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Bulut, Mustafa Hilmi; Fung, Chi-Keung Victor; Lehmberg, Lisa J.; Kindap Tepe, Yeliz; Hernly, Patrick; Özgül, Yusuf; Mehdiyev, Esmira; Kaptan, Zekeriya – SAGE Open, 2022
The personality trait of openness has been shown to contribute to a person's ability to function effectively. Additionally, scholars have suggested that openness to experience and foreign language experience were related to music preference. Extending from earlier scholarship, this study examined the relationship between openness to experience and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students)
Yuan Lu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study explored second language (L2) competence in discontinuous discursive formulaic sequences, namely Chinese correlative connectives (CCCs; e.g. yinwei . . . suy 'because . . . so'), in relation to the determinants of formulaic sequence acquisition by scrutinizing L2 Chinese learners' performance on two controlled tasks. Mixed-effects…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abdulmohsen H. Alomran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation study examines the acculturation experiences of Saudi Arabian students pursuing higher education in the United States. It investigates the relationships among students' acculturation strategies, self-assertion, and academic self-efficacy, while exploring the moderating effects of English proficiency and length of stay. The study…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Acculturation
Katherine Rice Warnell; Amy A. Weimer; Rong Huang; Daniela Kuri – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Recent research on advanced theory of mind (ToM) has questioned the extent to which existing ToM measures capture a single construct, particularly for groups understudied in developmental research. The present study examined the factor structure of one of the most commonly used advanced ToM measures, the Strange Stories task, in samples of low-…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Cognitive Development, Socioeconomic Status, Institutional Characteristics
Papi Mostafa; Hiver, Phil – Modern Language Journal, 2020
Research on language learning motivation has typically focused on the strength of different motives in isolation and often out of context. The present study aims to explore the applicability of one global framework of motivation to integrate different perspectives. We investigated how adaptive interactions between learners' motivations for value,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Context Effect
Alqahtani, Asma – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates motivation types of Saudi and Chines EFL learners and gender role differences. I selected these two groups because they constituted the most dominant groups that study English abroad. The descriptive and correlational approaches were used to examine the participants' motivation by collecting the data through questionnaire…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
Nooshin Shakiba; Karyn Stapleton – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Swearing uses language forms that are taboo and potentially offensive. These are often used for emotional expression. Multilingual research shows that because the first language retains most emotional force (Dewaele [2004]. "The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals." "Journal of Multilingual…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Language Usage
Ke, Sihui; Zhang, Dongbo – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This scoping review explores the causal relationship between morphological instruction and reading development in young L2 learners by synthesizing 12 primary studies published between 2004 and 2019 (N = 1,535). These studies focused on reading English as the target language and involved participants between kindergarten and Grade 12 from four…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Dinh, Truong My Hanh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation uses the Conceptual Blending Hypothesis from the socio-cognitive method presented and refined by Kecskes (2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2020) to explain how the lexical choice of bilinguals differs across sociocultural situations. Quantitative (lexical density, lexical diversity, and lexical sophistication) and qualitative (lexical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Dolean, Dacian Dorin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In the past few decades, literature has consistently suggested that bilingual children are at risk for academic failure due to their limited language skills. However, many of these studies included underprivileged bilingual children, and few of them attempted to disentangle the effects of bilingualism from the effects of socio-economic status.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Family Environment
Aslan, Fehime – Journal of English as an International Language, 2021
The ownership of English has been hotly debated for a long time by researchers in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). World Englishes expand the ownership of English from Inner Circle countries to Outer and Expanding Circle countries based on Kachru's (1985) Three Circle Model. In light of this, it can be claimed that World Englishes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Language Teachers
Davis, Larry; Norris, John – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
The elicited imitation task (EIT), in which language learners listen to a series of spoken sentences and repeat each one verbatim, is a commonly used measure of language proficiency in second language acquisition research. The "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test includes an EIT as a holistic measure of speaking proficiency, referred to as the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Language Proficiency, Speech Communication, Language Tests
Cychosz, Margaret; Villanueva, Anele; Weisleder, Adriana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The language that children hear early in life is associated with their speech-language outcomes. This line of research relies on naturalistic observations of children's language input, often captured with daylong audio recordings. However, the large quantity of data that daylong recordings generate requires novel analytical tools to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Linguistic Input, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Mora Vázquez, Alberto; Trejo Guzmán, Nelly Paulina; Mora-Pablo, Irasema – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This paper reports on the findings of research aimed at examining the life stories of teachers who have experienced migration moves between Mexico and the U.S. and are currently engaged in English Language Teaching in Mexico. Drawing from a larger research project into the transnationals' learning trajectories in two Mexican states, the study…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Personal Narratives, Teacher Attitudes
Ke, Sihui – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL) enrolled in university bridging programs in the U.S. and Chinese-speaking university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in mainland China.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)