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Thi Minh Chau Tran; Bao Trang Thi Nguyen; Pham Thi Hong Nhung; Lien-Huong Vo; Van Huy Nguyen – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Our study examined the difficulties Vietnamese Masters (MA) in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages) students encountered while writing their MA theses. Using a a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, data were collected from 29 MA TESOL students who had completed their theses at a university in central Vietnam. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Theses, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Chang Liu; Meihua Chen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study employs a mixed-methods design to explore the attitudes and expressed beliefs of Chinese postgraduate students regarding the strategic use of their entire range of languages in English academic writing (EAW). The survey findings suggest that while students generally accept the idea of mixing languages during the writing process, they…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Sakol Suethanapornkul; Sarut Supasiraprapa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Usage-based theories hold that mental representation of language is shaped by a lifetime of usage. Both input to which first language (L1) and second language (L2) users are exposed and their own language production affect their construction learning and entrenchment. The present study investigates L2 users' knowledge of two…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yohanes Bagas Nur Setiawan; Paschalis Kurniawan Sanjaya; Martinus Hergirico Riandana; Concilianus Laos Mbato – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
In the post-pandemic situation, where hybrid learning has become prevalent, effective communication between lecturers and students is very important. Self-efficacy is a crucial factor that affects their communication or speaking in class. Nowadays, research on students' self-efficacy in speaking has received considerable attention among…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Blended Learning
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Siqing Mu; Lili Han; Zhisheng Wen – Language and Education, 2025
In recent years, language portraits (LPs) have emerged as a valuable tool for visually representing multilingual learners' linguistic repertoires. However, previous studies have primarily relied on traditional methods of inviting participants to sketch their language portraits on paper using pens and crayons. In this paper, we propose the use of…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism
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Yiran Zhang; Mostafa Papi – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
The present study employs regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997) to investigate the effects of L2 speakers' chronic regulatory focus on their L2 pragmatic versus grammatical awareness. It involved the participation of 121 Chinese students, who are English language learners, at a university in the United States. Haws et al.'s (2010) questionnaire…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Yanfeng Mao; Wendi Adair; Jianhong Su – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This longitudinal inductive research unpacks the process of African post-secondary students' Chinese language identity (CLI) with the purpose of exploring a model of CLI development. We traced how 12 multilingual African students developed their CLI during the first year in a Chinese university. Data coded from three rounds of interviews conducted…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Will Baker; Yusop Boonsuk; Jaewon Jane Ra; Chittima Sangiamchit; Navaporn Snodin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Key claimed benefits of internationalizing higher education (HE) are increased intercultural interaction and awareness with internationally oriented universities aiming to produce graduates who are intercultural or global citizens. Yet, there have been few core strategies presented on how international HE programmes might realize such aims, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zilal Meccawy; Najwan Sebai – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This qualitative study uses a semi-structured interview to investigate why Saudi learners stop learning a third language and whether these reasons are permanent or temporary. The participants were six female master's degree students who had experience learning a third language outside of formal education or informal settings. This study identifies…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes, Social Media
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Yi Zhu; Mary Bresnahan; Yichao Wang; Xiaodi Yan; Syed Ali Hussain – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study investigated more than 3600 online comments responding to an incident in 2019 where a controversial memo was sent to instruct Chinese graduate students at a US university not to speak Chinese in the department. A text analysis based on Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software showed that these comments included more negative-emotion…
Descriptors: Responses, Internet, Graduate Students, Chinese
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Xiao Zhang; Christiane Lütge – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
International students' attitudes towards teachers' codeswitching to the first language (L1) have not been adequately investigated in cross-cultural English-medium instruction (EMI) settings, where teachers and international students do not share the same L1 while they interact in English as a lingua franca (ELF). To fill that void, this study…
Descriptors: Universities, Code Switching (Language), German, English (Second Language)
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Wenyangzi Shi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Translanguaging effectively affirms international students' diverse language practices and linguistic and cultural identities. Although it may appear evident that their multilingual and multicultural identities and experiences inevitably influence their translanguaging experiences, few studies have examined how their identities affect their…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
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Hyejeong Ahn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study examines the language use of 1,333 students taking English medium instruction (EMI) courses in four elite universities in South Korea. It employs a quantitative method with qualitative comments. The study investigates three language practice issues in EMI courses, including: (i) the extent of use of English in EMI courses, (ii)…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Xiao Zhang; Christiane Lütge; Lili Zou – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Although there is a body of research on the teacher first language (L1) use in English-medium-instruction (EMI) classrooms, very little research has probed into how international students perceive local teacher L1 use and their learning practices in the English as a lingua franca (ELF) context. To address the gap, the present case study explored a…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, German
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Jing Chen; Yi Jiang – SAGE Open, 2025
Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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