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Artem Zadorozhnyy; Ju Seong Lee – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) is associated with willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC). Although affective mediators (e.g. enjoyment and anxiety) have been found to influence the relationship between IDLE and L2 WTC, it is unclear whether cognitive factors influence IDLE's effects on L2 WTC. This study aims to fill…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Informal Education, Self Efficacy
Katherine Rehner; John Ippolito; Ivan Lasan; Gabrielle Forget; Claire Gouveia; Sarah Jones; Yifan Liu – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This study explores adult migrants' formal and informal opportunities for learning their host country's dominant language: specifically, the availability, accessibility, and effects of these opportunities on the migrants' social integration. It prioritizes the migrants' experience by reporting findings obtained from analyses of questionnaire data…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Migrants, Adults, Informal Education
Kevin Wai Ho Yung; Scarlet Poon – European Journal of Education, 2025
Well-being development in young people's formative years is crucial for their transition to adulthood. While research on well-being in formal education contexts is expanding, little attention has been paid to out-of-school educational settings, particularly supplementary tutoring for disadvantaged students. Adopting Sirgy's concept of positive…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Adolescents, Well Being
Brooke R. Schreiber; Mihiri Jansz – ELT Journal, 2025
Despite a growing body of research demonstrating the pluralistic nature of English today, ELT globally still tends to uphold traditional 'native-speaker' norms. A Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) approach to teacher education is one way of breaking down that gap, yet it is not well known how the effects of this approach might hold up over…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Glenn S. Levine, Editor; David Mallows, Editor – Educational Linguistics, 2022
This volume focuses on the learning of host-country languages by migrants in Europe. It identifies, clarifies, and offers insights into issues and central questions related to the learning of host-country languages with an emphasis on adolescent and adult language learners in formal and informal settings. The book draws on data collected following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Ju Seong Lee; Nga Man Yeung; Mary Beth Osburn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build theory, this study investigates how Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE; consisting of "teacher appreciation, personal enjoyment," and "social enjoyment") mediates the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and EFL secondary students' willingness to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Pia Sundqvist; M. Sercan Uztosun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This article comprises two international studies. Study 1 aimed to develop a scale to measure the frequency of learners' voluntary, informal, out-of-school engagement with English, so-called Extramural English (EE) activities. It involved three stages -- pilot study, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis -- followed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Informal Education
Tahereh Taherian; Majid Elahi Shirvan; Elham Yazdanmehr; Mariusz Kruk; Miroslaw Pawlak – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
The present research used a longitudinal framework to test a model of willingness to communicate (L2WTC), informal digital learning of English (IDLE), and foreign language boredom (FLB) in learning English as a foreign language among 325 Iranian university students attending a course in general English for 4 months via a latent change score…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Models
Ilias Vierendeels; Laurence Mettewie – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
This paper studies the circulation of learner emotions during a tertiary chitchatting e-tandem called "Bab(b)elade." In this online collaborative language learning project, students of French and Dutch develop each other's foreign language competence in an informal setting, away from 'classic' academic requirements. Using questionnaire…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes, Anxiety, Learner Engagement
Sercu, Lies – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Intercultural competence is an increasingly desirable life skill in a multicultural and globalized world. To promote this learning outcome, higher education institutions can offer internationalization activities both at home and abroad. Research investigating to what extent 'Internationalization at home' (IaH) initiatives, as opposed to study…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Global Approach, Family Environment, College Students
Irmelin Kjelaas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigates school segregation for newly arrived adolescent students (aged 16-22) in Norway. Based on an interview study in two Norwegian adult education establishments and drawing on a sociocultural framework, the article highlights the students' experiences with and perceptions of school segregation. More specifically, it analyzes…
Descriptors: Immigrants, School Segregation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gilbert Dizon – The EUROCALL Review, 2024
Video streaming is a common social practice in modern society, especially among today's youth. Many people are also using these services as a resource for informal learning. However, few studies have examined the use of video streaming for self-directed foreign language (FL) learning beyond the classroom. The present study addresses this research…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Video Technology, Informal Education, Second Language Learning
Henriette L. Arndt – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This article reports on the development and validation of the Informal Second Language Engagement questionnaire (ISLE) for capturing various aspects of learner engagement with informal second language practices. Whereas other questionnaires have primarily focused on learner behavior (the frequency, quantity, and diversity of informal activities in…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Second Language Learning
Ali Soyoof; Barry Lee Reynolds; Kan Kan Chan; Wen-Ta Tseng; Kate McLay – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Research has shown that massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have the potential to offer language learning opportunities. However, there is a dearth of research exploring student attitudes about the potential of these games for language learning. We used the language learning principles framework proposed by Brown and Lee…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ustaoglu, Alihan; Çelik, Handan – Journal of Educators Online, 2023
Video games, as the most frequent tools of computer technologies, have been integrated into classroom teaching through experimental studies. However, there is still much to investigate if and to what extent video game involvement (VGI) in informal settings can influence students' language learning motivation (LLM) in formal settings. Adopting a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Video Games, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation