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Raees Calafato – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Self-development is a crucial aspect of language teaching as it fosters various dimensions of language teacher cognition, affect, and identity, ultimately contributing to better learning outcomes. Most studies on language teacher self-development have examined language teachers' cognitive, affective, and identity-related reactions to particular…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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I. Mañas Navarrete; E. Rosado Villegas; S. Mujcinovic; N. Fullana Rivera – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The Imperfect/Preterite aspectual contrast is one of the most studied topics in Spanish as a second language research. However, there are few works focused on describing the acquisition of modal uses of the Imperfect by L2 speakers. This paper investigates the L1 Russian L2 Spanish speakers' mastery of politeness, evidential and nonfactual modal…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Advanced Students
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Mirabile, Paul Vincent – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2023
To teach English as a second foreign language at university levels provides the educator or professor an excellent occasion to compare the first and second languages by a series of analogical activities that not only highlight the similar forms and structures of them, but more important still, oblige students to comprehend these forms and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ekaterina Tabenkina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present project is a research-based and practice-tested online synchronous curriculum for English language learners with the Russian language mother tongue. The curriculum's theoretical component is grounded in Vygotsky's, Leont'ev', and Engestrom's "Cultural Historical Activity Theory" as well as in scholarly papers on the influence…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Anna Stepanovna Borisova; Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva; Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova; Muhammad Arif Soomro – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Foreign language anxiety (FLA), whose impact is often negative on learners' cognitive processing, happens when a learner pursues a foreign language as a non-native speaker. This study aimed to investigate anxiety in learning English as a foreign language and its influence on learners' cognitive processes. The sample comprised graduate and…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Measures (Individuals)
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Jonathan Trace – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The role of context in cloze tests has long been seen as both a benefit as well as a complication in their usefulness as a measure of second language comprehension (Brown, 2013). Passage cohesion, in particular, would seem to have a relevant and important effect on the degree to which cloze items function and the interpretability of performances…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse, Test Items
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Tabatadze, Shalva – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
Language education and schooling are important topics in post-conflict contexts. This study explores the existing situation of mother tongue education in the de facto Abkhazia. The study had the following research questions: (1) What was the ethnic composition of Abkhazia during the Soviet Union, and how Russian occupation changed it? (2) How well…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnic Groups, Native Language Instruction
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Pattemore, Anastasia; Muñoz, Carmen – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The present study explores the effects of distributed practice by extending this area of research to L2 learning from audiovisual input. A total of 96 L1 Russian elementary to advanced learners of English watched five episodes of captioned TV series under three viewing distribution conditions: longer spacing of viewing once per week; shorter…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Programming (Broadcast), Vocabulary Development, Language Tests
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Piattoeva, Nelli; Smirnova, Valeriia; Santos, Íris – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article analyses discussions in the Russian media of the proposal to introduce the Unified State Exam (USE) in English as a mandatory test in the last year of (high) school education 2010s. The decision not to implement the mandatory USE in English was taken in August 2020. In the aftermath of the decision, we investigate the decade-long…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Antonina Rafikova; Anatoly Voronin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Studying language learning beliefs plays an important role in language learning research. The aim of our study was to reconstruct the system of meanings that underlie the gender differences in the beliefs about people involved in foreign language learning. In our study, we used the semantic differential to study beliefs about people involved in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Beliefs
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Shleykina, Galina – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
In the current conditions of globalization and the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), the notions of pragmatic competence and appropriateness as well as pragmatic failure become of paramount importance to the language learners and instructors. The current article discusses these questions through an approximate replication of Jaworski's…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Demir, Cuneyt – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Writing native-like has always been a primary purpose for non-native writers of English and, accordingly, many language components have been investigated to develop writers' fluency. One of these language components is syntactic complexity (SC), which is often regarded as a reliable way to grade any texts from easy to difficult. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction
Schwartz, Mila, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Language Acquisition, Child Development
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Shakhmalova, Irina; Zotova, Natalia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Educational digital games can be an effective way to teach English grammatical material because they provide an interactive and engaging learning experience. The purpose of this study is to clarify how playing digital games affects students' motivation and performance in university-level English grammar classes. [The North-Eastern Federal…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Evaluation, Educational Games, Computer Games
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Baranova, Tatiana; Mokhorov, Dmitriy; Kobicheva, Aleksandra; Tokareva, Elena – Education Sciences, 2021
(1) Background: based on the constantly increasing requirements for modern university graduates, we have developed an educational model that allows us to introduce content and language integrated learning into classes with a multilingual approach, which will allow students to use several foreign languages in the process of professional…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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