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Jean-Marc Dewaele; Kazuya Saito – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
The current study focuses on the effect of the target language on learner emotions and attitudes/motivation. More specifically, it investigates whether the status and prestige of English results in more positive learner emotions and attitudes/motivation compared to less prestigious languages other than English (LOTE). Statistical analyses of a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learner Engagement
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Yuksel, Dogan; Soruç, Adem; Horzum, Baris; McKinley, Jim – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study focuses on the predictive power of linguistic (i.e., general English proficiency; identified simply as "proficiency" in this paper) and non-linguistic (i.e., language learning anxiety and self-regulation) factors on the academic success of English medium instruction (EMI) students studying in engineering and social sciences…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Altay, Mehmet; Curle, Samantha; Yuksel, Dogan; Soruç, Adem – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This article reports a quantitative study that investigated academic achievement in English medium instruction (EMI) courses at a public university in Turkey. Student test score data on EMI and Turkish medium instruction (TMI) courses as well as general English proficiency scores were collected in two academic divisions: the mathematical,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Sybille Heinzmann; Zeynep Köylü; Kristina Ehrsam – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This paper presents insights from two interview studies with the aim of shedding light on the learning potential of studying abroad in an area where English is used as a lingua franca. The majority of previous research on study abroad focuses on students' experiences of studying abroad in target-language regions, for example learners of English…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mahawaha, Nadee; Rassool, Romola – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Although bilingual education has been offered in some schools of Sri Lanka since 2001, primary and secondary school education has been conducted mainly in the first language (L1), that is, Sinhala/Tamil. As a result, most students sit for the General Certificate of Education -- Advanced Level (GCE (A/L) examination, which determines university…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Native Language, Dravidian Languages
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Sánchez-Pérez, María del Mar – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study analyzes the influence of English medium instruction (EMI) on student English writing development in a Spanish undergraduate context, a language skill that remains underexplored in EMI research at tertiary level. Through a longitudinal pre- and post-test method, it explores the writing progress of EMI engineering students as compared to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Language of Instruction, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)
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Zhou, Sihan; Thompson, Gene – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Listening to academic content in English medium instruction (EMI) classrooms at university can be a demanding task for students who transition from first language (L1) instructed secondary schools. This longitudinal mixed methods study analyzes data from 316 students collected at the beginning, midterm, and the end of their first semester after…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Longitudinal Studies, English for Academic Purposes
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Ben Hammou, Salah; Kesbi, Abdelaziz – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The present study explored a small-scale English medium instruction (EMI) initiative in Moroccan secondary schools, which is part of a top-down multilingual policy based on teaching science subjects through foreign languages, namely French, English, and Spanish. 18 secondary EMI teachers of math, physics and life and earth sciences were…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Science Instruction
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Hong, Jiye – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
To date, very limited research interest has been given to the strategies English medium instruction (EMI) teachers or lecturers deploy to provide corrective feedback (CF) on the language use to their students during class interaction. In other words, when EMI teachers incidentally focus on students' problematic language use, how do they correct it…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nguyen, An – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
One key objective of English medium instruction (EMI) programs in non-Anglophone countries is to improve students' English skills in both academic and professional environments. Despite the high cost and the popularity of the program policy, there remains a lack of empirical studies on the link between attending an EMI program and students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Socioeconomic Influences
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Krulatz, Anna; Dixon, Tülay – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The present paper describes a contrastive study of interlanguage refusal strategies employed by Korean and Norwegian learners of English as an additional language. The data were collected from multilingual first-year students at an American university in South Korea and in an English-medium program at a Norwegian university by means of an online…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lu, Cailing; Boers, Frank; Coxhead, Averil – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study explores English for specific purposes learners' understanding of technical words in a previously-developed technical word list in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principal aim was to estimate what kind of technical terms pose problems to TCM learners and might therefore merit special attention in instruction. Of particular…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Banegas, Dario Luis; Poole, Paige Michael; Corrales, Kathleen A. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Bilingual education, usually a community's L1 and English continues spreading geographically and across educational systems worldwide. With this expansion, the development of bilingual education approaches is under constant scrutiny. One recent approach is content and language integrated learning (CLIL). European in origin, CLIL can be viewed as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kaur, Kashmir – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
In the current landscape of higher education in the UK, international students play a key role. It is an environment in which they not only cross borders physically but also transition through various identities as they develop their professional and linguistic confidence and skills to fully access and contribute to their programme of study and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Students, Self Concept, Study Abroad
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Lanteigne, Betty – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Jumbled sentence items in language assessment have been criticized by some authors as inauthentic. However, unscrambling jumbled sentences is a common occurrence in real-world communication in English as a lingua franca. Naturalistic inquiry identified 54 instances of jumbled sentence use in daily life in Dubai/Sharjah, where English is widely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Test Items, Language Tests
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