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Ulrikke Rindal – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The use of students' first language (L1) in additional language (L2) instruction has been a recurring theme in language education research. While research has documented the amount of L1 use and its purposes in L2 instruction, little research has investigated the multifaceted motives that influence language choices at the micro level of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
Jae-Eun Jon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Despite the position of the United States as a top destination for international student mobility and the advancement of research on study abroad decisions, little is known about how American college students choose a destination country for study abroad. Expanding the understanding of students' choice of a study abroad destination can contribute…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, College Students
Wendong Li; Yang Gong – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Studying abroad entails international students' identity (trans)formation and social network development, but individuals' decisions and choices while engaging in these processes remain underexplored. Informed by the notion of agency in second language socialization theory, this longitudinal case study examined the interplay of identity and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
Z. Banitalebi; M. Estaji; A. Coombs – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
Research has postulated a link between teachers' beliefs and agentic decisions. This study sought to investigate 215 Iranian EFL preservice teachers' conceptions of assessment, assessment agency, and the interrelationship between these two constructs. Using structural equation modeling, the results revealed that collaboration and reflection…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Giuseppe D’Orazzi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study bridges a gap in the current research on motivation and demotivation learning a second language (L2). It is meant to provide an overview of students' goal setting when they start to learn an L2 at university level in Australia. Drawing on goal-setting and learning goal orientation constructs (cf. Miller, 2020), goal formation is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, French, German
Nakhon Kitjaroonchai; Prema Marshall; Jirapa Phasook; Nadtawadee Thararuenroeng – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
This study investigated university students' perceptions of notetaking and its potential impact on academic performance, as well as the factors influencing their note-taking decisions. The participants included 150 students, comprising 75 Thai and 75 non-Thai students enrolled at Asia-Pacific International University, Thailand, during the second…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yuya Arai – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Language testing research has suggested that placement accuracy can be an important factor in the consequences of placement decision-making. However, previous studies primarily have used a one-shot teacher judgment of placement accuracy, suffering from a lack of students' perspectives of their time-varying experiences. The present study aimed to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Placement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lesley Harbon; Ruth Fielding – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This paper explores secondary school students' investment in their language learning after having graduated from one of four bilingual (also termed Content and Language Integrated Language (CLIL)) primary school programs in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. We show the different study pathways pursued by a selection of students and illustrate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Self Concept, Academic Persistence, Second Language Instruction
Andrea Révész; Hyeonjeong Jeong; Shungo Suzuki; Haining Cui; Shunsui Matsuura; Kazuya Saito; Motoaki Sugiura – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The last three decades have seen significant development in understanding and describing the effects of task complexity on learner internal processes. However, researchers have primarily employed behavioral methods to investigate task-generated cognitive load. Being the first to adopt neuroimaging to study second language (L2) task effects, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Decision Making Skills
Makiko Kato – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This study aims to examine whether differences exist in the factors influencing the difficulty of scoring English summaries and determining scores based on the raters' attributes, and to collect candid opinions, considerations, and tentative suggestions for future improvements to the analytic rubric of summary writing for English learners. In this…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Scoring, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)
Fang Zhang; Wenjun Yu; Hao Xu – SAGE Open, 2025
This paper reports on a study that investigates the impact of learning multiple foreign languages on learners' social emotional competence development as mediated by the number of foreign languages and the recency of the learning experience. A questionnaire survey that involved 465 Chinese learners of foreign languages was administered that…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Surveys
Rebecca Sickinger; Tineke Brunfaut; John Pill – Language Testing, 2025
Comparative Judgement (CJ) is an evaluation method, typically conducted online, whereby a rank order is constructed, and scores calculated, from judges' pairwise comparisons of performances. CJ has been researched in various educational contexts, though only rarely in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing settings, and is generally agreed to…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Purkarthofer, Judith – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Connections between linguistic heterogeneity, educational choices and (family) biographies are complex and ever shifting. With this paper, my aim is to explore the question how social spaces are constructed by multilingual families in migration societies and how they situate social spaces 'in between', thereby challenging both binary and national…
Descriptors: Decision Making, School Choice, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Musaddag Elrayah; Sanjar Mirzaliev – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Technology plays a key role in the education and learning of students at the higher education level. It is vital to identify the factors that can develop alignment among the learning objectives of the students and technology. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the effect of factors such as Task Technology Fit, online…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Likert Scales, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sameer Aljabri – Cogent Education, 2024
Previous studies have consistently demonstrated that students typically favor collaborative retrieval practice over practicing individually. However, there is a gap in research regarding how EFL students specifically engage in collaborative retrieval practice compared to individual methods. This study aimed to investigate Saudi EFL students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries