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Wenzheng Huang – Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 2024
As learning is more real and permanent when connected to learners' private lives beyond the classroom (Godwin-Jones, 2011), mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has emerged as a good way to support language learning, especially in informal contexts. With thousands of language learning applications (apps) becoming available, more and more…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Computer Oriented Programs, Student Characteristics, Informal Education
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Akuneme, Chioma Christiana; Nwosu, Kingsley Chinaza – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2023
Introduction: Communication apprehension is significant in understanding the language skills acquisition of foreign language students. However, studies on communication apprehension have been devoted mainly to second language learners of the English Language. Consequently, there is, in the body of literature, insufficient evidence to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety
Harvey Allen Duncan II – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The desire of higher-ed leadership to internationalize programs to attract foreign students may not align with the perspectives of educators in the classroom. In the elementary and secondary school settings, a teacher's perspective can impact culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) student achievement. However, the current literature does not…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, College Faculty, Likert Scales
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Stefania Spina; Irene Fioravanti; Luciana Forti; Fabio Zanda – Second Language Research, 2024
This article introduces the CELI corpus, a new learner corpus of written Italian consisting of ca. 600,000 tokens, evenly distributed among CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) proficiency levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. The collected texts derive from the language certification exams administered by the University for Foreigners…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Best Practices
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Haisley, Phillip K.; Grandorff, Catherine; Agbonlahor, Osasohan; Mendez, Sylvia L.; Hansen, Mandy – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2021
Globally, collegiate students possess distinct drives, opportunities, and constraints that influence their choices regarding if, when, and where to study abroad. This research explored the study abroad motivations of US students who were studying in other countries as well as international students who were studying in the US. Data was collected…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Motivation
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Mireia Trenchs-Parera; Andreana Pastena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This mixed-methods study explores whether undergraduates in a multilingual, multicultural university -- and more specifically in a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom -- manifest transcultural competence when starting university studies. The article precisely focuses on the role of intercultural friendships and personal and family…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, College Freshmen, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Shihai Zhang; Hanfu Mi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Chinese has a rich and diverse vocabulary of terms, especially verbs, expressing power relationships. This paper selected 25 power relationship terms from the Chinese Proficiency Scale for International Chinese Education, and used a true-false format to test the differences in acquisition between international students from Confucian cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Power Structure, Chinese, Language Proficiency
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Aktas, Elif – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Different methods, techniques and strategies are employed in teaching to improve reading, especially comprehension skills to ensure reading motivation. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of readers theater on reading comprehension skills and reading motivation in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. In the study, in which an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement, Reading Motivation
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Michael Rabbidge; Mithun Banerjee – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This study investigates the experiences of an international graduate student at a South Korean university via positional identity theory. It reveals the positional identities that evolved out of the student's experiences studying the Korean language prior to starting her graduate degree, and during her time as a graduate student. Applying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Self Concept
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Anna Filipi – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
This study contributes to research on the doctoral experience of international students who are parents, and for whom the temporary experience of living elsewhere is both a challenge and a resource for all members of the family. The study investigated how a group of these students positioned themselves to their children's English and home language…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Stress Variables, Doctoral Programs
Shahinaz Obaid Alkhaldi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this correlational study was to investigate the relationship between academic performance self-reported GPA, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety FLCA, and The International English Language Testing System IELTS scores among Saudi international students attending college in the United States, and to discover how this relationship…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Ryo Maie; Wei Yi – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
This brief report presents the results of a re-analysis of data by Yi, Man, and Maie (2023), who investigated L1 and L2 intuitive knowledge of phrasal frequency and collocation strength in multiword sequences. We utilized an individual-differences approach and examined which participant variables (age of onset, length of residence, language use,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Word Frequency
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Eshani N. Lee; MaryKay Orgill – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Multilingual learners face significant challenges when navigating the linguistic complexities of chemistry assessments. This study, employing the Equitable Framework for Classroom Assessment, identified these specific challenging features in general chemistry assessment items on the topics of limiting reactant and percent yield. Through in-depth,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Syntax
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Kiyu Itoi; Ryo Mizukura – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
With the internationalisation of higher education, many universities in non-English-speaking countries have started offering English-medium instruction (EMI) courses. In Asia, in addition to the challenges caused by instructors and local students not being L1 speakers of English, the recent study-abroad trend has added more complexity to…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Anas Hajar; Ali Ait Si Mhamed – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper explores eight Kazakhstani postgraduate students' reflections of their international educational experiences in the UK after their immediate re-entry into Kazakhstan. Special focus was on their language identity development after their one-year stay in the UK. It was informed by Benson et al.'s ([2013]. "Second Language Identity in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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