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Xinxin Li – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a global shift to a 'new normal' of online and hybrid learning, significantly affecting language education. This study investigates the impact of emergency remote teaching on language learners' anxiety, examining their preferences for teaching modes and the reasons behind them. Diverging from prior research…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Student Attitudes
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Aslan, Erhan; Thompson, Amy S. – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Foreign language learning in classroom settings has long been found to be associated with anxiety. Though it is known that sources of foreign language anxiety are varied, whether anxiety is related to learners' inherent beliefs about language learning is understudied. To this end, the present study examines the possible relationship between…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Halenko, Nicola; Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Studies that have measured pragmatic fluency in the form of planning time and speech rate, as indicators of processing ability, have confirmed that learners' processing ability and pragmatic knowledge are independent from each other. The present study is a longitudinal, developmental investigation which investigates whether the study abroad stay…
Descriptors: Japanese, Pragmatics, Language Fluency, Study Abroad
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Leeming, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Self-efficacy is a well-known individual difference variable within second language acquisition research (SLA), shown to have predictive validity in language learning contexts. Collective-efficacy (CE), a group level construct, has remained relatively untouched by researchers despite its potential importance in formal language learning contexts,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Wang, Tianyi; Liu, Yongcan – Language Learning Journal, 2020
The motivation to learn a third language (L3) has received increasing attention in research, especially with regard to how it evolves dynamically during the learning process. Underpinned by the L2 Motivational Self System [Dörnyei, Z. 2005. "The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition."…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Self Concept, Individual Differences, Student Motivation
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Suárez, Maria del Mar; Gesa, Ferran – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Video viewing can be a valuable resource to expose students to large quantities of input so they can improve their vocabulary and content comprehension. Most studies so far have used short clips and have not explored in much detail the effects of individual differences (IDs) such as aptitude, listening skills and vocabulary size. This paper aims…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Development, Television, Programming (Broadcast)