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Liu, Meihua; Dong, Lianqi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The present longitudinal study examined the changes in foreign language reading anxiety and its predicting effects on Chinese university students' reading English performance. The 29-item Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS), a background questionnaire and a reading quiz were administered to two intact classes of an English Reading…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Predictor Variables
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Mengxia Fu; Shaofeng Li – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This article reports on a study exploring the associations between foreign language anxiety and the effectiveness of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) in the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and two middle school English as a foreign language (EFL) learners responded to the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Anxiety, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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Pinar Ergül-Bayram; Evrim Eveyik-Aydin – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between the emotional labor and burnout levels of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in language preparatory schools at Turkish universities. Data were collected from 179 EFL teachers from both state and foundation universities, using Turkish adaptations of the Emotional Labor Scale covering…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Barber, Jared David – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
The learning of a second language is distinct from other types of learning, and involves a complex interplay of cognitive, affective, motivational, and emotional factors. Two important factors are language mindsets, the beliefs that learners hold regarding their language learning ability, and foreign language anxiety, the language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Correlation
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Ali Derakhshan; Slamet Setiawan; Mohammad Ghafouri – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
Following the tenets of positive psychology, many researchers have explored the realm of teachers' emotions in the past decades. However, the number of studies observing teachers' psycho-emotional factors from a cross-cultural lens has been negligible. To fill this gap, This study examined the association among apprehension, resilience,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Aghaee, Elham – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Research has indicated the importance of vocabulary knowledge and background knowledge in second/foreign language (L2) listening comprehension. However, previous studies treated these two factors separately, and no study has examined the simultaneous contribution of these two factors to L2 listening comprehension. Therefore, the aim of this study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
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Jalilzadeh, Kaveh; Yeganehpour, Parisa – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
The purpose of this research was to examine the connection between intermediate EFL students' oral performance and their emotional intelligence (EI) as well as desire to communicate (WTC). The main objectives of this research were to examine how willing English-language learners were to communicate, in order to discover whether there was a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety
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Mostafa Azari Noughabi; Behzad Ghonsooly; Safoura Jahedizadeh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Due to the novelty of the concept of language teacher immunity, scant research attention has been dedicated to exploring its personality-based and psychological correlates in language teaching research. To expand the line of research investigating the contributing factors to language teachers' immunity, the present study, informed by positive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Persistence
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Rezazadeh, Mohsen; Zarrinabadi, Nourollah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between need for closure and need for cognition and foreign language anxiety and enjoyment. The participants of the study were 232 EFL learners at a university in Iran. Self-report questionnaires on need for closure, need for cognition, foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Processes
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Yu, Wen Hsuan; Thompson, Eustace G. – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2021
Second language anxiety is an emotional reaction that diminishes second language learners' academic performance. Researchers have identified cognitive and affective factors as contributors to students' classroom anxiety reactions, yet few studies have examined the concurrent effect of those factors. This study employed survey questionnaires to…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Anxiety
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Uztosun, Mehmet Sercan – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study investigates the extent to which variables related to self-regulated speaking motivation contributes to the prediction of foreign language speaking competence and explores whether there is a relationship between these two constructs. The data were collected from 84 Turkish university students using self-regulated motivation for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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D'Angelo, Francesca; Sorace, Antonella – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Previous and current research identify Metalinguistic Awareness (MLA) as a possible cause of the positive effects of bilingualism on cognitive development and Third Language Acquisition (TLA). Although it has been acknowledged that MLA is strongly affected by literacy and grammar-related activities, only a few studies have focused on the context…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metalinguistics
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Kiatkeeree, Jettapol; Ruangjaroon, Sugunya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Past research has found that an individual's academic success, including success in English language learning, can be predicted by a person's 'grit'. Grit is a personality trait defined as the combination of perseverance of effort and consistency of interests. Other than grit, learner engagement is another factor considered to be highly related to…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xian Zhao; Peijian Paul Sun; Man Gong – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided second language (L2) learners with additional challenges regarding how to obtain an enjoyable experience while achieving a better learning attainment. Despite a growing body of studies that substantiated the predictive effect of grit, foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLA)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Persistence
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Demir-Ayaz, Aycan – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
Studies have thus far established that learners with visual and auditory learning styles can create a strong vision of their ideal and ought to L2 selves, which positively affect their motivated L2 behavior and achievement. This study also investigated the interactions between perceptual learning styles, future self-guides, vision, L2 motivation,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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