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Huina Su – International Journal of Listening, 2025
Listening comprehension results are affected by various individual difference factors. This study aimed to examine the relationship between metacognitive awareness, listening anxiety, and EFL listening comprehension. To this end, data from the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ), Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale (FLLAS),…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Du, Guohui; Man, Deliang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Listening is an essential and challenging language skill to acquire when we learn a new language, but L2 listening has received much less attention than reading, writing, and speaking in L2 teaching. This study investigated the direct effect of listening self-efficacy and metacognition on L2 listening comprehension and tested the mediating effect…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Listening Skills, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning
Zeilhofer, Luisa – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Incorporating mindfulness into education has been linked to improving academic, social and emotional learning. This article describes an investigation of the implementation of meditative practices in a foreign language setting (German). Two classes underwent distinct varieties of meditation: The count-to-ten method and the guided meditation…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement, Social Emotional Learning
Mitiku Tasisa Dinsa – Cogent Education, 2023
This study aimed to investigate EFL students' writing strategies used in comparison to gender and year level. A descriptive-comparison design was used for this study, whereby a total of 148 English major students participated from Wolkite University and Wachamo University. To this end, the data were collected through questionnaire. The results of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Strategies, Foreign Countries
Mark Feng Teng; Junjie Gavin Wu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Despite the large quantity of research projects about online learning, studies on students' language learning motivation, self-efficacy belief, and metacognitive strategy use in the online learning setting are limited. The present paper aims to fill this gap through assessing learners' metacognitive strategies, language learning motivation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Online Courses
Thi Hien Bui; Nicola F. Johnson – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
While the flipped classroom (FC) has been increasingly used and well-researched in Western countries, little is known about its implementation in Vietnam. Utilising symbolic interactionism as the theoretical perspective, this study reports on research into English as a foreign language (EFL) students' perspectives of self-regulation and…
Descriptors: Self Management, Metacognition, Flipped Classroom, English (Second Language)
Ariffin, Kamisah; Halim, Norhajawati Abdul; Darus, Norizul Azida – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
Online learning poses challenges that students might never have encountered in a face-to-face learning environment. In learning English, students may confront more challenges as they need both cognitive and metacognitive skills in dealing with the dynamic lessons involving interaction, online exercises, and audio, video and text downloads. The…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Online Courses
Daflizar; Sulistiyo, Urip; Kamil, Dairabi – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aimed at investigating the language learning strategies and autonomy of 76 Indonesian EFL university students and examining the correlations between the two. The Oxford's (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) for ESL/EFL learners was used to collect the data on students' language learning strategy use and an adapted…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Strategies, Personal Autonomy
Nilforoushan, Somayeh; Rashtchi, Mojgan; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza – SAGE Open, 2023
This mixed methods study examined whether perceived metacognitive reading strategies differed in Iranian EFL learners with different reading abilities. It also compared their actual (real) utilization of metacognitive reading strategies in different English text types (narrative and expository). Four hundred Iranian university students studying…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Teng, Mark Feng; Huang, Jing – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Previous studies have explored the roles of metacognitive instruction and collaborative writing, separately, in English writing. Little attention has been paid to students' writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). The present study aims to bridge this gap through investigating integrated writing performances based on the linguistic…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Collaborative Writing, Difficulty Level
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
Muhannad Abuzaid; Carol Griffiths – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This case study, conducted at a Palestinian university, explored the language learning strategies employed by learners of English as a foreign language and the relationship with proficiency. Furthermore, since gender is often considered a major variable in learning success in some areas of the world, the study wished to explore the role of gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Students, English (Second Language)
Duyen Thi Le – SAGE Open, 2024
Second language (L2) enjoyment has gained recent interest, but little research has attended to the sources of L2 vocabulary learning enjoyment. Drawing on the regulatory focus theory and the assumption that advancing toward a goal can contribute greatly to learning enjoyment, this study examined the extent L2 vocabulary selves and capacity for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Self Management, College Students
Muhammad Akhir; Suardi – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study examines the correlation between language skills, Self-efficacy, Achievement Motivation and SelfRegulated Learning, in predicting Academic Achievement in higher education. The study addresses the critical problem of low Self-efficacy, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Regulated Learning, which has been linked to poor Academic…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Metacognition
Ferrari, Federica; Picciuolo, Mariangela; Bigi, Daniele – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: This paper is a proposal for improving ESL text comprehension by merging a multimodal perspective on language (Kress et al. [2005]. "Urban Classrooms, Subject English: Multimodal Perspectives on Teaching and Learning." London: Routledge Falmer.) with an integrated psychological (or 'metacognitive') approach to language learning…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multimedia Instruction