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Pablo Aedo Cancino – HOW, 2025
The article presents a pedagogical experience with a course of undergraduate students from various programs. The main objectives were to improve their oral skills in English, increase their self-confidence, reduce language-specific anxiety, and provide individual prospective feedback. An action research design was employed, adhering to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intervention
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Ramos Asafo-Adjei; Frances Betty Fraikue; Elvis ResCue – Discover Education, 2025
The role of the English language in the Ghanaian hospitality industry was explored in this study. Specifically, the research question addressed is: what is the role of the English language in the Ghanaian hospitality industry? Using the quantitative descriptive survey research design, a questionnaire survey was carried out among all first year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Role, Hospitality Occupations
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Christina L. Dobbs; Christine Montecillo Leider – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Foundational skills are often viewed as necessary components for automaticity in reading and writing. In this study, we draw on teacher interviews to explore what secondary English/language arts teachers identify as necessary language for successful school writing. Findings suggest that teachers believe White mainstream English is a necessary…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Secondary School Teachers, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes
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Beatriz Chaves-Yuste; Cristina De-La-Peña; Mercedes Pérez Agustín – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Vocational Education and Training (VET) is undergoing an international and national improvement process in order to achieve internationalization, among others. To this end, it is necessary to optimize the EFL level of VET students. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to analyze the direct and indirect effects of English language anxiety,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Vocational Education
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Saeko Toyoshima – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines whether technology-based performance tasks can mediate communicating in English and enhance language learner engagement. This study investigated how low-proficiency Japanese English-language learners could change their attitude toward communicating in their target language by completing a performance task that involved making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Takunori Terasawa; So Sudo; Takeshi Kajigaya; Ryosuke Aoyama; Ryuko Kubota – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper examines recent reforms in English-language testing in Japan using a policy distraction framework. We identify the term 'washback (effect)' and other related discourses as major distractors and investigate how 'washback' discourses have functioned as political slogans or catchphrases in policy deliberation processes and how they have…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nieporowski, Piotr; Steciag, Magdalena; Zábranský, Lukáš – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The following article attempts to characterise the current changes in the communication of people living in the area of Polish-Czech borderland based on the results of the study conducted in 2018 and 2019. The aim is to determine the dominant mode of supranational communication, as well as the reason behind its prevalence by analysing the language…
Descriptors: Polish, Slavic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nydia Martínez; Gina Mikel Petrie; Catherine Nolan-Ferrell – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study counters the popular assumption that Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLLs) on study abroad (SA) in a place of cultural origin can easily adapt and find acceptance due to the linguistic and cultural resources they bring with them. Our study builds on previous work to illustrate a more nuanced and complex story of desires for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish, Native Language
Dominguez-Fret, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A vast amount of Latina/o/x students enroll in US public schools with the potential to become bilingual in English and Spanish. However, this potential is often dismissed, ignored, and their Spanish is perceived as a problem to be overcome. Despite this, some Latina/o/x bilingual students decide to become Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL)…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Students, Spanish, Native Language
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Paola Uccelli – Grantee Submission, 2023
Language-in-education research can contribute to transformative progress toward educational equity and excellence. Although this assertion is likely uncontroversial within the field of language in education, agreeing on which types of research lead to which transformative progress is much less straightforward. The thought-provoking commentaries on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism, Language of Instruction
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Wongpuchit Chulee; Ketwadee Khanom; Natrut Chesa; Mohammed Yassin Mohd Aba Sha'ar; Chamaiporn Buddharat – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This study aims to investigate why the Thai EFL learners at Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University (NSTRU) cannot speak English fluently and examine the internal factors that demotivate them from speaking English either in class or in daily life situations. To achieve these objectives, 316 male and female learners were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Seis, Zekiye – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2023
This study aimed to explore Turkish EFL learners' perceptions and opinions on using online lab during their language learning process. Online lab is one of the educational systems named virtual learning environments (VLEs) that contribute to EFL learners' language learning process. In this research, the participants were twelve students enrolled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
Mackenzie, Lee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This article critically analyses the extent to which research in the field of English and development in the global South supports the claim that English can contribute to development. Particular reference is made to the Colombian context, which, along with several other countries in Latin America, has prioritised English language teaching in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Planning
Easlick, Kathleen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This paper presents a thematic analysis of public sector discourse on the values assigned to regional minority and community languages within the UK and Finland. This paper draws from semi-structured interviews conducted in Manchester, Cardiff, Helsinki, and Rovaniemi. Two key themes emerged from the interview data: "Language as a Resource…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Social Integration, Language Role
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Bruzos, Alberto – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
YouTube polyglots are an online community whose origin can be traced to the late 2000s, when language learning forums and YouTube videos of language learning enthusiasts began appearing online. This article draws on critical discourse analysis to examine the discourses of language learning that are manifest in polyglot videos and websites. It also…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Video Technology, Web Sites, Multilingualism
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