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Hongying Peng; Sake Jager; Wander Lowie – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Digital storytelling (DS) has increasingly been incorporated as a pedagogical tool to engage EFL learners for active language learning. However, little is known about how EFL learners make self-initiated use of multifarious resources available to them for engaging in the DS practice behaviourally, cognitively, affectively and socially. This…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Zhe – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The concept of learner engagement has traditionally been examined in the field of education and it has been found to be associated with positive educational outcomes. While several studies in second language acquisition have looked at learner engagement with corrective feedback, there is a dearth of research investigating its relevance to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Affective Behavior
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Ahmed, Anwar; Morgan, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Postmemory, the narrativised intergenerational transfer of often traumatic experiences, is a crucial component of multilingual identity negotiation. In this article, we focus specifically on the curricular interactions and personal and collective aspirations of multilingual students who use English for academic purposes. We situate our discussions…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Oshima, Ryoko; Harvey, Sharon – Language Learning Journal, 2017
Student attrition and falling tertiary education enrolments afflict languages education across the "inner circle" English speaking world. In the southern hemisphere, in New Zealand and Australia, Japanese has become one of the most successful languages of education. However, numbers of students are now declining. This paper examines why…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Liyanage, Indika; Bartlett, Brendan John – Language Learning Journal, 2012
Research on language learning strategies (LLS) has pointed to a significant association at a general level between learners' gender and their choice of LLS. To explore this generality further, we conducted a study on gender and strategy use with Sri Lankan learners (N = 886) of English as a second language (ESL) in five different learning…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Learning Strategies, Gender Differences
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Blanco, Maria; Guisado, Juan J. – Language Learning Journal, 2012
This article reports on a small-scale qualitative study aimed at exploring the listening process in a group of Spanish beginners in a UK higher education context. The specific aim of the study was to inform the development of materials for listening strategy awareness-raising activities. The exploration was focused on identifying (a) strategies…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening, Learning Strategies, Qualitative Research