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Mostafa Papi; Phil Hiver – Language Learning, 2025
Second language acquisition theory has traditionally focused on the cognitive and psycholinguistic processes involved in additional language (L2) learning. In addition, research on learner psychology has primarily centered on learners' cognitive abilities (e.g., aptitude and working memory) and internal traits or states (e.g., dispositions,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Theories, Learning Strategies, Linguistic Input
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Azar Tajabadi; Sal Consoli – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Second language (L2) motivation has long been regarded as one of the requisites for and predictors of success in L2 learning. The scholarship on L2 motivation has grown steadily over the past 60 years, yielding several theories through a range of methods. Building upon this tradition, this paper proposes a methodological contribution to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Learning Theories, Language Research
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So Jung Kim; Soyeon Park; Alyse C. Hachey; Iva Li – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study examines how music videos can be implemented in the home context to enhance children's critical engagement with gender representations in children's media. Guided by the conceptual framework drawn from new literacies, critical media literacy, and sociocultural theory, this study employs a multiple case study approach focusing on three…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingualism, Gender Differences, Music
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Yuehai Xiao; Angel Zhao – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Some previous researchers attempted to bridge the gap between two bodies of research: the role of metacognitive knowledge in second language (L2) writing and L2 collaborative writing (CW). Although recent studies unveiled the positive impacts of learners' metacognitive knowledge on L2 collaborative writing, there is not yet consensus regarding the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Collaborative Writing
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Dwight Atkinson; Jorge Mejía-Laguna; Amable Custodio Ribeiro; Marco Cappellini; Hayriye Kayi-Aydar; Wander Lowie – Modern Language Journal, 2025
This complex article has six subsections. Following a brief introduction, one team of three co-authors and three single authors present compact statements of their distinctive individual research perspectives on second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T): Atkinson, Mejía-Laguna, and Ribeiro offer a sociocognitive perspective; Cappellini…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Mahmoud Mohammad Sayed Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This article introduces my C.H.A.T.S. model (Conversational, Holistic, Authentic, Transformative, Situated), a novel pedagogical framework I designed to revolutionize language learning and teaching through the strategic integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational chatbots with established learning theories. The model addresses…
Descriptors: Models, Artificial Intelligence, Second Language Learning, Learning Theories
Mustapha Chmarkh – Online Submission, 2025
Most second language writing studies have approached the L2 Writing phenomenon through the cognitive theoretical lens that situates writing as a mental activity that resembles psychological and mathematical problem-solving (Cumming, 2016, p. 69). "While research on second language writing has expanded exponentially in recent years, it has for…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Models, Writing Instruction
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Ha Thanh Bich Loan; Trinh Quoc Lap; Bui Le Diem Trang – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study conducts a systematic review of research articles related to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' motivation under Organismic Integration Theory (OIT) in the early 2020s (between 2020 and 2024), based on PRISMA statement 2020 (Page et al., 2021), to find out about what recent trends in research on EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Ali H. Al-Hoorie; W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin; Phil Hiver; Joseph P. Vitta – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Self-determination theory is one of the most established motivational theories both within second language learning and beyond. This theory has generated several mini-theories, namely: organismic integration theory, cognitive evaluation theory, basic psychological needs theory, goal contents theory, causality orientations theory, and relationships…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Futures (of Society)
Noriko Iwashita; Phung Dao; Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book provides an overview and analysis of the role that classroom interaction plays in instructed second language acquisition. The authors synthesise current state-of-the-art research on how classroom interaction benefits L2 learning through the lens of three theoretical perspectives: cognitive-interactionist (with a focus on how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Socialization, Language Usage
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Sylvia Pantaleo – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
During a 10-week classroom-based study in a school in western Canada, 17 Kindergarten children had multiple opportunities to learn about how elements of visual art, design and layout in picturebook artwork are fundamental to meaning-making when transacting with this format of literature. Student application of learning about the concepts under…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Visual Arts, Art Education, Art Products
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Malihe YarAhmadi; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Traditional approaches to language assessment have been criticized for their inadequacy in taking account of language learners' potential for development. To obviate this pitfall in traditional assessment, language teachers and researchers have been paying increasing attention to dynamic assessment (DA), which is rooted in Vygotsky's (1978)…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
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Han Zheng; Mark Barba Pacheco; Julie C. Brown – Language and Education, 2025
Our study examines the scaffolding strategies employed by secondary biology teachers to support multilingual learners (MLs) in engaging with Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Rooted in sociocultural theory, we focus on the integration of academic language in disciplinary practices. Data from video-recorded observations of 12 secondary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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Yeqing Tao; Samah Ali Mohsen Mofreh; Sultan Salem – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study investigates the impact of perezhivanie, a concept encompassing emotional experiences and their personal significance on English-speaking proficiency and speaking anxiety among Chinese learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The study focuses on the emotional and cognitive dimensions of perezhivanie to understand its dual role…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Wei Li – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
The field of second language acquisition (SLA) research had long been governed by a paradigm that prioritized cognition over emotion. Recently, increased attention has been drawn to the role of "perezhivanie" in language development as Vygotsky's sociocultural theory (SCT) brought together emotion and cognition, thereby offering an…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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