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Nayibe Azzad – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of Heritage Language has experienced a great deal of advancement in the past few decades. Much research effort has been dedicated to analyzing and understanding different aspects of heritage language speakers, but less work has been done in the topic of pedagogical approaches. The few recent studies on pedagogical approaches have focused…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Heritage Education
Seunghee Jin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
This study introduces an innovative approach to improving speaking proficiency among Korean EFL learners through the use of vlogs, further evaluating their impact on learners' foreign language speaking anxiety (FLSA) and willingness to communicate (WTC). In this semester-long experiment, 49 university students were divided into an experimental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Rui Li – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Despite the growing body of research regarding the effectiveness of MALL (mobile-assisted language learning) technologies on foreign language (FL) learners' speaking skill development, a comprehensively quantitative meta-analysis regarding the effect sizes of these studies is still lacking. To solve the problem, this study reported results based…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Skill Development, Speech Communication, Second Language Instruction
Pernelle Lorette; Jean-Marc Dewaele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Many studies have revealed multilinguals' reduced emotionality of a foreign language (LX) compared to a first language (L1). Contrary to the bulk of research so far, which has focused on multilinguals' own emotion experience or emotion processing, this study focuses on interpersonal communication and investigates how one perceives the intensity…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Interpersonal Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication
Doqaruni, Vahid Rahmani; Heydarnejad, Tahereh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Despite the important role emotions play in affecting second/foreign language (L2) learners' cognition, such as their learning processes, few empirical studies have tried to find out how emotions affect the four main skills (i.e., listening, speaking, reading, and writing). In order to fill this gap, the present study aims to investigate the…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Seong Hyeon Choi; Kemtong Sinwongsuwat – rEFLections, 2024
Technology-enhanced language learning, or TELL, has played a major role in boosting EFL learners' speaking skills in recent years. The use of online technological methods such as vlogging and uploading videos to popular social networks such as YouTube, in particular, has been recommended as a tool to hone students' conversation skills in addition…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Suzuki, Yuichi; Yokosawa, Satoko; Aline, David – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Prior research showed that interleaved practice (studying multiple skills at once) is more effective than blocked practice (studying only one skill at a time). This study aims to replicate the benefits of interleaved practice on the proceduralization of second language (L2) syntax and further examines the role of working memory (WM) in different…
Descriptors: Role, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim; Mohamed Ali Mohamed Kassem; Desta Lami – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Few empirical research has attempted to determine the impact of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Assessment (ICALA) in philosophy-based language instruction (PBLI) on critical thinking, self-evaluation, and academic resilience, despite the significant role that higher-order thinking skills play in influencing English as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Language Education & Assessment, 2021
Speaking a foreign language is a complicated process that involves linguistic competence, skills, and strategy use. Communicating through English in English for Academic Purposes courses is a basic requirement for EFL learners, but it can be a challenge. To improve the quality of speech, strengthen components of speaking competence, and raise…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Phetsut, Piyaporn; Waemusa, Zainee – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
With the rapid growth of digital technology, mobile phones are widely used for EFL teaching and learning. However, little is known about the effectiveness of integrating a mobile application into EFL classrooms to improve oral accuracy in Thai school contexts. An instructional intervention grounded with Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Assisted Instruction, Pretests Posttests
Bangkom, Kusuma; Sukavatee, Pornpimol – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Oracy skills are considered as a problematic area for Thai students. Despite years of learning, students could not improve the skills at a satisfactory level due to internal and external hindrance such as cognitive load while communicating and insufficient practice time in class to achieve their communication (Flavell, 1979). In addition, to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Oral Language, Second Language Learning
Suzuki, Yuichi; Sunada, Midori – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
To investigate the skill transfer and the effects of practice schedules in the learning of second language syntax, 129 intermediate-level English learners were divided into six groups, based on practice format (input vs. output practice) and practice schedule (blocked vs. interleaved vs. hybrid [blocked + interleaved]). Analyses revealed that the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Vercellotti, Mary Lou – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Experience with a visual-spatial language may influence certain cognitive processes (Keehner and Gathercole 2007). Spatial ability is an important cognitive skill (Linn and Petersen 1985). Some research has found that deaf signers outperform hearing nonsigners on certain spatial tasks (e.g., Emmorey, Kosslyn, and Bellugi 1993) and that hearing…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spatial Ability
Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2021
This study evaluates the development of L2 collocational competence in texts written by learners of differing proficiency levels, compared to native speaker collocation patterns from a reference corpus. We address: (1) whether learners develop their collocation competence as their proficiency grows; and (2) How is this development mediated by…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Dobinson, Keeley L.; Dockrell, Julie E. – First Language, 2021
Oral language skills underpin children's educational success and enhance positive life outcomes. Yet, significant numbers of children struggle to develop competence in speaking and listening, especially those from areas of high economic deprivation. A tiered intervention model, graduating the level of provision in line with levels of need, has…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Skill Development, Oral Language