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Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi; Mohd Nazim; Jalal Ahmad – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
Speaking skills, being an essential part of effective communication, are significant for English as a foreign language (EFL) student in today's globalized world, and collaborative learning, being heterogeneous, assists them with more possibilities for enhancing and practicing the skills through a supportive environment, constructive feedback, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Student Attitudes
Okyar, Hatice – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
This research study aimed to explore the speaking anxiety of Turkish learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) and its relation to EFL speaking self-efficacy, fear of negative evaluation (FNE), self-perceived English speaking proficiency, and gender. 293 (132 females, 161 males) university-level EFL students completed the EFL speaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Fear
Feras Mahmoud Alslait; Mamon Saleem Alzboun; Lamia Muhammad Salim Omoush; Alaa A. Harahsheh; Rima Mahmoud Awad Al- Essa; Amer Lahad Salem Al-Masaeid; Malik Salim Odeh Alzboon – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
The study aims to investigate the impact of implementing the Numbered Heads Strategy on developing oral expression skills among Arabic learners who speak languages, as well as their attitudes towards this teaching method. The research involved 50 participants, both male and female, at the fourth level of a language center within Al al-Bayt…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rawia Hayik – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study is situated within a male-dominated Palestinian-Israeli reality rife with issues of gender privilege. With a purpose to disrupt the status quo in my language classroom and positively affect students' beliefs towards gender injustices, I, as a teacher researcher, designed a unit on gender issues including a book set that would challenge…
Descriptors: Arabs, Sex Role, Reader Response, Oral Language
Etienne, Corinne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article explores French L1 speakers' attitudes toward French L2 speakers' negation use. Negation in prescriptive grammars calls for a pre-verbal ne and a post-verbal element like "pas." Although orally "ne" deletion is frequent, it is rarely or never taught. One common, albeit meagerly supported, explanation is that L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Due to the outbreak of COVID 19, an online bilingual curriculum was conducted via "Google Meet." The learning material was developed and implemented by using a smartphone application, STEMUP, based on augmented reality (AR) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies. This study investigated the oral performance and perceptions…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
Sasi, Abolfazl Shirban; Haga, Toshinari; Chen, Heng Yu – World Journal of Education, 2020
The present study investigated the feasibility of applying the Silent Way in teaching Japanese to Taiwanese university students. A total of 168 (96 female and 72 male) students in a university in central Taiwan were the subjects of this study. They were studying Japanese as a general course, and were grouped in five classes ranging from freshmen…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
Geçkin, Vasfiye – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2020
This paper explores the extent gender differences affect foreign language anxiety and student beliefs about spoken corrective feedback. A random sample of 100 Turkish students (50 males, 50 females) who were preintermediate level learners of English as a foreign language at a state preparatory school in Turkey completed two questionnaires which…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Anxiety
Kodama-Dodge, Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to determine whether English learners who participated in transitional kindergarten perform equally or better than English learners who did not participate in transitional kindergarten in the areas of oral language, written language, and overall language as measured by the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Travis Evans-Sago – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explores Spanish copular verbs, "ser" and "estar" (both 'to be' in English), in pre-adjectival contexts within two Spanish varieties: first-language (L1) Chilean speakers from Santiago (N = 29) and second-language (L2) English-speaking learners studying in Chile (N = 31). Bridging sociolinguistics and second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation, Study Abroad
Kirbas, Abdulkadir; Bulut, Mesut – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
This study aims to examine the postgraduate theses in the field of verbal communication skills, which have an important place in the individual's cognitively healthy, effective, and positive communication. In line with this purpose of the research, 24 full-text postgraduate theses in the National Thesis Database of the Council of Higher Education…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Oral Language, Databases, Masters Theses
Yakisik, Burçak Yilmaz – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
Oral corrective feedback has attracted the attention of EFL teachers and researchers in recent decades. The current study aims to investigate EFL learners' preferences and emotions about oral corrective feedback with a specific focus on gender and grade level at secondary education in Turkey. Quantitative research methods were used to reveal the…
Descriptors: Preferences, Oral Language, Error Correction, Second Language Learning
Ostovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Nakhaee, Shiva; Abbasi-Sosfadi, Saeed – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
This study aims at investigating the relationship between student's second language lexical fluency and their C-test performance. Using cluster sampling procedure,75 undergraduate students of Engineering and Basic Sciences studying general English at Shahrood University of Technology were randomly selected to participate in this study. Controlled…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Undergraduate Students
Espi-Sanchis, Gabriel; Cockcroft, Kate – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study investigated the relationship between balanced multilingualism and working memory. Specifically, it reports on the relationship between balanced proficiency in speaking, reading and comprehension (across three languages), and verbal and visuospatial working memory in young South African adults. Information about participants' language…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency
Lahmann, Cornelia; Steinkrauss, Rasmus; Schmid, Monika S. – Language Learning, 2016
There remains considerable disagreement about which factors drive second language (L2) ultimate attainment. Age of onset (AO) appears to be a robust factor, lending support to theories of maturational constraints on L2 acquisition. The present study is an investigation of factors that influence grammatical and lexical complexity at the stage of L2…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Research