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Jiangping Cai – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although the United States has a population with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, multilingual education has been greatly influenced by monolingual and raciolinguistic ideologies (Flores & Rosa, 2019; Garcia, 2014; Ruiz, 1984). With world language enrollment continuing to decline (Lusin et al., 2023), investigation of the lived…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Student Experience, Multilingualism, Chinese
Yonghou Liu; Tianle Li; Quan Zhong – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Multilingual perspectives have become the mainstream research paradigm in language motivation studies lately. The motivational interplay between English and French, as two important foreign languages in China, has received little academic attention, but this topic is becoming increasingly significant for language education in the era of global…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, French, Foreign Countries
Yanyu Guo; Boping Yuan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This article reports on an empirical study of L3 Mandarin, aiming to shed light on transfer effects and their interaction with other factors throughout the L3 acquisition trajectory. A fill-in-the-blank task was employed to examine L2 and L3 acquisition of three types of Mandarin sentence-final particle clusters. Participants in the study were…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language), English
Art Tsang; Scott Aubrey; Rui Yuan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Against the backdrop of internationalisation and growing attention to intercultural experiences in tertiary education, this mixed-methods study examined, in part I, language learning benefits reaped by active participants in intercultural activities. As English is widely used for communication among multilinguals, part II of the study focused…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Multicultural Education, Multilingualism
Riccardo Amorati – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Language-specific (i.e. the ideal L2 self) and plurilingual selves are now at the forefront of scholarly inquiry in L2 motivation research. Yet, there is a lack of empirical studies examining how language learners reframe their sense of self as speakers of an L2. This study draws on a questionnaire (N = 162) and on semi-structured interviews (N =…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Italian, German
Yuanyuan Liu; Chenxin Wang; Hui Jin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Previous studies of affordance have not explored in detail how a special type of affordance -- institutional affordance -- worked in multilingualism. By drawing empirical voices of students, this study investigates how institutional affordance supplied by a collegiate multilingual education policy was perceived and utilised by students. A thematic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Ethnography
Calafato, Raees – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Research on the relationship between students' language learning motivation (LLM), language learning strategies (LLS), self-efficacy beliefs (SEB), and achievement in non-European languages has been both limited and overwhelmingly cross-sectional, often with little attention paid to their multilingualism. Combining complex dynamic systems and…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Motivation, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
Mayumi, Kayoko; Zheng, Ying – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study explored the language learning motivation of a small group of five university students in the UK through the constructs of Dornyei's L2 Motivational Self System and Henry's notion of 'the ideal multilingual self'. The five participants, all successful language learners at school, chose to specialise in modern languages at university and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation
Anna Lia Proietti Ergün; Hande Ersöz Demirdag – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In the last ten years, positive emotion in foreign language learning has been increasingly investigated in many research areas, including Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE). FLE has been defined as a positive emotion felt when an individual's psychological needs are met. This study investigates the relationship between perceived levels of Subjective…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, French
Tun Myint; Breanna Fraser-Hevlin; Chris Niosco – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This mixed methods explanatory case study intends to explain low utilization of a joint initiative to improve language skills targeted to English as an additional language (EAL)/multilingual students (MLSs) in a disciplinary context. Considering the importance of discipline-specific language and literacy skills, a university health sciences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Fang Zhang; Wenjun Yu; Hao Xu – SAGE Open, 2025
This paper reports on a study that investigates the impact of learning multiple foreign languages on learners' social emotional competence development as mediated by the number of foreign languages and the recency of the learning experience. A questionnaire survey that involved 465 Chinese learners of foreign languages was administered that…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Surveys
Marjana Šifrar Kalan; Javier Muñoz-Basols; Pablo Robles-García; Tripp Strawbridge; Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the effects of multilingualism and the degree of proficiency in different languages on vocabulary knowledge among Spanish language learners. Participants completed a 160-word meaning recall test designed to measure their knowledge of the 8,000 most frequent Spanish words and a self-assessment questionnaire on their…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, Multilingualism, Word Frequency
Fatma Kimsesiz – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2024
This paper aims to reflect the ideas of learners of English at higher education level in a multicultural non-native context. The participants were six learners of English (N=6) from six different countries and they were in the preparatory English class to major in the Department of International Affairs at a state university in Turkiye. The design…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Language Acquisition
Caruso, Marinella; Fraschini, Nicola – Modern Language Journal, 2021
This study explores language learners' motivation from the perspective of vision, a concept that has specifically been identified as one of the next challenges for motivation research. Having conceptualized vision as a powerful motivational component of the language learning process, and focusing on the learner's individual perspective, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Italian
Liu, Meng – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
In self-determination theory (SDT), the role of positive emotion in the motivational process is undertheorized. Most previous research considered emotion as an outcome variable, rather than a main construct of the motivational process. There is, however, some evidence in domains outside language learning suggesting that positive emotion moderates…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Positive Attitudes, Psychological Patterns