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Mu-Hsuan Chou – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Language mindsets influence learners' behavior, motivation, and strategic approaches to studying a language. These mindsets impact how learners perceive control and value in achievement activities, which, in turn, affect their achievement emotions and ultimately their learning strategies and academic performance. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
Melissa Venegas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research investigated how a Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy (CriSoLL) approach to authentic materials supports student literacy in a mixed Spanish heritage language (SHL) and additional language (L2) Spanish intermediate course at the university level. Using a qualitative approach (Cho, 2018; Esposito & Evans-Winters, 2021)…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Literacy, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Hilal Günes – Online Submission, 2025
This study aimed to (a) explore the perceived levels of English language self-efficacy, enjoyment, and anxiety among EFL learners and (b) test a hypothesized model investigating their interrelations and potential predictive effects on English Language Achievement (ELA). Using a quantitative, non-experimental correlational design, data were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Weiqi Yu; Wen Xu – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper provides a bottom-up way of approaching China's macro-level initiative in the regions of Asia and examines the language ideologies and linguistic entrepreneurship of international students as an agentive response to China's rise. Using data gathered via semi-structured interviews, we present the narratives of 26 Asian international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Asians, Chinese
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Habi Septiawan; Bambang Setiyadi; Mahpul; Muhammad Sukirlan; Khairun Nisa – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
To date there have been a lot of currently emerging studies focusing on English speaking anxiety experienced by Indonesian university students. Nevertheless, particularly the studies have not investigated university students in Lampung region as the new context. This study aims to describe the level, attitude and perception, and the causes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Mohammad Naghavian – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Second language (L2) learners hold different learning beliefs that influence their interpretation of classroom experiences and their L2 learning process. Developing a thorough understanding of such beliefs is therefore imperative. This article reports the representations of Iranian English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' beliefs about L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
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Rui Yuan; Xuyan Qiu; Chuang Wang; Tiefu Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Informed by a mixed methods research design, the study investigates the interrelations between students' attitudes toward English learning, English-medium instruction (EMI), and the use of their first language (i.e. code-switching) in relation to a range of biographic and contextual factors in their situated EMI programmes. The quantitative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Maraf, Baya; Vanci Osam, Ulker – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
The present study provides an insight into foreign language policy endeavour in Algeria. It responds to the concept of an English 'tidal wave' (Spolsky [2004]. "Language policy." Cambridge University Press), and uses Spolsky's ([2009]. "Language management." Cambridge University Press) social approach and Djité's ([1994].…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Planning
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Yanyan Wang; Larisa Nikitina – SAGE Open, 2024
Studies on epistemic beliefs in L2 research are in a nascent stage. Acknowledging deeply rooted and complex intersections between prevalent cultural norms within a society, individually held beliefs, and mutually shared opinions among members of a social group, this Q methodological study explored Chinese university students' rationales for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Haya Fayyad Abuhussein; Rania Mohammad Qassrawi; Sami Shaath – Cogent Education, 2023
Affective factors, such as anxiety, are located among the obstacles that hinder language learning and can result in language learners who are resistant to language input, especially in foreign language learning contexts. Thus, the current research effort aimed at examining the level of speaking anxiety among foreign language learners (English and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Arabic, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
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Nydia Martínez; Gina Mikel Petrie; Catherine Nolan-Ferrell – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study counters the popular assumption that Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLLs) on study abroad (SA) in a place of cultural origin can easily adapt and find acceptance due to the linguistic and cultural resources they bring with them. Our study builds on previous work to illustrate a more nuanced and complex story of desires for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish, Native Language
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Martin Howard; Leigh Oakes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study responds to calls for more research on motivations for learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in the new era dominated by global English. In particular, it focuses on the role of societal contextual factors surrounding the status of English and the status of the LOTE as an L2/L3, as factors which may offer a more nuanced…
Descriptors: French, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Iratxe Serna-Bermejo; David Lasagabaster – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Translanguaging has become a very relevant and controversial issue, especially in those contexts where the language teaching tradition encourages the exclusion of the L1 from the L2/FL classroom. Whereas previous research in the Basque Country has mainly focused on the implementation of translanguaging pedagogies, in this study we carried out a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Translation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Marianthi Oikonomakou; Dimitrios Kokkinos; Anthippi Potolia – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This research focuses on the impact of language autobiographies in promoting multilingualism practices and fostering the cultivation of respect towards linguistic and cultural diversity at educational contexts. It aims at investigating how language autobiographies, as a reflective practice, promote the development of students' critical linguistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Autobiographies, Multilingualism, Preservice Teacher Education
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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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