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Young, Barbara N.; Snead, Donald – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Enrollment of Saudi Arabian International students' in United States institutions of higher learning has increased substantially over the years since King Abdullah initially launched the Saudi scholarship program in 2005 that was renewed in 2010 and funded an outward flow of Saudi student, including females, to universities worldwide. A commitment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Experience
Cruz, Selwyn A.; Pariña, Jose Cristina M. – Online Submission, 2017
Stemming from issue of migration for education, the study explored the language learning experience of Korean university students who come to the Philippines for education. Specifically, it documented the changes in the students' implicit and explicit knowledge that occurred in the preactional until the actional phase of their learning journey in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Knowledge Level, Context Effect
Taylor, Georgia; Ali, Nadia – Education Sciences, 2017
There is a considerable amount of research investigating students' transition from college to university but it is important this focus is directed specifically towards the transition of international students, as the difficulties they face are profound. The literature surrounding international students seems to lack an in-depth understanding of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
Xu, Linjing; Xiong, Qingxia; Qin, Yufang – World Journal of Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of contexts in the memory of meaning in foreign vocabularies. The study was based on the cognitive processing hierarchy theory of Craik and Lockhart (1972), the memory trace theory of McClelland and Rumelhart (1986) and the memory trace theory of cognitive psychology. The subjects were non-English…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Memorization, Cognitive Psychology, Role
Du, Hang – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article is part of a longitudinal study of American college students studying Mandarin in China. Its main data are drawn from monthly speaking events (four sessions with each student) conducted in Chinese with each of 29 participants in a study-abroad program in China. The study yielded these results: (a) Students made significant progress in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Longitudinal Studies, College Students
Kaur, Dalwinder; Yong, Esther; Zin, Norhayati Mohd; DeWitt, Dorothy – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Even though technology is known to have a transformative effect on teaching and learning, videos are not widely used as an instructional tool in the classrooms in Malaysia. This paper focuses on using videos a cognitive stimulator and an instructional tool especially in tertiary ESL classrooms. This paper the potential of using videos for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Payant, Caroline – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
Due to the growing number of plurilingual learners in the world today (Hammarberg, 2010), the present multiple case study examines four plurilingual participants' beliefs toward first language (L1) and second language (L2) mediation in the acquisition of French as a third language (L3). During a 16-week classroom-based study in a French university…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Glisan, Eileen W.; Swender, Elvira; Surface, Eric A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
The renewed national focus on teacher quality and effectiveness has resulted in more rigorous standards that describe the knowledge and skills required of teacher candidates across all disciplines. In the area of foreign languages, three sets of professional standards address the oral proficiency of teachers in the target languages they teach…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Teacher Effectiveness, Standards
Chou, I-Chia – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
For students in a perspective English teacher program, enhancing language proficiency and teaching knowledge is essential so that they can participate in the teaching community. This study investigated the acquisition of an unfamiliar discursive practice by four undergraduate students in a perspective EFL teacher training program. The practice is…
Descriptors: Context Effect, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Canner, Marc T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationships between working memory (WM) and three commonly used learning strategies or conditions in the nature of proficiency among adult L2 Russian learners. Based on the aptitude-learning condition interaction framework articulated by Robinson (2002b), the study identifies two types of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Russian, Accuracy, Language Fluency
rad, Shadi Khojasteh; Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah – English Language Teaching, 2012
Hesitation strategies appear in speech in the form of filled or unfilled pauses, paralinguistic markers like nervous laughter or coughing, or signals which are used to justify units in the coming utterances in which the speaker struggles to produce. The main functions of these forms of hesitation strategies have been associated with speech…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
DeKeyser, Robert – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
In an effort to understand better how and why accuracy in speaking develops during study abroad, a group of 16 U.S. students of Spanish as a second language were followed during their 6-week program in Argentina. They were interviewed in Spanish at the beginning and the end of their stay, each time followed by a stimulated recall session. They…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Aptitude Tests, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Shokouhi, Hussein; Angameh, Farzad – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper is intended to investigate the interplay between proficiency and gender in the use of communication strategies. Sixty Iranian university male and female subjects studying English took part in the experiment and performed two tasks: word recognition and picture-story narration. The results indicate that proficiency had a more perceptible…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Language Proficiency, Gender Differences, Word Recognition
Mohamed, Abdul Rashid; Tumin, Mahani; Omar, Hamzah – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
This is an investigation into the accelerated acquisition of English among young ESL learners in an International School. It employed an ethnographic case study approach where data were gathered through non-participant observations, unstructured interviews, relevant documents, students' portfolios, field notes and biographical details. The sample…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Ethnography

Fulcher, Glenn – Language Testing, 1997
Describes a reliability and validity study of the placement test used at the University of Surrey, England, to identify students requiring English language support while studying at the university level. The study examines administrative and logistic constraints and assesses the test's usefulness within this context. (21 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, Educational Administration, English (Second Language)
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