Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 1 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 6 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 10 |
Descriptor
| Academic Achievement | 12 |
| Males | 12 |
| Second Language Instruction | 12 |
| English (Second Language) | 10 |
| Foreign Countries | 9 |
| Second Language Learning | 8 |
| Student Attitudes | 7 |
| Student Motivation | 4 |
| Learning Motivation | 3 |
| Predictor Variables | 3 |
| Teaching Methods | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 9 |
| Reports - Research | 8 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Dissertations/Theses | 1 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Reports - General | 1 |
Education Level
| Secondary Education | 5 |
| High Schools | 2 |
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Postsecondary Education | 2 |
| Adult Education | 1 |
| Early Childhood Education | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
| Grade 10 | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Iran | 2 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 |
| Algeria | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| China (Beijing) | 1 |
| Estonia | 1 |
| European Union | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| Iran (Tehran) | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Marlowe Crowne Social… | 1 |
| State Trait Anxiety Inventory | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkGhasemi, Farshad – School Mental Health, 2022
This study investigated learned helplessness (LH) experienced by male secondary students of the English language and examined the effects of a motivational program based on the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS). Primarily, we administered the Learned Helplessness Scale to 189 students in a public school in Tehran, along with the Student Behavior…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Males, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
Patra, Indrajit; Alazemi, Asmaa; Al-Jamal, Dina; Gheisari, Asma – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Although corrective feedback (CF) has been studied, more studies still need to be conducted on this variable to check its effects on language learning. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teachers' written and verbal CF during the formative assessment (FA) on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' academic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Formative Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Jingxuan Bi; Siros Izadpanah; Zohreh Mohammadi; Yasaman Mohammad Rezaei – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aims to investigate the impact of technology-based education (TBE) on the academic motivation (AM), academic perseverance (AP), and academic self-efficacy (ASE) of high school sophomore males. Technology has an important place in education in the modern digital age since it opens up new avenues for instruction and learning. Research is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Practices
Download full textLouiza, Belaid; Hanane, Sarnou – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Gender imbalance persists in developing countries in different fields. Education is one of the spaces in which gender imbalance continues to exist in Algeria, in terms of enrolment or achievement. This imbalance will unintentionally raise the issue of differentiation among genders at school. To this end, this research investigated the influence of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Males, Secondary School Students
Kim, Yoon-Kyoun; Kim, Tae-Young – English Teaching, 2018
This study examined the characteristics of male high school English learners' motivation and the relations between their motivation and achievement in English learning. A total of 334 Grade 10 students in a boys' high school participated in this study by completing a questionnaire survey on second language (L2) learning motivation and taking an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Males
Al-Hoorie, Ali H. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This paper investigates the attitudinal/motivational predictors of second language (L2) academic achievement. Young adult learners of English as a foreign language (N = 311) completed several self-report measures and the Single-Target Implicit Association Test. Examination of the motivational profiles of high and low achievers revealed that…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Social Desirability, Predictor Variables
Khrisat, Abdulhafeth A.; Mahmoud, Salameh Saleem – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study investigates the effect of ten teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) oriented features of mobile phones in the English language classroom on the achievement of foundation-year students in King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in General English. The study also explores students' attitudes towards this new method of teaching. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, English (Second Language)
Jodaei, Hojjat – Online Submission, 2012
This study investigated the effect of motivational factors on English achievement in an intensive English course. The participants consisted of 41 Iranian male military staff, with the age range from 21 to 28. The participants filled a translated and adapted version of the mini-Attiude Motivation Test Battery (a=0.70). Factor analysis of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Military Personnel, Young Adults
Naevdal, Folkvard – Computers & Education, 2007
This article investigates the relation between home computer use and performance in English at school. The sample consists of 656 tenth-class students (age 15-16) in upper-secondary schools in Bergen, Norway. Data collection took place in the spring of 2002 and was administrated by the county education office. After correcting for gender, subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Females, Males
Klebosits, Pia; Perrone, Beth – 1998
This report describes a program for implementing specific cooperative grouping patterns in order to increase students' academic performance. The targeted population consisted of junior high and high school students located in the northwest and southwest suburbs of a large metropolitan area. An instructional strategy in which both like-gender and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Females
Peer reviewedHarris, Vee – Language Learning Journal, 1998
Offering boys greater choice over what they learn may help address their underachievement in modern languages. However, they may not profit from this unless they are given explicit guidelines regarding how to go about their learning. The article discusses the effects of social and educational contexts, student motivation, learning strategies,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Males
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Almeida, Patrícia Albergaria, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This volume contains papers submitted to the 11th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 14-17 May 2013, and papers submitted to the 1st International Distance Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre "Scientific Cooperation,"…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Comparative Education, Global Approach
