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Nguyen, Son Van; Habók, Anita – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This study provides evidence of the validity and reliability of a self-efficacy questionnaire in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a Vietnamese sample of university students. A total of 656 non-English-major students completed the questionnaire in an online format. SPSS version 24, SPSS AMOS, and SmartPLS 3 were employed to analyze the data.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Questionnaires, Second Language Learning
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Subekti, Adaninggar Septi – Dinamika Ilmu, 2018
This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and spoken performances of non-English major university students in Indonesia. The study found that learners experienced various degrees of FLA with the mean score 93.07 (SD = 17.69, N = 119). This study also found a statistically significant, negative…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety
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Mokhtarnia, Shabnam; Ghafar-Samar, Reza – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This study aimed at exploring the possible differences between Iranian English and non-English major students in terms of their attitude towards native English speakers and reported self-identity change. It also attempted to investigate the possible significant relationships between these two variables. The results of the independent-sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Xie, Qing – Cogent Education, 2017
This article reports an investigative study on the target language use in and outside business English classrooms for non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese university context. The aims of the study are to identify the actual situation of target language use in business English teaching and to suggest ways for improvements. The study uses…
Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Peng, Hui – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study, carried out at a major technological university in China and based on a convenience sample of 116 students, is designed to identify which aspects of their classroom environments had the greatest effect on the students. Students completed a 26-item questionnaire which elicited general as well as specific views on the EFL classroom…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Qiang – ORTESOL Journal, 2016
The present study aims to probe into learners' perceptions of blended learning in relation to the respective roles of face-to-face learning (f2f learning) and online learning as well as their interaction in the blended EFL contexts. Questionnaires were used in the study to examine the attitudes of 296 university students towards a blended English…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Li, Ying; Zhang, Gouzhi – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated L2 leaners' preferences between native-speaking teachers (NST) and non-native-speaking teachers (NNST) as their English pronunciation teacher, and examined the participants' accentedness and comprehensibility in L2-English pronunciation after being taught by a NST and a NNST. The participants were 30 undergraduates who were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonmajors
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Gopang, Illahi Bux; Bughio, Faraz Ali; Pathan, Habibullah – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
The present study investigated foreign language anxiety among students of Lasbela University, Baluchistan, Pakistan. The study adopted the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz et al., 1986). The respondents were (N = 240) including 26 female and 214 male. The data was run through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
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Amirian, Seyed Mohammad Reza; Tavakoli, Elaheh – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Despite the significant role of oral presentation in the academic context, many university students evade opportunities for participation due to low self-efficacy. The present study has been conducted to compare oral presentation self-efficacy of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with undergraduates and postgraduates of Non-EFL majors,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lai, Shu-Li; Chen, Hao-Jan Howard – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
A number of studies have suggested the possible benefits of using concordancers in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing. To date, however, there is still limited understanding of how EFL writers may make use of such tools along with dictionaries when engaging in a writing task. To better understand the question, this study investigated a…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Indexes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wang, Chao; Yan, Jiaolan; Liu, Bao – English Language Teaching, 2014
Based on Bailey's washback model, in respect of participants, process and products, the present empirical study was conducted to find the actual washback effects of the internet-based College English Test Band 4 (IB CET-4). The methods adopted are questionnaires, class observation, interview and the analysis of both the CET-4 teaching and testing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Trang, Tran Thi Thu; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Moni, Karen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in tertiary students learning foreign languages in many countries; however, limited research has explored how it develops. This study investigated how anxiety developed in students of English as a foreign language (EFL), focusing on changes in their feelings about EFL learning as they learned,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), Second Language Instruction
Sun, Ming-Lei – Online Submission, 2011
Two proposed style assessment instruments are employed to explore the learning styles of non-English major college students in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context in Chinese universities. It was found that their overall learning preferences in English language learning demonstrate a tendency, so that discovering the students' learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Preferences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – ReCALL, 2011
This study reports on the integration of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) multimedia courseware for oral presentations into a self-learning and elective program for non-English major students in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. A computer-aided instruction approach, combined with a task-based learning approach, was adopted.…
Descriptors: Elective Courses, International Trade, Courseware, Questionnaires
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Xu, Jianping – English Language Teaching, 2009
This thesis reports a survey study of the autonomous L2 learning by 100 first-year non-English-major Chinese post-graduates via the instruments of a questionnaire and semi-structured interview after the questionnaire. It attends to address the following research question: To what extent do Chinese postgraduate students conduct autonomous L2…
Descriptors: Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Graduate Students