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Aubrey, Scott; Tsang, Art – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
The present study investigated 69 local Hong Kong English language education students' cross-cultural learning as a result of an Internationalization at Home (IaH) initiative that made use of international students' knowledge of English language education in contexts outside of Hong Kong. An analysis of written responses to open-ended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness, Second Language Instruction
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Aubrey, Scott; Philpott, Andrew – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This 13-week study investigated changes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' motivational states due to face-to-face inter-cultural and intra-cultural contact treatments in a Japanese EFL classroom. Drawing on the L2 motivational Self System and International Posture, this quasi-experimental study took the form of a between-groups…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Aubrey, Scott – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
This article reports on a study that investigates the effects of inter-cultural contact on flow experiences during the performance of five oral tasks in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. Using a quasi-experimental design, Japanese EFL learners in the inter-cultural group (n = 21) and the intra-cultural group (n = 21) reported on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries
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Aubrey, Scott – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Flow represents a state of complete involvement and heightened intensity that leads to improved performance on a task (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975, 1990). The notion of flow has the potential to provide worthwhile insights into the area of task engagement, yet the construct has received relatively little empirical attention by second language…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language