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Download full textEllen J. Serafini; Sara I. Roca-Ramirez – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Previous research has proposed a crucial role for critical experiences in language learning to better understand how learners understand and discursively construct their self-concept (Mercer, 2011, 2016; Serafini, 2020a; Thompson, 2020). However, studies have mainly explored critical experiences in the narratives of foreign language learners of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Cultural Background
Anagnorisis and Narrative Incorporation: How Significant Incidents Affect Language-Learning Behavior
Pigott, Julian – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper examines how fleeting experiences exert a disproportionately powerful effect on the language learning motivation and behavior of university students. A thematic analysis of interview data is used to show how "significant incidents" have two principal consequences. The first, "anagnorisis," is an immediate, revelatory…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, College Students
Oxford, Rebecca L.; Cuéllar, Lourdes – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Using the principles of positive psychology and the tools of narrative research, this article focuses on the psychology of five language learners who crossed cultural and linguistic borders. All five were university students learning Chinese in Mexico, and two of them also studied Chinese in China. The grounded theory approach was used to analyze…
Descriptors: Psychology, Personal Narratives, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Oxford, Rebecca L. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
This article presents two foreign or second language (L2) learner histories representing the extreme ends of the spectrum of learner well-being. One story reflects the very positive learning experiences of a highly strategic learner, while the other story focuses on a less strategic learner's negative, long-lasting responses to a single traumatic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Learning Experience, Well Being
Glówka, Danuta – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
This study examined the impact of gender on students' achievement in learning English as a foreign language in secondary and higher vocational schools in Poland, as well as teachers' and students' opinions concerning the importance of this influence. The collected data provided ample evidence that girls achieved significantly better results than…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Secondary School Students
Lockley, Thomas – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Speaking self-perceived communication competence (SPCC) is a construct with many potential implications for foreign language learning, but one that has been little studied. SPCC itself is a major predictive factor in willingness to communicate, a construct which has been widely conceptualised and researched. This study (N = 103) used a repeated…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Accuracy, Language Proficiency
