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Noprival; Nizamuddin Sadiq; Nur Lailatur Rofiah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study reports on the linguistic and sociocultural affordances available to multilinguals through their engagement in a social learning space at a Community of Practices (CoPs). Despite the existence of studies on CoP in language learning contexts, however, little work has been conducted on the affordances of a multilingual learning community,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Media
Priyanka Bose; Xuesong Gao; Sue Starfield; Nirukshi Perera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Indo European Languages, Linguistic Theory
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Pileh Roud, Leila Fekri; Hidri, Sahbi – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The current study addressed the impact of computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) on the TOEFL "i"BT listening comprehension test administered to Iranian EFL learners (n = 185) who took part in preparation courses on the TOEFL exam in some language centres in Iran. To mediate the test-takers with hints to process the listening questions,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Karim Shabani; Iman Bakhoda – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The introduction of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory (SCT) into the second language (L2) domain provides a potential site to explore the mechanisms underlying L2 learners' cognitive modification and the transformation of social understanding into the personal one. This study provided a picture of L2 personalization in two groups of advanced and…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xu, Jinfen; Zhang, Shanshan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems have been increasingly incorporated in L2 writing instruction. However, how the instructional use of AWE influences learners' writing has remained inconclusive partly due to variations in heterogeneous learners. Underpinned by a sociocultural theory, this classroom-based study was to understand how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Evaluation
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Galip Kartal – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The overarching goal of this design-based research was to explore WhatsApp's potential for facilitating and supporting speaking and pronunciation instruction in an EFL large-class speaking course. More specifically, this paper explored the perceived learning outcomes of WhatsApp-supported pedagogy in large English-speaking classes. Ninety-nine…
Descriptors: Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Mehri Kamrood, Ali; Davoudi, Mohammad; Ghaniabadi, Saeed; Amirian, Seyyed Mohammad Reza – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Dynamic Assessment (DA) is proposed as a workable diagnostic tool in second or foreign language context. Compared to traditional non-dynamic testing, DA presents a more comprehensive account of human beings' abilities through addressing both the fully internalized abilities and the abilities that are in the process of being internalized. However,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bryan Buschner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School and university classrooms remain the standard around the world for second language instruction. However, over the past 20 years various methods of language learning have permeated the educational landscape to include self-study textbooks, language learning software and online teachers. Some models are evidence based while others lack…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The main purpose of the present study is to propose a framework for implementing group dynamic assessment (DA) using students' smartphones for improving and assessing EFL learners' ability to produce well-formed and appropriate requests. This study focuses on five learner reciprocity moves during DA interactions to get deeper insights into the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bakhoda, Iman; Shabani, Karim – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Following a suggestion by Poehner [2008. Dynamic Assessment: A Vygotskian Approach to Understanding and Promoting Second Language Development. Berlin: Springer] about the possible merger between group dynamic assessment (GDA) rooted in Vygotskian sociocultural theory (SCT) and computer testing, this study has decided to test the feasibility of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Sociocultural Patterns
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Budairi, Ahmad – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2022
The purpose of this research is to investigate the practice of intertextuality of Farah (pseudonym) a 20-year-old female university student who engaged in a variety of culturally shaped digital literacy practices. In particular, it seeks to elucidate how Farah's practice of intertextuality serves as a semiotic mediation for her exercise and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Semiotics, Digital Literacy, English (Second Language)
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Lin, Vivien; Barrett, Neil E.; Liu, Gi-Zen; Chen, Nian-Shing; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The field of language education has experienced a rise in using virtual reality (VR) to support interactive, contextualized, and collaborative language learning in recent years. The current study investigates the effects of auditory, visual, and textual input on speaking and writing in English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) through immersive,…
Descriptors: Tourism, English for Special Purposes, Undergraduate Students, Computer Simulation
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Andujar, Alberto – ReCALL, 2020
The present investigation analyses the potential of a pedagogical dynamic assessment (DA) approach to foster second language (L2) development through the use of a mobile instant messaging application. Students' zone of actual and proximal development is observed through the use of a grammar and vocabulary level test and the use of the WhatsApp…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Xian, Liuyan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
From the perspective of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), dynamic assessment (DA) highlights the role of mediation in the learning process by unveiling the distance between actual learning proficiency and potential learning development. DA is more helpful in fostering students' ability to solve problems…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Outcomes of Education
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Garnes-Tarazona, Inmaculada – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Second language teaching and learning has experienced a change towards the use of mobile technologies inside and outside the classroom. The goal of this article is twofold: to compare and evaluate three different commercial English language learning apps (Duolingo, Babbel, and Busuu) that cover the four skills (speaking, writing, listening, and…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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