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Richard L. Sparks; Abdullah Alamer – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although researchers have found strong relationships between first language (L1) skills and second language (L2) anxiety, less is known about how L1 skills in primary school impact L2 anxiety years after L1 has been acquired. Previous research lacked evidence for the mediating role of L2 aptitude and L2 achievement in the relationship. This study…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Elementary School Students
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Simona Floare Bora – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article intends to add to the rising discussion related to the employment of authentic plays and drama within a high school compulsory curriculum for enhancing learners' foreign language (L2) oral skills. In particular, it examines the pedagogical use of authentic contemporary plays for developing learners' L2 oral production in terms of (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, High School Seniors
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Sanghee Kang; YouJin Kim – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Although increasing evidence has demonstrated the benefits of mobile technology in diverse aspects of language learning, research on the use of mobiles in task-based instruction has been scarce. Particularly, there has been little research directly investigating predictors of the quality of mobile-assisted, video-making tasks. To fill the gap and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Michael Sadeghi; Mostafa Pourhaji – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Yen-Liang Lin – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which different pedagogical gestures contribute to learners' foreign or second language (L2) narrative recall, and further discussed how task complexity and task difficulty (i.e. working memory capacity or WMC) influence recall performance. Sixty-four adolescent learners, assigned to four different gesture…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Learning, Recall (Psychology)
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Cheng-Tai Li; Huei-Tse Hou; Liang-Hsuan Lee – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Promoting English as a foreign language (EFL) students' reading comprehension, improving their reading motivation, and reducing their anxiety have always been the focus of EFL researchers. Educational board games have gradually received attention from educators. Various studies have found that board game-based teaching can improve students'…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies
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Kaiqi Shao; Brian Parkinson – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Based on theories of emotion contagion and social appraisal in interpersonal affect transfer and the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the present study examined associations between students' perceptions of peer emotions and their own self-perceived emotions in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, English (Second Language), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
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Rawia Hayik – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study is situated within a male-dominated Palestinian-Israeli reality rife with issues of gender privilege. With a purpose to disrupt the status quo in my language classroom and positively affect students' beliefs towards gender injustices, I, as a teacher researcher, designed a unit on gender issues including a book set that would challenge…
Descriptors: Arabs, Sex Role, Reader Response, Oral Language
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Ali Derakhshan – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Studies examining culture representation in language textbooks have rarely adopted the semiotic approach, despite its potential for presenting and (re)creating cultural meanings at their various levels (i.e. cultural, intercultural, multicultural, and transcultural) in the co-instantiations of texts, tasks, and images. To address this issue, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Yoon-Kyoung Kim; Tae-Young Kim – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study aims to enhance second language (L2) learners' motivation and facilitate successful L2 learning by using motivational languaging, an intervention that encourages learners to reflect on, and externalize, their L2-speaking, competent future self-concepts by writing or speaking about them. Two types of effective languaging activities were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, Grade 10, High School Students
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Calafato, Raees; Gudim, Freda – Language Teaching Research, 2022
In light of the growing importance placed by states on the use of authentic materials in foreign language education programs, this study explored the literary content found in the 18 English, French, and German ministry-approved language textbooks used in upper-secondary schools in Russia. The study identified 150 literary texts, following which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Hyejin Cho; YouJin Kim – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Although digital multimodal composing (DMC) is receiving increasing attention in language classrooms, the extent to which it contributes to students' writing practices is controversial. In order to understand the affordances of DMC compared to traditional monomodal writing in school contexts, it is pertinent to compare DMC and traditional writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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Katalin Fenyvesi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study explores what young Danish learners found anxiety-provoking or difficult in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Participants (n = 32) were early and later starters (ages 8 years vs. 10 years) at two primary schools where children were not assessed in English. The qualitative inquiry aimed to examine what differences…
Descriptors: Grade 9, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ibtihal Assaly; Abdelnaser Jabarin – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) have been an integral part of the English language curriculum in the Israeli school system since 2013, when questions that needed HOTS were added to the matriculation exams in all modules. Teachers subsequently have been responsible for integrating such questions into their teaching. The study aims to…
Descriptors: Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fernández-García, Antonio; Fonseca-Mora, M. Carmen – Language Teaching Research, 2022
One of the main reasons for studying a foreign language is communicating with others, but many students do not feel confidently enough when trying to develop their speaking skills. Among adolescents' frequent activities are that of listening to music while paying attention to song lyrics. We hypothesize that these musical experiences could…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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