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Direct linkAbu Nawas; I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan; Nina Maadad – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
This study examines multilevel factors shaping Indonesian student performances attending non-"madrasah/sekolah" and madrasah schools. Using multistratified sample design and grouped based on their school system, data from 30 schools, 64 teachers, and 1,319 students were analysed. Focusing on student, teacher, and school-level variables,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Celikturk, Halenur; Tilfarlioglu, Filiz Yalcin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
This study aims to answer whether there is a relation between various competition games played in ELT (English Language Teaching) classrooms and sympathetic tendency of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners towards English lesson. The study was carried on 302 participants consisting of 9th grade students from a high school, Gaziantep. The…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Social Cognition, Empathy, English (Second Language)
Miso Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The dissertation examines South Korean entry-level white-collar jobseekers' negotiation of neoliberal employment requirements, reasons for studying English, and use of tools and resources for English learning. Although previous studies have problematized neoliberalism and English in South Korea (J. S.-Y. Park, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018; J. S.-Y. Park…
Descriptors: Employment, Skilled Workers, Neoliberalism, English (Second Language)
Liu, I-Fan; Young, Shelley S. -C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The purpose of this study is to describe an online community-based English extensive reading contest to investigate whether the participants' intrinsic, extrinsic, and interpersonal motivations and learning results show significant gender differences. A total of 501 valid questionnaires (285 females and 216 males) from Taiwanese high school…
Descriptors: Competition, Motivation, Gender Differences, Questionnaires
Wong, Simpson W. L.; Cheung, Him; Zheng, Mo; Yang, Xiujie; McBride, Catherine; Ho, Connie Suk-Han; Leung, Judy Sze-Man; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Waye, Mary Miu Yee – Child Development, 2020
Vocabulary knowledge was tested in a native (Cantonese-Chinese) and foreign (English) language in 150 twins and 150 singletons aged 6-11 years, matched on age, gender, grade level, nonverbal intelligence, parents' education, family income, and number of siblings and household members. The singletons clearly outperformed the twins on the native…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Native Language, Sino Tibetan Languages, Chinese
Lee, Cheng-Fei – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2014
Previous studies on the field of education abroad have mainly focused on the factors influencing the mobility of international students from developing to developed countries and very few have been conducted to investigate the factors influencing the flow of international students to the Asia Pacific region. As a piece of country-specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Study Abroad, Decision Making
Download full textHon-keung, Yau; Man-shan, Kan; Lai-fong, Cheng Alison – Online Submission, 2012
The purposes of this paper are to identify: (1) the factors affecting the intrinsic motivation of university students in Hong Kong; and (2) gender differences in the perception of intrinsic motivation in Hong Kong higher education environment. The factors of curiosity and external regulation with intrinsic motivation are taken into investigation…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Student Motivation, Personality Traits, English (Second Language)
Parrish, Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Each year, millions of high school seniors in China take the National College Entrance Examination (or gaokao). The score the students receive on the gaokao is the sole determinant of whether they will be admitted to college and which college they may attend. Because the demand for college exceeds the availability of admission seats, the…
Descriptors: Asians, College Entrance Examinations, College Admission, Competition
