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Zhang, Tiejun; Zheng, Jiali – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the theoretical structure of the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) developed for assessing ESL students' use of metacognitive reading strategies. The data for this study were collected from 1,431 Chinese college students whose second language (L2) was English. Both explanatory factor analysis (EFA) and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yang, Lan; Mohd, Rashid Bin Saad – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
The purpose of this research is mainly to explore the validity and reliability of PERMA instruments to determine the nature of PERMA for Chinese university EFL students. A total of 309 Chinese university EFL students from 10 universities in Gansu province were investigated. Selected by cluster random sampling, the extracted data from the survey…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Yasuda, Toshinori – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2019
One of the major issues in L2 learning and cognitive styles is the ambiguity of these concepts. A solution to this issue should involve the following two aspects. First, studies of factorial validity should be conducted with empirical data, and with an appropriate analysis using a theoretically well-developed scale. Second, such studies should…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Schat, Esther; van der Knaap, Ewout; de Graaff, Rick – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
Intercultural competence is a crucial element of foreign language education, yet the multifaceted nature of this construct makes it inherently difficult to assess. Although several tools for evaluating intercultural competence currently exist, research on their use in secondary school settings is scarce. This study reports on the development and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gu, Peter Yongqi – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article reports on the updating and validation of a questionnaire for vocabulary learning strategies. An English as a second language (ESL) version of the "Vocabulary Learning Questionnaire" (VLQ), first published in Gu and Johnson (1996), was created based on its latest version. Two response formats were piloted, that is, a paper…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alavi, Seyyed Mohammad; Ghaemi, Hamed – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
The present study investigates the construct validation of Translation Competence Questionnaire (TCQ) in the context of Iran. For this purpose, one hundred ninety seven EFL learners, whose major was translation studies at Tabaran, Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran, were asked to participate in the study and fill in the questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Translation, Competence
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Khatib, Mohammad; Nourzadeh, Saeed – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
The current study was undertaken with the purpose of developing and validating a willingness to communicate (WTC) questionnaire for instructional language teaching and learning contexts. Six instructional WTC (IWTC) components were identified after (1) undertaking a comprehensive review of the literature on second language (L2) WTC and other…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Validity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Peng, Jian – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
The measurement of willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) has been pervasive in quantitative research particularly in the context of structural equation modeling. An important prerequisite for this line of research is to establish the psychometric properties of the instrument used to measure L2 WTC. This study involves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication
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Komiyama, Reiko – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2013
Characteristics of English for Academic Purposes students' second language (L2) motivation were examined by identifying underlying motivational factors. Using the motivation constructs created by first language reading researchers, a survey was developed and administered to 2,018 students from 53 English language programs in the U.S. Survey…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
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Tragant, Elsa; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Victori, Mia – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2013
The present work aims to contribute to our understanding of the underlying dimensions of language learning strategies in foreign language contexts. The study analyzes alternative factor structures underlying a recently developed instrument (Tragant and Victori, 2012) and it includes the age factor in the examination of its construct validity. The…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Validity, Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies
Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Xue, Yange; Kopack, Ashley; Induni, Marta; Moiduddin, Emily – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
As part of Phase 3 of the Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study (UPCOS-3), Mathematica Policy Research worked with the First 5 LA Children and Families Commission and Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) to conduct a descriptive study of the characteristics of classrooms in LAUP programs during winter 2010. This study has a particular focus…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Myers, Pamela J. – 1979
A Foreign Language Enrollment Motivation Inventory was administered to 400 secondary school foreign language students in Minnesota. The following considerations were found to be influences on decisions by students to continue or not to continue language study: (1) language classroom activities, (2) interest in speaking the target language, (3)…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Research, Factor Structure, Language Attitudes