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Elvira Barrios; Irene Acosta-Manzano – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study aimed to identify associations and predictors of willingness to communicate (WTC) of adult foreign language (FL) learners and whether they are contingent upon the FL being learned. To this end, our research investigated learner variables associated with WTC in adult FL learners of English and of French in an under-researched field of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French, Foreign Countries
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Satima Rotjanawongchai – rEFLections, 2024
Research on teacher strategies to improve learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) is limited. However, encouraging outside-the-class conversations could increase L2 exposure and improve communicative skills. This study investigated the effects of self-assessment of self-recorded conversations on Thai university EFL learners' WTC and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Interpersonal Communication, Second Language Learning, Communication Skills
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Masoud Rahimi; Jalil Fathi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The present study adopted a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach to explore the impact of e-tandem on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' speaking skills (i.e. speaking fluency and coherence, lexicon, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation) and willingness to communicate (WTC). To this end, two classes at a language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Interpersonal Communication
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Nur Fatimah; Pratomo Widodo; Erna Andriyanti – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
The present study analyzed the use of conversation analysis (CA) in online interaction. The aim of the study is to describe the patterns of turn taking, repair, and the adjacency pairs in the online conversation. Employing a qualitative research methodology, data were taken from an online conversation about how to learn English, taking place in…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning
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Patson Jaihow; Kemtong Sinwongsuwat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Even though corpora have transformed language education, the majority of corpus-related research focuses on the teaching of writing. Via a systematic review of previous studies and a survey of language corpora available, this study aims to ascertain whether and to what extent the teaching of speaking, especially of conversation skills, to EFL…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication
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Jonathan Hennessy – JALT CALL Journal, 2024
To successfully interact in a new language, learners must effectively take turns and manage the floor. Expectations and rules for turn-taking can differ between languages, making this more than a question of grammatical proficiency and vocabulary acquisition. In addition, the increased use of videoconferencing software in education and beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Videoconferencing
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Sabina Ndiung; Sebastianus Menggo – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This study seeks to analyse the incorporation of problem-based learning (PBL) in strengthening students' interpersonal communication skills, as well as the level of proficiency of students' interpersonal communication skills and the obstacles they face in acquiring them. This study was a cross-sectional survey conducted in May 2023 with 315…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Communication Skills, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
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Amina Bashir; Aamir Aziz; Muhammad Imran; Norah Almusharraf – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2025
With technological advancement, multimodality has received paramount importance in teaching and learning. Different technology-based assistance is available nowadays, and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is one of them. It uses computer-based tools, materials, resources, and information to assist second language learning. Motivation…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Intention
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Huey-Jye You; Hui-Chin Yeh; Grace Yue Qi – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Telecollaboration has received growing interest in language education as a way of fostering intercultural learning. While the body of literature primarily focuses on the impact of telecollaborative processes on intercultural learning, the effect of supportive mechanisms on intercultural telecollaboration has received little academic attention.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Tatsuma Shirai – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2025
This paper presents a soft-CLIL (content and language integrated learning) practice focused on biomimicry, conducted at Japan's National Institute of Technology (NIT). Biomimicry involves solving problems and creating new things by drawing inspiration from animals, plants, and other living organisms to design and enhance human-made products and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Sustainability, Biology
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Kruk, Mariusz; Pawlak, Miroslaw; Taherian, Tahereh; Yüce, Erkan; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Barabadi, Elyas – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
In a dynamic system, time-dependent links "between" affective factors can provide more information than the level of response "within" a single isolated system. In the present study, influenced by the positive psychology movement and the complex dynamic systems theory in the domain of second language acquisition, first, we…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, English (Second Language), Emotional Response
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Kim McDonough; Chen Liu; Pavel Trofimovich – ELT Journal, 2023
To contribute to existing research that describes how L2 speakers avoid misunderstanding during conversation, the current study examines the strategies used by university students in Canada. The students (N = 104) were audio-recorded while carrying out two communicative tasks in pairs: exchanging personal experiences about moving to Canada, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interpersonal Communication, Comprehension, College Students
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Gerrard Mugford; Andrea Borda; Michelle Vidales Espinoza; Andrea Mora Ramos; Daniela Aketzalli Sanchez Mayoral – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Whilst teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) rightly focuses on meaningful and purposeful transactional language use, interpersonal language is often downplayed or given cursory treatment even though it is an equally essential and perhaps even more fulfilling dimension of target language interaction. Interpersonal language as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Sato, Rintaro – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Willingness to communicate (WTC), which plays a crucial role in second or foreign language learning, has a dynamic and complex nature, fluctuating during communicative events. This study examines how the situational WTC of four Japanese speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL) emerges and fluctuates, focusing on the roles of language…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Reuben H. Esteban; Kannika Pratumtone – THAITESOL Journal, 2024
This study primarily aimed to investigate the Communication Apprehension (CA) experienced by students at the Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna (RMUTL) Phitsanulok, Thailand in the context of their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes. A total of 281 students from three faculties--Business Administration and Liberal Arts (BALA),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
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