system (Dornyei, 2005, 2009)--guided this study. A concurrent transformative mixed-methods design was employed to…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
White, Kelsey D. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Scholars and professional organizations have described participation in target language (TL) communities as one of the primary aims of language learning, but little work has been done to determine how students define those communities or envision their own involvement within them. This exploratory study drew on questionnaire and interview data to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Questionnaires, Interviews
Martinsen, Rob A.; Alvord, Scott M.; Tanner, Joshua – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
Studies have examined various factors that affect pronunciation including phonetic context, style variation, first language transfer, and experience abroad. A plethora of research has also linked motivation to higher levels of proficiency in the second language. The present study uses native speaker ratings and multiple regression analysis to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
Regalla, Michele; Peker, Hilal – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined a teacher's prompting strategies and the use of dynamic assessment (DA) in an inclusive prekindergarten French program. Prior research has shown that DA is an effective method to assess both foreign language learning and first language development for typically developing students and for students with special needs, as well as…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Needs Assessment, Student Needs, Special Needs Students
Dolosic, Haley N.; Brantmeier, Cindy; Strube, Michael; Hogrebe, Mark C. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
With 24 adolescent students enrolled in a French language summer camp, the present study examines the relationship between self-assessment and oral production in French, interpreting results through a framework of individual learning variables. Participants were surrounded by French inside and outside the classroom. Self-assessment was measured…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Summer Programs, Adolescents
Mori, Yoshiko; Calder, Toshiko M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study investigated the role of parental support and selected family variables in the first (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary development of Japanese heritage language (JHL) high school students in the United States. Eighty-two JHL students ages 15-18 from eight hoshuukoo (i.e., supplementary academic schools for Japanese-speaking…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Family Characteristics, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Grim, Frederique – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
Many college students feel that learning a second language (L2) is necessary to bring value to their future. However, many also feel that during their years of learning an L2, the only experience they acquire starts when they enter the classroom and stops when they leave it. This view may bring a lack of engagement in learning the L2. Research has…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Service Learning, French
Isabelli-García, Christina; Lacorte, Manel – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Second language acquisition research on the immersion context has focused primarily on study abroad, revealing the extent to which that context promotes learners' developing linguistic and intercultural competence. However, little research has examined linguistic development in intensive, domestic immersion contexts. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Surveys, Questionnaires, Accuracy
Ducate, Lara C.; Anderson, Lara Lomicka; Moreno, Nina – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
With the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 tools, it only follows that these technologies are adapted to our foreign language classroom practices. Research shows their numerous advantages as participatory tools that foster communication and collaboration. This study focuses on one such tool, the wiki, and describes the implementation of three…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
Hernandez, Todd A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study investigates how motivation and interaction shape the speaking proficiency of study abroad (SA) and classroom or at home (AH) language learners. The author administered a motivation questionnaire, language contact profile, and pretest and posttest simulated oral proficiency interview. The data reveal that SA and AH students had similar…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
We explore the relationship between accentedness and intelligibility, and investigate how listeners' beliefs about nonnative speech interact with their accentedness and intelligibility judgments. Native German speakers and native English learners of German produced German sentences, which were presented to 12 native German speakers in accentedness…
Descriptors: Sentences, Second Language Learning, German, Pronunciation
Davin, Kristin J.; Rempert, Tania A.; Hammerand, Amy A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
The present study reports data from a large-scale foreign language proficiency assessment to explore trends across a large urban school district. These data were used in conjunction with data from teacher and student questionnaires to make recommendations for foreign language programs across the district. This evaluation process resulted in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Drewelow, Isabelle – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
Learning a foreign language promotes new ways of seeing the world and the self in relation to it (Gee, 1996), making practices and perspectives underlined through the acquisition of vocabulary and grammatical structures available for appropriation (Bakhtin, 1981; Kramsch, 1993, 2009). Using a combination of interviews and self-reported…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Interviews, Questionnaires, Cultural Awareness
Hayashi, Atsuko – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This study compares student preconceptions and expectations of Japanese language learning from studies conducted in 1989 and 2004. Over the years, student interests and pedagogical approaches have changed. However, the changes do not reflect on the student preconceptions and expectations. They still believe in traditional approaches to language…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Interests, Learning Motivation, Japanese