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Silvie Prevrátilová – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Although motivation is an extensively discussed topic, minor languages deserve more research attention. This qualitative multiple case study explores motivation to learn Czech as a second language in Beginners' Czech language courses for Erasmus students in the Czech Republic through the lens of the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), searching…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Slavic Languages, Introductory Courses
Jae-Eun Jon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Despite the position of the United States as a top destination for international student mobility and the advancement of research on study abroad decisions, little is known about how American college students choose a destination country for study abroad. Expanding the understanding of students' choice of a study abroad destination can contribute…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, College Students
Wendong Li; Yang Gong – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Studying abroad entails international students' identity (trans)formation and social network development, but individuals' decisions and choices while engaging in these processes remain underexplored. Informed by the notion of agency in second language socialization theory, this longitudinal case study examined the interplay of identity and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
Stamenkovska, Tatjana; Llerena, Carlos Lenin Alvarez; János, Gordon Gyori – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2022
In today's globalized, multicultural and multilingual world, diverse social processes and macrocontextual factors are influencing people's motivation to learn a new language. According to OECD, the students' mobility to study abroad has increased more than two times during the past 2 decades, which plays a significant role in the world's future…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Foreign Students, Hungarian, Foreign Countries
Meihua Liu – SAGE Open, 2023
Guided by the complex dynamic systems theory, the present study explored university students' dynamic motivation to learn Chinese as a second language and its interaction with their learning experiences during a semester while studying in China. The study was conducted in a state-owned university in China and collected data at two time points of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Chinese, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation
Qiaona Yu; Nelson C. Brunsting; Jonathan Smart; W. Patrick Bingham – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Study abroad comes with challenges, yet it is not clear how language proficiency may longitudinally predict students' social engagement and well-being. Recent changes in international student demographics, including age decreases and increased international school backgrounds, may also affect students' well-being. This study views language as a…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Experience
Zhang, Bo; Goodman, Lizbeth; Gu, Xiaoqing – SAGE Open, 2022
This study aims to help international students learn the language and cultural knowledge of their future study destination by collaborating with local students through coplaying games in online virtual rooms. Therefore, this study explores whether the 3D interactive game with specific contexts on a virtual platform can support intercultural…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning
Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Cun, Aijuan; Huang, Ting – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2023
There is limited research concerning the use of visual materials for academic learning in Chinese undergraduate international students' experiences of studying in the United States. To help address this gap, drawing upon theoretical perspectives on multimodality and a literature review on using visual resources, this article discusses the ways in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Student Attitudes
Wu Zhangli; Wang Xuewen; Lilliati Ismail; Norhakimah Khaiessa Ahmad; Omer HassanAli Mahfoodh – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined the challenges of English learning encountered by Chinese international students in a Malaysian university, as well as the contributing factors and strategies students employ to cope with these challenges. A total of 60 Chinese international students (51.7% male and 48.3% female) participated in this study, with an average stay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Study Abroad
Tatjana Stamenkovska; Carlos Lenin Alvarez Llerena; János Gordon Gyori – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2025
While extensive research has been conducted on L2 motivation in the Hungarian context, more studies need to be focused on international students beginning to learn Hungarian while studying in Hungary. This article offers an explanatory investigation into the motivational dispositions influencing the learning of Hungarian as a second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Learning Motivation, Hungarian, Second Language Learning
Jingjing Lyu; Yue Huang – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper empirically investigates whether Chinese language learning opportunities abroad have exerted a positive effect on international student mobility (ISM) to China. We utilize both official and self-compiled panel data for 182 countries, spanning a period of 15 years. We use the establishment of Confucius Institutes as an indicator of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Mobility
Muhammad Awais Bhatti; Ariff Syah Juhari – Journal of International Students, 2023
The increasing trend of studying abroad, driven by globalization, has led students to seek educational and professional opportunities in foreign countries. However, they face numerous challenges that affect their academic and social integration. This study aims to examine the factors influencing communication among Arab students studying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning
Hsieh, Jasper Kun-Ting; Gao, Xuesong; Bell, Shaun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
This paper draws on an ethnographic research that examined Taiwanese international students' identity movements before, during, and after their overseas education in Australia. Previous studies on nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) studying TESOL in the West focused on the formation of their professional identity before and after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, English (Second Language)
Okim Kang; Katherine Yaw – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
If extraneous information leads listeners to biased judgements, then their speech perceptions are likely to manifest distortion in that direction. This phenomenon is known as reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS), which has been confirmed by 25 years of empirical study. Recent research on effects of listener background on ratings of speaker…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Stereotypes, Social Bias, Pronunciation