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Jeffrey Dawala Wilang; Jebamani Anthoney; Alvina Kullu Sulankey – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
This study examines high school students' beliefs about studying English, particularly their perceptions of language intelligence, aptitude, and age sensitivity in language learning. A total of 87 Year 12 students from a boys' school in Northeastern Thailand voluntarily participated in a pre-and post-intervention online language mindset…
Descriptors: High School Students, Error Patterns, Learning Processes, English (Second Language)
Raees Calafato – Language Awareness, 2025
Language teachers cannot help their students develop high levels of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude if they themselves are found lacking in these abilities. This article reports on a study that utilised a descriptive correlational mixed-methods research design to gather data from 89 multilingual teachers of English, Chinese, French,…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Bulelwa Makena; Viwe Lungisani Feni – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
To unlock language proficiency among learners, speaking is regarded to be an essential and crucial aspect to master, not only for learning purposes but for recognized communication dynamics. Language learning has numerous critical aspects. To be lacking in speaking proficiencies has been noted to impart negatively toward language learning. This…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tabassum Maqbool, Editor; Luna Yue Lang, Editor – IntechOpen, 2024
"Second Language Acquisition -- Learning Theories and Recent Approaches" will aim to present the process of learning an additional language apart from one's native language. The process of understanding, writing, and speaking another language with fluency involves complex intellectual and emotional responses as well as continuous…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
Li, Jing; McLellan, Ros; Forbes, Karen – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Language education has long been considered a female domain across many countries, with girls outnumbering and outperforming boys. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the nature and structure of gender stereotypes favouring girls among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. In the quantitative strand, 60 teachers from six…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Language Teachers, Gender Differences, Second Language Learning
Toffoli, Denyze – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2020
This book takes a fresh look at both context and the language learner in an attempt to shed light on the holistic and ever-changing system of the contemporary L2 speaker's language development. Drawing on complex dynamic systems theory as a means to more fully understand the holistic nature of contemporary language learning, the author attempts to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Informal Education
Keegan, Kelly – English Teaching Forum, 2017
In 2007, a group of researchers proposed the term "grit" to describe a trait in people who have the diligence and endurance to keep working for a goal in spite of various setbacks, such as extended lengths of time to reach the goal, changing interests, or other problems encountered along the way (Duckworth et al. 2007). According to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Personality Traits
Telaumbanua, Yohannes – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The facts disclosed that Indonesian English Department (ED) students have difficulty disassembling the SIM and SPOSS in a practical sense. This happens because the SofLP as a fundamental theory and poem as the authentic learning medium to dismantle the Speaker's Intended Meaning (SIM) and Speaker's Purpose-Oriented Speech Situation (SPOSS) have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Nour Abuateyh – NORDSCI, 2023
This qualitative research aims at exploring the language policy in Dubai's schools and highlight the areas that can be improved from theory to practice. There was the use of a Survey, Semi-Structured Interviews, and Secondary Data (Policy Documents). Purposive sampling was used to choose research participants with Survey Participants being taken…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Language Usage
Véliz-Campos, Mauricio – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018
The study aimed to establish whether there is a relationship between L2 aptitude, pronunciation learning strategies (PLSs), and pronunciation performance in pre-service English language teachers in Chile. In so doing, the study also uncovers PLS use by the participants. Through a correlational and statistically descriptive methodology, all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Learning Strategies, Preservice Teachers
Tavakol, Mahbube; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Ketabi, Saeed – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
The present study compared L2 and L3 learners of the same additional language in two parallel case studies framed within a Vygotskyan SCT perspective to examine how foreign language learners' background knowledge impacts on the path of their development. Interactive data were collected on the development of interrogative formation by four Persian…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Research
Phakiti, Aek; Plonsky, Luke – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
This article aims to discuss ten beliefs that teachers hold about second language (L2) learning and to relate these to relevant theories and approaches in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). It is especially written for L2 teachers who would like to know more about theoretical approaches that seek to explain L2 learning. Preliminary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Tezel, Kadir Vefa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Language is normally associated with linguistic capabilities of individuals. In the theory of multiple intelligences, language is considered to be related primarily to linguistic intelligence. Using the theory of Multiple Intelligences as its starting point, this descriptive survey study investigated to what extent prospective English teachers'…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Scores, Selection Criteria, Multiple Intelligences
Alaee, Mitra – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2015
The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers' Professional Identity and their types of Multiple Intelligences. Moreover, it aimed to see the extent to which their multiple intelligences can predict their professional identity. The participants of the study were 137 Iranian EFL teachers teaching in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Multiple Intelligences, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Sparks, Richard L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
Despite the lack of empirical evidence, the term "foreign language learning disability" (FLLD) has become popular in the learning disabilities (LD) and foreign language literature. I contend that there is not a unique "disability" for foreign language learning and suggest instead that foreign language skills run along a continuum of very strong to…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Second Language Learning, Language Skills
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