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Mark Feng Teng – Language Learning Journal, 2025
This study first validates a survey on self-regulated vocabulary learning strategies. It then examines the effects on the acquisition of new second language (L2) words from a reading text of three word-focused exercise conditions: reading + marginal glosses, reading + gap-fill and reading + sentence writing. It also evaluates the extent to which…
Descriptors: Self Management, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies, Short Term Memory
Xiaojuan Gao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mindfulness has been overlooked in previous studies of second or foreign language learning. This study aims to explore the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, burnout and self-perceived foreign language proficiency among a sample of 492 learners. Further, it seeks to make up for the deficiency in the current empirical literature regarding…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Burnout
Lanlan Li; Kun Wang; Jiliang Chen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Learner autonomy has received growing interest from researchers and educators since the 1980s. Autonomous learners are supposed to monitor their progress and assess their performance. The present study investigated the effects of learner factors on the scorer reliability of self- and peer-assessment of EFL (English as foreign language) writing…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
Yang, Yanfeng; Qian, David D. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Built on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Dynamic Assessment (DA) integrates teaching and assessment through mediator-learner interactions to promote learner development. This study employed interactionist DA to diagnose Chinese university EFL learners' reading difficulties and promote their reading proficiency in a seven-week study. The design…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Evaluation Methods
Tang, Youjun; Ma, Xiaomei – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
This article explores the value of dynamic assessment (DA) for college English writing (CEW), a required course for millions of students in China that typically enrolls 50 students in each class. An interventionist approach to DA, in which mediation and administration are standardized, was selected and supplemented with a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Evaluation Methods, College Second Language Programs, Writing Instruction
Zhang, Lequn – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
In order to speed up international cooperation and exchange, the government is encouraging higher education institutions to provide more foreign language courses in addition to English in light of China's progress in reform and opening up. This study used interview and questionnaire surveys to analyze the current state of German language education…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, German, Second Language Learning, Student Experience
Zhibin Shan; Hao Xu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Whilst the existing literature on multilingual learning in curriculum has properly addressed a variety of instructional factors, few studies have been dedicated to investigating the influence of institutionalisation as a contextual, power-laden factor on multilingual curriculum which in turn influences multilingual learning. To fill this gap, this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Xiaoran Xu; Lei Mee Thien – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study intends to extend the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model by integrating perceived enjoyment as an intrinsic motivation so as to investigate factors influencing Chinese undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' intention to use ChatGPT for English learning.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Software
Handong Li; Sook Jhee Yoon – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
With the wide adoption of the blended approach by language practitioners, blended language learning (BLL) has developed into a new area in applied linguistics. Much research has been conducted on pedagogical innovation, technological tools, users' perceptions and the creation of the BLL environment. Concerning the establishment of a BLL…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, College Second Language Programs, Cultural Influences
Wang, Jianwei – English Language Teaching, 2021
Lexical approach has been believed to be an ideal way for language teaching and learning, but few empirical studies are concerned with the effects that lexical approach has on art major students' English writing. This study aims to explore the effects the lexical has on writing through an experiment in which the lexical approach was applied in an…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Art Education, Majors (Students), Writing Improvement
Ping Zhao; Chunling Sun; Baojun Lv; Lan Guo; Jiansheng Gao; Xin Zhao; Fengming Jiao – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
This paper discusses the application value of the writing teaching mode combined with the mixed teaching mode in college English writing teaching against the background of big data. Focusing on production-oriented approach (POA) theory, this paper proposes a mixed learning writing model for English teaching and applies the POA mixed learning…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Blended Learning, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As part of its ambitious Belt and Road initiative, the Chinese government, cognizant of the fact that establishing strong people-to-people bonds locally, regionally, and internationally will be key to the initiative's success and that languages will play a pivotal role in facilitating this, has called for the diversification of language programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
Yuan Lu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study explored second language (L2) competence in discontinuous discursive formulaic sequences, namely Chinese correlative connectives (CCCs; e.g. yinwei . . . suy 'because . . . so'), in relation to the determinants of formulaic sequence acquisition by scrutinizing L2 Chinese learners' performance on two controlled tasks. Mixed-effects…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ke Hu; Asmaa AlSaqqaf – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing emphasis on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) within China's higher education language programs. However, the shift towards ESP presents a multifaceted challenge, particularly for business English teaching at higher education, where speaking proficiency is crucial yet often falls below…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Bing Zhou – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study investigated the effect of implementing a flipped classroom model, constructed using Bloom's taxonomy, task-based instruction (TBI) and Gagne's nine events, on student learning, perceptions of learning, and student interactions in Chinese College English as Foreign Language (EFL) courses. In this embedded mixed methods study, the sample…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)