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Fang Chen; Yi Yang; Peiyi Huang; Xiaoyu Han – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explores the similarities and differences in reading strategies applied by students to Chinese versus English reading. 842 students responded to a reading strategy inventory in terms of their habits when reading in Chinese versus in English. The result validates the general structure of a reading strategy inventory originally designed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Strategies, Gender Differences
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Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh; Mahdi Rajaeenia – TESL-EJ, 2024
Language learning beliefs are considered to be an important factor influencing student learning outcomes. This mixed-methods research investigated English language learning beliefs of Iranian English language learners. Data were collected from 226 junior and senior male and female high school students using the Beliefs about Language Learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Sariçoban, Arif; Karadayioglu, Aybüke – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the levels of language learning strategies employed by A1-A2 level high school students while learning English as a foreign language. In the Turkish formal education system, English is a compulsory subject in all public and private schools, and students start to learn English from 2nd grade at the elementary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Coskun, Abdullah; Yüksel, Yücel – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
The aim of this study is to adapt the Boredom in Practical English Language Classes-Revised (BPELC-R) scale developed by Pawlak, Kruk, Zawodniak and Pasikowski (2020) into the high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context of Turkey and to reveal high school EFL students' level of boredom. Also, the study investigates whether their level…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Attention Control, Predictor Variables
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Eerdemutu Liu; Junju Wang; Sachurina Bai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the potential roles of self-guides (ideal L2 self/outght-to L2 self), enjoyment, and gender in language achievement. A total of 727 Chinese high school students participated in this study and data were collected through a questionnaire survey. Path analysis showed that ideal self was positively related to both enjoyment and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cheng, Jiyun – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
Based on a panel survey filled by seventh grade students, who studied in Shaxi Middle School located in Shaxi, Yunnan, China, after completing a semester of Online English Peer Tutoring Program, the research applied the data collected, including English Exam grades and background information, with Regression and Z-score to analyze the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness
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Orfan, Sayeed Naqibullah – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
Instructional materials are one of the areas in which gender inequality is very easily institutionalised. The study investigated gender representation in high school English textbooks in Afghanistan. High school English textbooks were used as the corpus of the study. A mixed content analysis approach was used to analyse the data. The frequency of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alberth – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2022
Whereas the role of anxiety and enjoyment in predicting learning outcomes is well documented in the literature, the role of these two emotion dimensions in predicting perceived sense of classroom community is rarely discussed in the literature despite the fact that classroom community serves as a good predictor of learning outcomes. Conducted in a…
Descriptors: Prediction, Sense of Community, Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns
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Martin J. Koch; Werner Greve; Kristin Kersten – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Research suggests that heterogeneous life experiences (e.g. multilingualism) might facilitate the development of mental flexibility. The current paper presents the conceptual replication of a study originally presented by Greve and colleagues [Greve, W., Koch, M., Rasche, V., and Kersten, K. (2021). Extending the Scope of the 'Cognitive Advantage'…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism, Transfer of Training, Linguistic Theory
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Zia Tajeddin; Ali Malmir – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Learners' acquisition of pragmatic competence in additional languages has received mounting attention since the 1990s. However, although studies on general learning strategies have proliferated since Oxford's (1990) influential inventory was published, studies on pragmatic-specific learning strategies contributing to the acquisition of this…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
Yusra Albalawi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of test anxiety that high school male and female students experience in English and mathematics classes in Saudi high schools. The study examined test anxiety in both subjects from motivational antecedents and cultural factors that cause test anxiety among students. A mixed-methods study was…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Mathematics Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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Özer, Zekiye; Yetkin, Ramazan – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2022
The current study was conducted to investigate the relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and attitudes towards English. A total 518 Turkish students studying at private and state high schools participated in the study. Quantitative research design was adopted in the present study. Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
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Ahsanah, Finaty – Journal of English Teaching, 2020
In learning English as a foreign language, language learning strategies (LLS) is undoubtedly important. Therefore, most language learners need to employ LLS in learning language effectively. However, LLS have a uniqueness that is each learner may employ LLS differently and it usually depends on some factors. The factors which usually affect LLS…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
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Sasi, Abolfazl Shirban; Haga, Toshinari – World Journal of Education, 2018
Learning Japanese has become very common amongst Taiwanese high school and university students, ranking the second most sought for language. A concise study of the likeable activities in a typical language class for the Taiwanese students seems to be quite useful. Therefore, the present study has concentrated on the senior high school students'…
Descriptors: Japanese, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, High School Students
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Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Guneyli, Serhan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: Numerous studies have been conducted on foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA); however, research on the effect of parents' education, school type, and gender on EFL learners' anxiety in a single study is scarce. Therefore, to fill this niche, the present study aimed at investigating the impact of the above variables on FLCA. Research…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Private Schools
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