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Direct linkPeijian Paul Sun; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Engagement plays an important role in students' success in learning. While learner engagement has been widely examined, the degree to which learners engage in online learning and the relationship between online engagement and learning outcomes, particularly in the domain of second/foreign (L2) language learning, still remain under-explored. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Electronic Learning
Download full textDerakhshan, Ali; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Zhaleh, Kiyana – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Drawing on the rhetorical/relational goal theory, this study examined the role of instructor clarity and non-verbal immediacy in affective learning through the mediation of instructor understanding. Data were gathered through close-ended questionnaires from 756 Chinese and 715 Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students, the factor…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ruane, Colum – TESL-EJ, 2020
An approximate replication of Yashima, Zenuk-Nishide, and Shimizu (2004), the main focus of this study was on the relationship between L2 WTC and International Posture in an ESL environment. International Posture measures the degree of connectedness to the international community from within an EFL context. However, attitudes may change when there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Vafaee, Payman; Suzuki, Yuichi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The main purpose of the current study was to examine the relative significance of vocabulary knowledge (VK) and syntactic knowledge (SK) in second language (L2) listening ability, while accounting for the effect of several cognitive and affective factors. A total of 263 English-as-a-foreign-language learners took a standardized listening test…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Memory, Language Tests
Mulyono, Herri; Saskia, Regitha – Cogent Education, 2021
Literature has suggested the role of affective variables such as self-confidence, motivation, and anxiety in second and foreign language learners' willingness to communicate in conventional language learning classrooms. However, little has been explored regarding the association of such affective variables inside and outside the classroom and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Jin, Yinxing; de Bot, Kees; Keijzer, Merel – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The study explores the effects of teacher support and student cohesiveness on foreign language (FL) learning outcomes and compares their effect with that of FL anxiety. One hundred and forty-six first-year Chinese undergraduates of Japanese, who were also learning English, participated in two surveys that were administered over a 2-month interval.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Correlation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Otwinowska, Agnieszka; Forys, Malgorzata – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is a teaching method in which learners develop linguistic competence and problem-solving abilities by learning content subjects in another language. However, learners' cognitive gains may depend on their affectivity. Negative affect hampers complex cognitive processing essential for problem-solving,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, Course Content
Knell, Ellen; Chi, Yanping – International Education, 2012
Early English immersion in China has been studied from many angles, but no research to date has investigated affective variables, which may have a profound relevance to successful English acquisition. The present study examines the roles of motivation, attitudes towards learning English, willingness to communicate, perceived competence, language…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Chang, Yu-Ping – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
This study aimed to (1) integrate relevant language learning models and theories, (2) construct a theoretical model of college students' English learning performance, and (3) assess the model fit between empirically observed data and the theoretical model proposed by the researchers of this study. Subjects of this study were 1,129 Taiwanese EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Models
Strebel Halpern, Carine S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The explicit teaching of reading comprehension strategies has been proposed as a means to better prepare secondary school-aged students for today's information-dense, fast-paced, fast-changing global society, and to improve the academic performance of struggling adolescent readers. This proposition of a direct and positive impact of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests
Wei, Ming – TESL-EJ, 2007
This study examines the motivational pattern in relation to the anxiety of Chinese learners of English. Based on a survey consisting of an anxiety questionnaire and a motivation questionnaire, the findings revealed an unbalanced pattern of two types of motivation clusters that resembled the integrative-instrumental duality, with the level of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
