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Morad Alsahafi – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article reports a part of a larger study which examines the sociolinguistic dynamics within the Hausa community in Saudi Arabia. It focuses on how second-generation members of the Hausa Saudi community perceive their ethnic identity and investigates the relationship between their proficiency in the Hausa heritage language and their sense of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Ethnicity, Native Language
Budi Waluyo; Ali Zahabi; Benjamin Panmei – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
Despite the vast research on test anxiety and test performance since the 1950s, studies on how students' English test anxiety affects their English proficiency test performance in the context of second- and foreign language learning remain few. Therefore, using a quantitative research design, this study explored students' English test anxiety and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Test Anxiety, Language Proficiency
Charinee Chansri; Akadet Kedcham; Montha Polrak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This paper aimed to explore the impact of self-regulated learning strategies on English language abilities and knowledge of 421 final-year undergraduate students at a public university in Thailand. The instruments used in the present study were: (1) the 65-item Questionnaire of English Self-Regulated Learning Strategies (QESRLS), and (2) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Self Management
Sohan Singh; Dilip Kumar Singh – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
In the present study, the researcher aims to investigate the impact of school adjustment and study habits on English language achievement among senior secondary students. This study is contrary to expectations; neither school adjustment nor study habits individually demonstrated a significant correlation with English language achievement. However,…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Study Habits, Secondary School Students, Language Proficiency
Jakub Bielak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) experienced during a creative collaborative oral English-as-a-foreign-language task, and the relationships between FLE/FLA and task speech fluency were investigated. The task was performed by mid-intermediate/high-intermediate English learners (N = 43) in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency
Marie Charmaine P. Igwe; Massuline Antonio D. Ligaya – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
The research was conducted to determine how the leadership behavior of English teachers affects students' performance in the language and to examine how the motivation of students toward English language learning influences the relationship between the leadership behavior of teachers and the performance of their students in the language. The…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Teacher Leadership, Student Motivation
Hilal Günes – Online Submission, 2025
This study aimed to (a) explore the perceived levels of English language self-efficacy, enjoyment, and anxiety among EFL learners and (b) test a hypothesized model investigating their interrelations and potential predictive effects on English Language Achievement (ELA). Using a quantitative, non-experimental correlational design, data were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Zeqiri, Luiza; Sadiku, Alisa – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
First year undergraduate students go through a critical stage of their education; a challenging transition which makes them feel more independent and free to decide not to attend classes, although attendance is compulsory. Whether this absenteeism has any impact on their academic accomplishments remains a controversial topic. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Architecture, Attendance, English (Second Language)
Wen-Chi Huang – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The adoption of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) has gained global traction, spurred on by higher education internationalization trends. Despite the widespread usage of EMI, its influence on students' language development remains relatively unexplored. This study investigated the impact of EMI instruction on the self-efficacy and English…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Xiaojuan Gao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mindfulness has been overlooked in previous studies of second or foreign language learning. This study aims to explore the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, burnout and self-perceived foreign language proficiency among a sample of 492 learners. Further, it seeks to make up for the deficiency in the current empirical literature regarding…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Burnout
Doyumgaç, Ibrahim; Gürbüz, Ramazan; Bulus, Metin – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
The present study aims to inspect the interplay between language (Turkish) comprehension/learning (LCL) and mathematics comprehension/learning (MCL). We utilized a mixed-methods exploratory research design to understand the mechanism between LCL and MCL. First, we used an analytic rubric to score a researcher-developed achievement battery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Comprehension, Language Proficiency
Ling Xu; Tina Abdullah; Xiongying Tang – SAGE Open, 2024
English as a foreign language education is a top national priority in China, and improving learners' English language proficiency is a concern. However, most research focuses on how to enhance English proficiency in the educational environment. Investigations of the impacts of family environment on English language development are limited. This…
Descriptors: Family Environment, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Parenting Styles
Shahinaz Alkhaldi; Krishna Bista – Journal of International Students, 2025
This study examines the relationship between academic performance (GPA), Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA), and English proficiency (IELTS scores) among Saudi international students in the United States while considering demographic factors such as gender, age, college major, and length of U.S. residency. Data from 551 students, collected…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Anxiety
Khaled Barkaoui – Language Testing, 2025
English-medium universities often accept scores from various English language proficiency (ELP) tests as evidence of ELP from non-English background students. This practice raises the question of how these tests compare in terms of their ability to predict academic achievement. This longitudinal study addresses this question by examining the…
Descriptors: English Learners, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Nobuhiro Kamiya – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study investigated to what extent the scores of two English tests are correlated to each other, namely, the English test of the "Common Test for University Admissions" (Common Test, henceforth) in Japan and the "TOEIC Bridge", a commercially available English test developed by "Educational Testing Service" (ETS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)