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Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
Ozer, Omer; Ispinar Akçayoglu, Duygu – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
This quantitative study investigates the potential relationships among foreign-language self-efficacy (FL self-efficacy), self-regulation, foreign-language anxiety (FLA), class attendance and academic achievement in English language. The participants were 344 EFL learners who were enrolled in a one-year preparatory programme at a state university…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Anxiety, Second Language Instruction
Li Dong – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Despite the significance of grit and motivational regulation strategies (MRS) to language learning, limited research has been conducted on their longitudinal interplay. The present study explores the relationship between these two constructs in an English as a second language (L2) learning context through a longitudinal design. This study utilizes…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Amini, Asieh; Weisi, Hiwa – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Given the significance of willingness to communicate and its integral role in the field of foreign/second language acquisition (F/SLA), this quantitative study intends to examine the relationship between sensory emotioncy types and teacher immediacy with second language learners' willingness to communicate (WTC).…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Andrew H. Lee – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which second language (L2) learners benefited from proactive form-focused instruction (FFI) targeting French grammatical gender attribution and the degree to which L2 learners' attention control and working memory predicted their learning gains. A total of 102 L2 learners received either proactive FFI…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Fang Huang; Dingyang Peng; Timothy Teo – European Journal of Education, 2025
Contextualised in the AI--supported English-speaking learning, this study examined the roles of AI affordances in influencing EFL learners' emotional, cognitive, and behavioural speaking engagement, and explored the moderating roles of gender and learner types (on-campus vs. on-job) in influencing AI-supported English-speaking engagement. Data…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Ghadah Albarqi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
The Elicited Imitation Test (EIT) is widely recognized for its reliability in research settings as a proficiency assessment tool. However, there exists a need to examine its predictive validity in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. This study investigates the extent to which the EIT, alongside the Oxford Placement Test (OPT), can…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Imitation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hajmohammadi, Elmira; Aghayani, Behnam – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This study attempted to investigate the relationship between EFL learners' motivation and internal locus of control under the framework of self-determination theory. In addition, the study examined the relation between EFL learners' age and gender regarding their motivation and internal locus of control. To this end, a convenience sample of 115…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Motivation, Locus of Control, Self Determination
Xu, Heng; Durgunoglu, Aydin Y. – TESOL Journal, 2020
Most research on the predictors of successful reading comprehension in a second language (L2) has been focused on cognitive factors. Very few studies exist on how motivational factors impact L2 reading comprehension. In this study, 179 Chinese college students read passages in English (their L2) and answered either literal, relatively superficial…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Uzun, Kutay – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
Scoring essays written in L2 is one of the most arduous and time-taking tasks for language teachers due to the heavy work involved in the process. In this respect, the present study aimed to build a regression model to predict essay quality using only one or two rhetorical moves in the setting of an English Language Teaching department in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essays, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Nerea Gutiérrez-Fernández; Lourdes Villardón-Gallego; Lirio Flores-Moncada – Qualitative Research in Education, 2025
Perceived competence is considered an essential predictor of learner´s performance in language learning. It is therefore important to identify strategies that favor its development. This study aims to analyze whether the perceived linguistic competence of English as a L2 of pre-service teachers improves after implementing Dialogic Pedagogical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Predictor Variables
Almusharraf, Norah Mansour; Bailey, Daniel – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
During the COVID-19 outbreak, students had to cope with succeeding in video-conferencing classes susceptible to technical problems like choppy audio, frozen screens and poor Internet connection, leading to interrupted delivery of facial expressions and eye-contact. For these reasons, agentic engagement during video-conferencing became critical for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language)
Chen, Po-Hsuan – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
The present study aimed at exploring the joint effects of reading motivation and reading anxiety on English reading comprehension in the Taiwanese English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To this end, a total of 140 (26 males, 114 females) EFL freshmen from required General English I courses at a university in southern Taiwan satisfactorily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Anxiety, Reading Comprehension
The Merit of Grit and Emotions in L2 Chinese Online Language Achievement: A Case of Arabian Students
Xian Zhao; Peijian Paul Sun; Man Gong – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided second language (L2) learners with additional challenges regarding how to obtain an enjoyable experience while achieving a better learning attainment. Despite a growing body of studies that substantiated the predictive effect of grit, foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLA)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Persistence
Ruane, Colum – TESL-EJ, 2020
An approximate replication of Yashima, Zenuk-Nishide, and Shimizu (2004), the main focus of this study was on the relationship between L2 WTC and International Posture in an ESL environment. International Posture measures the degree of connectedness to the international community from within an EFL context. However, attitudes may change when there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction