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Direct linkDykstra, Shelley; Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Claudia; Marcos Miguel, Nausica; Alins Breda, Diego – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
While the literature on second language reading agrees that exposing students to graded readers (GRs) is beneficial, little is known about how students perceive them. This study explores students' anxiety and overall experiences in a reading program (RP) using GRs in a large first-year Spanish language program. Data are based on 312 students' pre…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Spanish, College Second Language Programs
Download full textZhang, Lequn – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
In order to speed up international cooperation and exchange, the government is encouraging higher education institutions to provide more foreign language courses in addition to English in light of China's progress in reform and opening up. This study used interview and questionnaire surveys to analyze the current state of German language education…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, German, Second Language Learning, Student Experience
Mathias Guerreiro-Aires; Paula Garrett-Rucks – Dimensions, 2025
Higher education has undergone important shifts over the past two decades, with U.S. universities placing more emphasis on career readiness and internships becoming an integral part of academia (National Association of Colleges and Employers [NACE], 2021). Moreover, the student population in U.S. universities has become more diverse (National…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Disadvantaged
Stott, Carolyn; Fielding, Ruth – Babel, 2014
There is sometimes an assumption among language educators that students find the transition from school to university language learning a challenging process (see for example Busse & Walter, 2011; Chambers, 2014; Macaro & Wingate, 2004). In this research we set out to explore this assumption through a small-scale study of first-year…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Readiness, College Preparation, Transitional Programs
Herrera Díaz, Luz Edith – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
With the aim of fostering autonomy in learning, both innovations, the self-access centre and the mode of learning derived from it, were adopted in the context of the study (Language Centre in the University of Veracruz, Mexico). Based on a case study, I have adopted a qualitative perspective to do this research, which aimed to know how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Personal Autonomy
Radnofsky, Mary L.; Spielmann, Guy – 1995
A study of second language learning processes had three goals: to establish a grounded theory on the role of tension, both euphoric and dysphoric, in the formal language learning process; to provide a comprehensive ethnography of the 7-week intensive beginners' class in the French School of Middlebury College (Vermont); and to demonstrate how a…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Second Language Programs, College Students, Coping
