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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
Fang-Ying Yang – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study proposed and implemented a blended self-directed learning program for English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) college students beyond the classroom. Adopting a case study-mixed methods design, the study aimed to investigate (1) learners' engagement in the program, (2) the effects of the program, and (3) learners' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Metacognition, Diaries
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
Eom, Mijin; Papi, Mostafa – English Teaching, 2022
Many empirical findings of previous studies have suggested a connection between motivational factors and L2 writing. Nonetheless, the impact of motivational factors on the genre-based L2 writing has not gained much attention. The present study explored the extent to which the characteristics of two writing tasks involving different genres interact…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Correlation
Almusharraf, Norah; Bailey, Daniel R. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Mapping multivariate influence of learner characteristics on behavior highlights models in learning. To this end, we explored the relationships between strategies and learning characteristics and used regression analysis to understand how learner characteristics predict learning strategy choices. A cross-sectional research design with 175 students…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Case Studies
Pratiwi, Damar Isti; Ubaedillah, U.; Puspitasari, Armyta; Arifianto, Teguh – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Since the teaching-learning process must go online, it is assumed that conducting a flipped classroom could promote students' active learning. Thus, this classroom-based research attempts to investigate the implementation of the flipped model in an online speaking class. It examines students' learning outcomes on speaking skills after studying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Jalil Fathi; Masoud Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Adopting a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach, this study explored the impact of electronic writing portfolio on writing performance in English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Two intact classes were first selected and randomly assigned to an electronic writing portfolio group (22 EFL students) and a conventional (i.e. paper-based)…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Portfolios (Background Materials), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Roger William Anderson – Journal of International Students, 2024
Educators of International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) have been overlooked, erroneously. As teacher educators, their work is exponentially important to North American universities. A multiple case study examined three ITA Educators' ideologies, involving data from two interviews -one being a stimulated recall using classroom observations…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Xue Geng; Yaru Meng – SAGE Open, 2025
Dynamic assessment (DA), based on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, integrates instruction and assessment into a single activity through interactive dialog between the mediator and learner to promote development. This research utilized the interactionist DA to assess and enhance five types of listening inferential abilities of Chinese EFL learners.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Khaled Barkaoui – Language Testing, 2025
English-medium universities often accept scores from various English language proficiency (ELP) tests as evidence of ELP from non-English background students. This practice raises the question of how these tests compare in terms of their ability to predict academic achievement. This longitudinal study addresses this question by examining the…
Descriptors: English Learners, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Boroumand, Mohsen; Mardani, Mahdi; Khakzad Esfahlan, Farzaneh – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
One of the most important communicative skills is listening and, at the same time, the Achilles' heel of many L2 learners as it entails multi-level cognitive processes (Lynch, 2002). Besides, as various studies show, self-efficacy measures are closely tied to the effective use of learning strategies. Considering the key role that concept mapping,…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Concept Mapping, Listening Skills
Khaled Barkaoui – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
This replication study sought to compare the academic achievement of undergraduate students with different score profiles on the TOEFL iBT. Two-step cluster analysis of TOEFL iBT section scores identified six clusters among 2,347 undergraduate students who met the required cutscore on the TOEFL iBT for admission to a Canadian English-medium…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Kurt, Gökçe; Tomak, Burak – Research in Pedagogy, 2022
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, online education has been embraced as an instructional delivery mode to ensure continuity in all levels of education including higher education. Given the fact that the success of online learning heavily relies on the learner's ability to autonomously regulate their learning, this study focuses on…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Metacognition
Dagnaw, Animut Tadele – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension at Debre Markos University. A quantitative approach was taken to gather and analyze the data. Out of 235 students learning at the college, 61 samples were taken randomly. To investigate their knowledge of vocabulary breadth,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Comprehension, Language Tests
Tenison, Caitlin; Ling, Guangming; McCulla, Laura – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
In this paper we use historic score-reporting records and test-taker metadata to inform data-driven recommendations that support international students in their choice of undergraduate institutions for study in the United States. We investigate the use of Structural Topic Modeling (STM) as a context-aware, probabilistic recommendation method that…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, College Choice, Models