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Al-Ahmadi, Shatha Talib; King, Jim – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This study explores the complexity of language learner silence in the female Saudi Arabian university English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. To this end, a combination of two methodologies was used. First, a total of 296 students from 12 EFL classrooms were observed using the COPS structured observation scheme (King, 2013a, b) to measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Females, Student Participation
Katie Silvester – National Council of Teachers of English, 2024
This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life…
Descriptors: Females, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Alhebaishi, Safaa Mohammad – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study investigates the emotional responses of EFL student teachers to various affective situations during practicum and their coping strategies to enhance positive emotions and reduce negative emotions. Seventy female EFL student teachers participated in this study. To collect quantitative and qualitative data, two instruments were used: an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Teachers
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Marashi, Hamid; Erami, Neda – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of choice theory-based instruction on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary achievement. To fulfil the purpose of this study, 60 female advanced EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 90 learners through their performance on a piloted sample Cambridge ESOL Certificate of Advanced…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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Kruk, Mariusz – The EUROCALL Review, 2016
The article presents the results of a study whose main aim was to investigate the changes in motivation, language anxiety and boredom in learning English in "Second Life." The sample consisted of 16 second year students of English philology. The study was conducted over the period of a summer semester. During that time the participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Summer Programs
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Rawal, Hima; De Costa, Peter I. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2019
A limited ability to pursue postsecondary education often leaves English language learners (ELLs) with a gamut of negative emotional experiences. Using an emotionally oriented framework to guide our study, this article focuses on the experiences of two female South Asian students who graduated from different U.S. high schools. We explored what…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Language Learners, Emotional Experience, Females
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Al-Saraj, Taghreed M. – L2 Journal, 2014
With the increase in globalization, the study of English has become common in Saudi Arabia, but students' experiences of foreign language anxiety (FLA) have been underexamined. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are culturally distinct from the Western world, where the most popular assessments of FLA were developed. Through a qualitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires