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Jennifer Robinson Dwyer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines the effectiveness of study abroad and pragmatic instruction on L2 learners' acquisition of the speech acts of requesting, thanking, and refusing. In the study, speech acts produced by L2 learners of Spanish who studied abroad for six weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina and L2 learners who received eight weeks of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
Linnea Waade Biermann; Anne Sofie Borsch; Nina Langer Primdahl; Signe Smith Jervelund; An Verelst; Ilse Derluyn; Morten Skovdal – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Learning a new language is a challenge facing most young immigrants and refugees arriving in a new resettlement country. Yet, learning the resettlement country language is critical for the young immigrants and refugees' life chances, in terms of future education, social integration, and participation in the labour market. While literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Adolescents, Immigrants
Li-Mei Chen; Chunlei Liu – TESOL Journal, 2025
The conventional perspective of learner autonomy aims to cultivate second and foreign language (L2) learners with self-regulated learning strategies they can use to achieve native-like communicative competence. While the perspective can equip L2 learners with certain linguistic coding and decoding skills to take charge of their own learning, it…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Hayakawa, Sayuri; Bartolotti, James; Marian, Viorica – Applied Linguistics, 2021
According to the US Department of State, a native English speaker can learn Spanish in about 600 h, but would take four times as long to learn Japanese. While it may be intuitive that similarity between a foreign language and a native tongue can influence the ease of acquisition, what is less obvious are the specific cognitive and emotional…
Descriptors: Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Bridey Lea; Myfany Turpin; Joel Liddle Perrurle – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
Purpose: In recent years, digital projects have created tools for learning languages, such as mobile applications (apps). In contexts where the language has low prestige, innovative digital learning tools can support language revitalisation. This article takes the Australian Kaytetye Indigemoji app as a case study in community resource…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Computer Software
Lin, Xi – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2019
The number of adult learners is growing rapidly in the US institutions, and these learners have become an important student population in colleges. Therefore, it is important to understand their learning strategies in order to better assist them to achieve academic goals. Meanwhile, US institutions have dramatically increased the number of…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Strategies, Adults, Graduate Students
Xuan, Di; Ismail, Wail Muin; Zailani, Muhammad Azhar – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
This paper aims to clarify the concepts related to the use of social media usage and motivation and their effect on the learning of a new language. They have also investigated the relationship between these variables and determined the influence of motivation and SMU on the academic performance of the students. For this purpose, quantitative…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Xiaoyu Pei – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language learning strategy (LLS) has been long considered as one of the most important variables impacting language performance. Learning context, as a major effect on LLS choices, has not been paid much attention compared to other individual variables in LLS research. For the purpose of highlighting contextual influence in LLS research, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Strategies
Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Language Awareness, 2023
In two-way interactive listening, listeners are expected to use interactional skills or strategies to understand meaning, recognize interlocutors' intentions, make responses, and establish common ground. However, strategy use can be affected by learner differences and affective factors. The present study investigated the effects of group…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Liao, Yifan; Liang, Jia – Journal of Research in Education, 2021
While foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been explored by researchers, little is known about such anxiety in the context of graduate education beyond courses or programs specifically for language acquisition. The current study addressed this gap by exploring FLA experienced by Chinese graduate students for whom English is a second language. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Asians
Solon, Megan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study explores the second language (L2) acquisition of a segment that exists in learners' first language (L1) and in their L2 but that differs in its phonetic realization and allophonic patterning in the two languages. Specifically, this research tracks development in one aspect of the production of the alveolar lateral /l/ in the L2 Spanish…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Spanish, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Ercin, Nalan; Altay, Mehmet – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
The axis of task research has shifted from task design to task planning, and rehearsal as a pre-task planning has been less touched upon throughout the history of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA); therefore, the current research was set around task rehearsal after Present-Practise-Product (PPP) model instruction in the task-supported language…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Xie, Qing – SAGE Open, 2021
In light of pedagogical innovation, this study reports a two-stage survey with 172 participants from English-major and non-English-major programs on their needs of production-oriented approach and perceptions of effective implementation strategies in business English courses at a Chinese university. The results of the study suggest that while the…
Descriptors: Business English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kermad, Alyssa – TESL-EJ, 2021
Prosody communicates pragmatic meaning far beyond that which is evident at the surface level of an utterance and can pose challenges to learners' pragmatic comprehension. The current study investigated how second language (L2) English learners made decisions about speaker intent when communicated through prosody. Seventeen English L2 learners took…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Morkus, Nader – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study investigated the relationship between language proficiency and negative pragmatic transfer from a first language (L1), focusing on the speech act of refusal as realised by American learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) in Egyptian Arabic. Twenty American AFL learners (10 intermediate and 10 advanced) and 2 baseline groups (10…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction