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Troy L. Cox; Gregory L. Thompson; Steven S. Stokes – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This study investigated the differences between the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview - Computer (OPIc) among Spanish learners at a U.S. university. Participants (N = 154) were randomly assigned to take both tests in a counterbalanced order to mitigate test order effects. Data were analyzed using an…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Interviews, Computer Uses in Education
Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. dela Cruz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As plurilingual/multilingual research advances, factors that contribute to or hinder individual's flexible language use are still underexplored. Questions such as "Why do some people identify as plurilingual and pluricultural while others do not?" and "What factors contribute to high levels of plurilingual and pluricultural…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics
Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As part of its ambitious Belt and Road initiative, the Chinese government, cognizant of the fact that establishing strong people-to-people bonds locally, regionally, and internationally will be key to the initiative's success and that languages will play a pivotal role in facilitating this, has called for the diversification of language programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
García-Tejada, Aída; Cuza, Alejandro; Lustres Alonso, Eduardo Gerardo – Second Language Research, 2023
Previous studies in the acquisition of clitic se in Spanish have focused on the syntactic processes needed to perform detransitivization. However, current approaches on event structure reveal that "se" encodes aspectual information which is crucial for its acquisition. We examine the use, intuition and interpretation of the aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Language Research, Monolingualism
Furkan Sevket Kir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which racialisation shapes EFL learners' conceptualizations of the 'native speaker' construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They were assigned to either the…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Jue Wang; Xin Jiang; Baoguo Chen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The age at which people acquire a word influences word recognition, known as the age of acquisition (AoA) effect. In the first language (L1), AoA effects are widely found in various languages and experimental tasks. Arbitrary Mapping Hypothesis proposes that AoA effects reflect the loss of network plasticity during the learning of mappings between…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sarac, Merve; Loken, Eric – International Journal of Testing, 2023
This study is an exploratory analysis of examinee behavior in a large-scale language proficiency test. Despite a number-right scoring system with no penalty for guessing, we found that 16% of examinees omitted at least one answer and that women were more likely than men to omit answers. Item-response theory analyses treating the omitted responses…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Jianting Pei; Cavin F. Pamintuan – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
English, as an international language of communication, plays a crucial role in the development of global economic exchanges. In China, where English serves as a second language, the improvement of college students' English language speaking proficiency faces numerous challenges due to the lack of authentic English communication environments.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
Chen, Shukun; Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Yu, Wei – SAGE Open, 2022
Adopting the framework of projection from Systemic Functional Linguistics, the present study explored the deployment of projection in summary writing by three levels of college EFL learners from a university in mainland China. Data were collected from one summary writing by three classes of different levels' learners in an English program from a…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Anna Stepanovna Borisova; Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova; Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva; Muhammad Arif Soomro – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
The present study investigates the correlations between socio-biographical variables (such as age, gender, years of studying English language, and educational environment) and foreign language anxiety learning. The study also compares the manifestation of foreign language anxiety among Chinese and Russian university students. A mixed-method of…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Age Differences
Xi Yan – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This study employs an open-ended questionnaire survey and online semi-structured interviews to explore English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China. The findings show that more than half of the students report having an English name and nearly half of the students choose their own English names. Students mainly use their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Lan Anh Thuy Nguyen; Anita Habók – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This study investigates the relationship between attitudinal and non-attitudinal variables that impact digital technology use by EFL students in Vietnam. An adapted questionnaire was administered to 1,005 students from different tertiary courses. The results showed that students have a positive attitude to the use of technology and sometimes apply…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Pilar Safont – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present study focuses on email communication in the multilingual university setting. Previous studies dealing with similar settings point to the lack of politeness markers in students' email messages [Bjorge, A. (2007). Power distance in English lingua franca email communication. "International Journal of Applied Linguistics", 17(1),…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Kulsar, Steven T.; Seal, Brenda C. – Sign Language Studies, 2022
D/deaf children of Deaf parents reportedly begin learning finger-spelling as young as thirteen months old, but deaf children born to hearing, nonsigning parents lack natural access to the native (spoken) language of their families, often exhibiting later language development. Forty-four deaf adults participated in a fingerspelling test of…
Descriptors: Finger Spelling, Accuracy, Adults, American Sign Language
Stanislaw Fel; Jaroslaw Kozak – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
The present paper aims to determine and compare religiosity levels in university students (n = 2098) from the United Kingdom (n = 1010) and Poland and to attempt an explanation of how nationality differences in the cultural context and affiliations with different religious traditions influence their religiosity. The current global trends regarding…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Religion, Foreign Countries