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Bing Mu; LeAnne Spino – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Developing proficiency and intercultural competence are goals promoted by the Modern Language Association and widely shared by postsecondary second language programs across the United States. Although the development of proficiency has been studied extensively in this context, comparatively little is known about how intercultural competence…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Competence, College Second Language Programs
Ji-young Shin; Yujeong Choi – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
The use of AI-powered chatbots has recently been extensively examined for second language (L2) learning. While their positive effects have been widely reported regarding L2 English learning, studies involving less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) are scant. The current study incorporated an AI chatbot called Iruda in L2 Korean teaching, to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, Korean
Jennifer Bruen; Elena López Cuenca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper analyses the language educator's experience of delivering an Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) in an Irish University. It uses a focus group to explore the experiences of six International Language Tutors who delivered modules on a pilot IWLP between 2021 and 2024. The findings indicate that designing and delivering the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Program Implementation, College Second Language Programs
Xiaojuan Gao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mindfulness has been overlooked in previous studies of second or foreign language learning. This study aims to explore the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, burnout and self-perceived foreign language proficiency among a sample of 492 learners. Further, it seeks to make up for the deficiency in the current empirical literature regarding…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Burnout
Cara Dinneen; John Gardiner; Mohammed Sameer; Jeremy Koay; Sharon Cullen; Tony Hickey; Alejandra Vazquez; Jose Lara; Mariela Mazzei – English Australia Journal, 2024
Direct Entry Programs (DEPs) at Australian universities are designed to enhance students' English language and academic skills, with the primary goals of preparing and assuring students' readiness for university studies. Given that university tasks often require the integration of language skills (e.g., writing assignments using information from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, English Language Learners, College Readiness
Norah Banafi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
According to the Saudi Vision 2030, the country will continue focusing on the education system by enhancing the learning environment, curriculum, teaching methods, and digital education and preparing their residents for labor market needs. Therefore, this study focuses on revealing the status of the English language program considering Saudi…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sabrina Link – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
German university degrees, at least in some countries, offer students only German literature courses in addition to language courses. Linguistics is often not a core component of German degree programmes. As a result, students who are not familiar with basic linguistic terminology do not know how languages work, including their mother tongue, or…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Yue Lang; Yingying Liu – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
Chunking, the process of breaking texts into meaningful units, is a fundamental skill in interpreting. This study investigates the potential benefits of a computer-assisted chunking method, visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF) to improve translators' performance. In the study, three passages with similar readability were randomly presented to…
Descriptors: Translation, Syntax, Layout (Publications), Second Languages
Carrie L. Bonilla – Hispania, 2024
This article details the challenges and best practices of evaluating second language learners for placement into postsecondary Spanish language courses. The literature on testing for placement purposes in second language acquisition and language testing provides a great deal of insight, but language programs must make many decisions as well that…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Tests, Placement Tests, Test Validity
Soniya Antony; R. Ramnath; Adil Ellikkal – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
This research study provided a basic understanding of pedagogical translanguaging and its importance in a multilingual classroom environment from the perspective of foreign language class students. The qualitative study, employing interpretive phenomenological analysis, investigated students' viewpoints on pedagogical translanguaging in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Context Effect, Classroom Environment, Student Attitudes
Susanne M. Wagner; Gisela Hoecherl-Alden – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
Given that societies across the globe are increasingly multicultural and multilingual, the notion of communicative competence grounded in constricting definitions of national cultures and languages reflects neither our instructional realities nor the sociolinguistic reality of the languages and cultures we teach. To foster students' development of…
Descriptors: German, German Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As part of its ambitious Belt and Road initiative, the Chinese government, cognizant of the fact that establishing strong people-to-people bonds locally, regionally, and internationally will be key to the initiative's success and that languages will play a pivotal role in facilitating this, has called for the diversification of language programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
Eman Abdel-Reheem Amin – Online Submission, 2024
In the pursuit of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), universities play a pivotal role in driving transformative change. This paper focuses on innovative approaches centered around the role of the English language and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in English language education. The goal is to empower and prepare…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Universities
Emily Edwards; Rosalie Goldsmith; Caroline Havery – English Australia Journal, 2024
In this paper, we present and illustrate four principles used to develop discipline-specific academic language tutorials for students who enter university with low levels of academic language proficiency. The tutorials are part of a university-wide language support program following a post enrolment language assessment (PELA). The principles…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Intensive Language Courses, Academic Language, Second Language Learning