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Jamie Atkins; Marion Heron – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Foreign language learning is highly interactive and requires opportunities for academic speaking. The focus of this paper is how foreign language undergraduate students experienced this process in an online learning context. Through semi-structured interviews with seven undergraduate French, German and Spanish students, participants highlighted…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses
Nurhamizah Ishak – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
Out-of-class learning is an additional vital component in successful English language acquisition among proficient ESL users. Thus, this study employed a quantitative research approach to investigate out-of-class English language practice by Malaysian ESL post-secondary students. 106 first-semester Diploma in Tourism Management students at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lystiana Nurhayat Hakim; Utami Widiati; Sundari Purwaningsih; Anik Nunuk Wulyani; Wida Mulyanti – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Act TEFL Methodology is one of the main courses designed to provide English pre-service teachers with several newest methodologies in teaching English at different levels and learning contexts. However, to achieve good quality of them, the English education department needs to evaluate, arrange and formulate the course. In the process of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ninuk Indrayani; Bambang Yudi Cahyono; Nur Mukminatien; Francisca Maria Ivone – rEFLections, 2024
Self-Directed Informal Digital Learning of English (SD-IDLE) plays a crucial role in informal language learning. This study aims to examine the SD-IDLE nature of English learning among Indonesian university students and its impact on language learning and personal development. The research used a sequential explanatory mixed methods design,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lani Marie Baldwin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose and Method of Study: Using a phenomenological approach, this study explored in-depth the lived experience of United States Military Academy (USMA) cadets participating in a semester abroad program (SAP) to increase knowledge of how such experiences impacted their intercultural effectiveness development. This study added to the knowledge…
Descriptors: Military Schools, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency
Mahon, Kathleen; Dentler, Sigrid; Seipel, Sina – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
The complexity and challenges of higher education (HE) in recent times have been widely discussed in HE literature, as have concomitant demands on university teachers and their professional learning needs. Much attention has been paid to new academics in these conversations, but less so to international PhD and post-doctoral researchers, who are…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Career Development, Self Esteem, Hermeneutics
Rothe, Lucian – NECTFL Review, 2023
Teacher-scholars have called upon fellow language educators to redevelop curricula at all proficiency levels to portray the lived experiences of target language (TL) speakers. This article presents a semester-long project that contributes to developing diverse teaching materials for college-level learners at the novice level. Via an ePortfolio…
Descriptors: Diversity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Ibrahim Halil Topal – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Vocabulary and grammar are crucial to language proficiency. Certain word families and grammatical categories are differentiated by prosodic features like suprafixes. In English, specific noun/adjective-verb pairs, often called disyllabic words, have primary stress on different syllables: nouns usually receive trochaic stress, while verbs receive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Knowledge Level
Nataliia Todorova – Advanced Education, 2023
The article focused on exploring the effect of the use of Quizlet on Ukrainian service members' English vocabulary acquisition and their perceptions of its utilisation in the educational process. A mixed-method research design combining quantitative and qualitative approaches was employed in this experimental study, which consisted of 3 stages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Suzanne Graham; Pengchong Anthony Zhang – AILA Review, 2024
This study explored the strategy use of 12 high-school learners of English within a vocabulary teaching intervention which exposed three groups of learners to one of three types of oral vocabulary explanations: L2 explanations; codeswitched explanations (CS); and contrastive focus-on-form explanations (CFoF) giving cross-linguistic information.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Safoura Jahedizadeh; Abbas Khademorreza; Somayeh Sadat Sarvari – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Although language skills have gained unparalleled momentum in language education, there is a paucity of research on one of the most significant subskills: vocabulary. Due to the underestimation of an efficient method to learn foreign language vocabularies, scant research attention has been dedicated to exploring the best vocabulary learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
Shotaro Ueno; Osamu Takeuchi – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2023
A growing body of vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) studies focuses on accumulating empirical evidence on the relationship between frequency of VLS use and vocabulary acquisition by using the frequency-based measures of VLSs. Our study by contrast, examined which VLSs are perceived as important and useful, and how they are employed by Japanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development
Jensen, Birgit A.; Altstaedter, Laura Levi – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
This quantitative and qualitative study explored students' perceptions of a flipped German course and its measurable impact on their critical-thinking skills. The instructional design of the course shifted grammar and vocabulary instruction outside of class so that students in the newly created collaborative in-class space could engage in more…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Critical Thinking
Grant D. Moss, Editor; Leah McKeeman, Editor – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2025
The 2025 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages was held in Kansas City, Missouri on March 13-15. This year's theme, "Global Goals, Global Languages," highlighted the partnership of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) and language curricula. The Global Goals were created to address…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Teaching Methods
Chung, Edsoulla; Fung, Daniel – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Given the significant role vocabulary plays in second language acquisition, how to help learners acquire vocabulary has always been a concern for educators. Despite the general consensus that beliefs influence learners' behaviour, limited research effort has been devoted to the exploration of English as a second language (ESL) learners' beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction