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Improving Pre-Service English Teachers' Native Cultural Knowledge and English Language Knowledge of Native Culture in a PBL Classroom
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Danyang Zhang; Junjie Gavin Wu; Zhuxia Fu – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
Purpose: Globalization underscores the importance of developing language learners' intercultural communication competence (ICC). English language teacher education nowadays thus necessitates pedagogy training on not only linguistic, but also intercultural dimensions. However, the development of PSETs' home-country cultural knowledge (HCK) and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Indigenous Knowledge, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Individual Trajectories of Boredom in Learning English as a Foreign Language at the University Level: Insights from Three Students' Self-Reported Experience
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Pawlak, Miroslaw; Zawodniak, Joanna; Kruk, Mariusz – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Boredom is one of the most pervasive and unpleasant emotions in school settings, yet it still remains a neglected and underappreciated research area (Daschmann, Goetz, and Stupnisky, 2011. "Testing the predictors of boredom at school: Development and validation of the precursors to boredom scales." "British Journal of Educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Promoting Learner Autonomy and Improving Reflective Thinking Skills through Reflective Practice and Collaborative Learning
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Sener, Burcu; Mede, Enisa – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
In this study, the role of reflective practice and collaborative learning practice in promoting learner autonomy (LA) and improving reflective thinking skills (RT) and related learner perceptions were explored. A mixed-method design was preferred to investigate the issue, with participants enrolled in an Academic English Skills (EAP) course (N =…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Reflection, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
Applying Augmented Reality in a University English Class: Learners' Perceptions of Creativity and Learning Motivation
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Lin, Yu-Ju; Wang, Hung-chun – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study was conducted to explore the effects of an augmented-reality (AR) creative project on English L2 learners' perceptions of creativity, as well as to investigate how to stimulate students' learning motivation. The AR project was developed and integrated into the course syllabus of a university English class, and 39 Taiwanese freshmen…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Emotions in Second Language Poetry Writing: A Poetic Inquiry into Japanese EFL Students' Language Learning Experiences
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Iida, Atsushi; Chamcharatsri, Bee – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: This poetic inquiry investigates second language (L2) learners' experiences of English language learning and examines the role of emotions in the language learning process. Design/methodology: The methodology chosen in the current study is qualitative, case-study research through which 209 English poems written by twenty-one Japanese EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Young Children's Perceptions of Emergency Online English Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Kazakhstan
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Hajar, Anas; Manan, Syed Abdul – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This qualitative study explores the English learning experiences of 30 Grade 5 students from three mainstream schools in Kazakhstan during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was informed by Benson et al.'s (2011) four-dimensional model of language learning beyond the classroom: (a) location (physical vs. virtual), (b) formality (formal vs. informal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Online Courses
The Feeling Classroom: Diversity of Feelings in Instructed L2 Learning
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Sampson, Richard J. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
In the field of second language (L2) research, there is a growing recognition of the vital need to explore the diversity of emotional experiences of learning. The current paper describes part of action research with two classes of Japanese first-grade university students (n = 47) in compulsory English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, College Freshmen, English (Second Language)