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Shaista Irshad Khan; Shawana Fazal; Farrukh Nazir – SAGE Open, 2025
This qualitative study investigated the perceptions of prospective teachers on critical thinking (CT) skills before and after completing the Functional English (FE) course at the Bachelor of Education Honors (B.Ed. Hons) and Associate Degree in Education (ADE). A purposive sampling technique was employed to select 40 participants, with eight…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Honors Curriculum, Critical Thinking
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Fang Zhang; Wenjun Yu; Hao Xu – SAGE Open, 2025
This paper reports on a study that investigates the impact of learning multiple foreign languages on learners' social emotional competence development as mediated by the number of foreign languages and the recency of the learning experience. A questionnaire survey that involved 465 Chinese learners of foreign languages was administered that…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Surveys
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Mohd Nazim; Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi – SAGE Open, 2025
This study, inspired by Vision 2030 and Saudi education reforms, offers a comprehensive framework for teachers and educators. It identifies English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perspectives on online and in-person professional development practices (PDPs). Through the descriptive survey research design, data was collected from (N = 85)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Zhao Shurong; Song Junxia – SAGE Open, 2025
Emotional experiences significantly affect students' health, learning outcomes, productivity, and social interactions. Therefore, investigating learners' emotional experiences in typical technology-related scenarios during the information age is crucial and meaningful. Utilizing assessment to bridge online and offline activities serves as a…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Blended Learning, College Students, Online Courses
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Ali, Ashraf; Khan, Raja Muhammad Ishtiaq; Alouraini, Abdullah – SAGE Open, 2023
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the transformation of educational institutions across the globe by implementing online and blended learning, which becomes an important aspect of the instruction and learning processes. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of both online and blended learning methods on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Min Gao; Jiancheng Qian; Ushba Rasool – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigates the impact of task-induced involvement and time on task on incidental second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Utilizing a 3 (task-induced involvement) × 2 (time on task) × 2 (post-test time) research design, three task-induced involvement conditions were employed based on the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH): reading…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Incidental Learning, Task Analysis, Correlation
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Jorge Rodríguez-Arce; Esteban Vázquez-Cano; Juan Pablo Cobá Juárez-Pegueros; Salvador González-García – SAGE Open, 2023
Previous works reveal that there is potential in the use of mobile devices as a useful tool to help learn new vocabulary and it allows the learning materials can be displayed with different Learning Content Representation (LCR) types. Nevertheless, there are no conclusive results about which LCR type is better to improve L2 vocabulary acquisition…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
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Zhonggen Yu – SAGE Open, 2023
The past several years have been witnessing the fast development of information and communication technology, with which an increasing number of serious games are being designed and developed. Randomly selected participants were divided into the treatment and control cohorts. Two experiments, as well as a semi-structured interview, were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Game Based Learning
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Becirovic, Senad; Dubravac, Vildana; Brdarevic-Celjo, Amna – SAGE Open, 2022
The importance of applying cooperative learning and aiming toward an increase in motivation to maximize the effectiveness of the learning process has not sparked an intense research interest in the Bosnian EFL context. Thus, the current study, conducted among 211 high-school participants, explores the impact of gender and grade level on students'…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Learning Processes
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Chen, Ruihua; Gong, Yafu; Liu, Yanghe; Cheng, Wen – SAGE Open, 2023
This systematic review aims to identify the research trend and gap of strategy-based instruction research in second or foreign language domain from 2000 to 2021. The study involves both bibliometric and content analysis. To gain an overall understanding of the research on strategy-based instruction, this study employs keywords co-occurrence…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Content Analysis
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Hengbin Yan – SAGE Open, 2025
This systematic review synthesizes recent trends in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research, examining 149 empirical studies published in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals between 2014 and 2023. Employing a six-dimensional coding framework, we investigated participants, pedagogical methods, research methods, research foci,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Language Research, Educational Trends, English for Special Purposes
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Nan Hu; Ci Zhang – SAGE Open, 2025
While research into strategy-based instruction and language learning emotions has been thriving over decades as respective domains, research on how strategy-based interventions may influence learners' writing enjoyment has largely remained unexplored. Informed by (Positive Psychology) PP theories, this mixed-methods study aims to investigate the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Wen Liu; Zhen-fang Xie – SAGE Open, 2024
Although recent years have seen a growing interest in students' experiences of boredom in foreign language learning, scant attention has been paid to this negative emotion in online live classes. With a mixed-methods approach, this study investigated what factors were responsible for student boredom in online live classes and what made Chinese…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Peer Influence, Internet
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Feng Qiu – SAGE Open, 2024
This study confers certain psychological factors that may affect the learning process of the students such as self-construal, demotivation, and disengagement. Nevertheless, extensive work has been accomplished on the theme of individuals' motivation and engagement within numerous domains across the world. How self-construal (SC), demotivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Junjian Liang; Zaibo Long – SAGE Open, 2024
Students' perceived teacher support (SPTS) is considered crucial to students' learning. But most existing SPTS scales were developed for the field of general education, and there is a lack of studies that attempt to develop a tailored scale specifically for the context of EFL learning. This study interviewed 86 Chinese college EFL learners and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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