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Bérénice Darnault – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner's life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation
Ruzhang Cheng – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
This research examines the impact of online help-seeking strategies--both adaptive and peer-based--on promoting self-regulated and collaborative learning skills, as well as language learning outcomes, among Chinese EFL learners in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environments. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the study triangulates…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning
Megan Nakamura – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the neurocognitive underpinnings of early language learning in adults and examines the modulating effects of individual differences in prior bilingual experience and cognitive capabilities. This study used a pre/post short-term longitudinal design with a 10-day Dutch language training via Rosetta Stone. Event-Related…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Moises Esteban-Guitart; James Gee – Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
This article explores the idea that learning can be best understood as a life project. This entails recognition that socio-experiential (being), cognitive (knowing) and behavioural (doing) dimension are crucial, and that the future is of central importance -- more than the past -- in teaching and learning processes. Based on the concepts of…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Self Concept, Art Education, English (Second Language)
David Singleton; Justyna Lesniewska – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article delves into the ongoing debate surrounding the role of age in second language acquisition, examining developments over the past three decades and highlighting contentious issues. We argue that the commonly held belief in age's pivotal role is frequently contradicted by empirical evidence. Additionally, we examine the agerelated debate…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Brain, Lifelong Learning
Karina Tachihara; Adele E. Goldberg – Language Learning, 2025
Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Sentences, Undergraduate Students
Kellie A. H. Carstensen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study examined how informal Conversations in English (CIE) groups helped migrants gain cultural knowledge about communicating in the United States and how the CIE groups facilitated the process of language socialization. The Ethnography of Communication (EC) and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) were used to understand the connection between…
Descriptors: Socialization, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nuranindia Endah Arum – AILA Review, 2024
Learning the host country's language(s) is a necessary step toward social and professional inclusion for migrants. However, it is often regarded as a challenging task that depends heavily on the sociocultural context in which migrants are situated. This study explores the Norwegian language learning strategies of highly educated Indonesians…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Migrants, Migrant Education
Diana Angélica Parra Pérez; Yuri Natali Sarmiento Salamanca; Jennyfer Paola Camargo Cely; María Catalina Caro-Torres; Aura María Estacio Barrios – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
This study used sequential exploratory, mixed-method research that explored the influence of authentic tasks on adult language learners' interactions in e-forums. The participants belonged to a blended-flipped program of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). E-Forum posting in the course aimed at encouraging beginner learners to exchange…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Blended Learning
Kamisli, Merih Ugural – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore adult immigrant learners' perspectives and motivations for participating in an ESL program through the lens of McClusky's Theory of Margin. Nine adult immigrant ESL students were interviewed about their learning experiences. Creswell's (1994) systematic process informed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
Susana A. Eisenchlas; Kelly Shoecraft – Student Success, 2024
This practice report describes a 12-week stand-alone course designed to address the challenges university students face in foreign language classes. Adopting principles of transformative language learning, course content, activities and resources were designed and implemented to dispel myths and preconceptions regarding language instruction,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Loanne Janin – Classroom Discourse, 2024
Following the current research in conversation analysis in the field of second language (L2) learning, the present study demonstrates that beginner-level adult learners actively contribute to vocabulary explanation sequences by mobilising multimodal resources including depictive gestures, gaze, and short verbal turns. The data consist of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Vocabulary, Second Language Learning, Learning Modalities
Rizgar Qasim Mahmood – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study explores ESL learners' perceptions of using high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) through YouGlish to improve pronunciation skills. Data were collected through an online questionnaire completed by 70 upper-intermediate level ESL learners and semistructured interviews with 20 learners. The collected data were analyzed statistically…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Phonetics
Noprival Noprival – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Although there has been much research on second language learning, minimal literature reports how language learners learn multiple foreign languages through immersion. Further, a majority of these previous studies have been conducted using exclusively quantitative methods. In response to these empirical and methodological gaps, the current study…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Adult Learning
Marwa Abd Al Galil Helmy Abd Al Galil – Online Submission, 2024
The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of utilizing a program based on post-constructivism to develop adult learners' English language fluency. The study started with the literature review and previous studies handling post-constructivism and English language fluency. The researcher nominated a group of pre-intermediate to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods