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Yazid Basthomi; Francisca Maria Ivone; M. Kharis; Joko Slamet – Online Learning, 2025
This study addresses critical gaps in English proficiency assessments, particularly for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, by focusing on the foundational aspect of needs analysis in designing a platform to assist EFL students in preparation for real English proficiency tests. The existing tests, such as TOEFL and IELTS, often fail to…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wanting Wang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study considered the social emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic. It utilized quantitative methods to investigate the L2 self-images (i.e., ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, and feared L2 self) held by EFL college students in formal online English classes, based on Dörnyei's (2005) L2 Motivational Self System. Meanwhile, this research proved the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, COVID-19
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Han, Shuangmiao – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
The development of English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) at the tertiary level has been accelerated by the ever-increasing degree of higher education internationalisation. The study, based on a survey with 112 students and semi-structured interviews with 16 instructors collected at a Sino-foreign cooperative education institution in China,…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Badwan, Khawla M. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Language educators in many parts of the world are torn between preparing language learners to pass language proficiency tests and trying to let their classrooms reflect the messiness of out-of-class communication. Because testing is "an activity which perhaps more than any other dictates what is taught" (Hall, 2014, p. 379), helping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning