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Daniel Jung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research into second language acquisition (SLA) has shown that individual difference (ID) variables can be strong predictors of language achievement (e.g., Dornyei, 2003; Skehan, 2003). Traditionally, this research conceptualized ID variables as static and monolithic variables (e.g., Dornyei, 2010). More recently scholars have questioned this…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Daniel Walter – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
There is a need for a continued focus on language learning in advanced language classes beyond the foundations that are formed in the beginning and intermediate levels. Despite this need, little work exists on how to implement language-focused instruction in upper-level courses. As one possible solution, this paper outlines a functional,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Authors, German Literature
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Miroslaw Pawlak; Kata Csizér; Mariusz Kruk; Joanna Zawodniak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Grit is among the individual difference (ID) variables that have recently come to the attention of researchers investigating second language acquisition. While some empirical evidence has been accumulated, it is clearly scant and limited, also because of the fact that many studies have looked into domain-general grit rather than this attribute as…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Katherine Ward; Carlos Andrés Rojas; Rajiv Rao; Erwin Lares – Hispania, 2025
This longitudinal study tracked ten L1 English-speaking learners' acquisition of Spanish voiceless stops /ptk/ by measuring their voice onset time (VOT) over an academic year in two distinct contexts of learning. Living in a Spanish-speaking dorm, participants in the experimental group experienced a "domestic partial-immersion," in which…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Miroslaw Pawlak; Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Mariusz Kruk – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Relatively few studies in the field of second language acquisition have undertaken to investigate the interrelationships of constellations of individual difference variables. This is certainly true of how complexes of ID factors impact motivation to learn an additional language. In order to address this gap, the paper reports a study that examined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
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Shuyun Han; Zhaoli Zhang; Hai Liu; Weiliang Kong; Zengcan Xue; Taihe Cao; Jiangbo Shu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Online learning democratizes and provides flexibility in accessing education, but it also places greater demands on students' self-regulated learning strategies. Previous studies have explored the important impact of effort regulation on academic performance. However, there remains more to explore on the dynamics of effort regulation among…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Self Management
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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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Coppinger, Lucy; Sheridan, Sarah – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
Speaking anxiety is a form of foreign language anxiety which may reduce students' willingness to communicate orally. Despite accent being one of the most salient aspects of speech, there has been little research to date on the relationship between non-native accent and speaking anxiety. The purpose of this study is therefore to examine English…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Speech Communication, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
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Sukying, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Language learning strategies (LLS) are conscious behaviours used by language learners to foster the acquisition, storage, and use of new information. This study investigated the LLS used by Thai EFL university students using a questionnaire based on Oxford's (1990) LLS taxonomy. It also identified the relationship and the difference in LLS use…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jacee Cho – Second Language Research, 2024
Using self-paced reading, the present study compared native English and adult L1-Korean-L2-English speakers' processing behaviors during online comprehension of underinformative scalar sentences and non-scalar sentences like "Some/All elephants have trunks and ears." Results indicate that native speakers showed online sensitivity (i.e.…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Linxi – Hispania, 2022
The study examines cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and voice onset time (VOT) in the production of Spanish stop consonants by native speakers of Mandarin Chinese who have learned English as their second language (L2). Six Chinese nationals studying Spanish in the United States at beginning levels and an advanced-level control were recorded…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Yoshimura, Masahiro; Hiromori, Tomohito; Kirimura, Ryo – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Although cooperative learning is a well-researched framework with many reports on its effective implementation in education, successful cooperative learning practice remains elusive in the classroom. The literature suggests certain elements of cooperative learning are key, but few studies have addressed their importance with respect to the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Journal Writing
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Lin Sophie Teng – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study examines the predictive effects of motivational beliefs and self-efficacy on multiple dimensions of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Undergraduate students (n = 389) were recruited voluntarily from four universities in mainland China. They were invited to complete a set of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Metacognition, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
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Pawlak, Miroslaw; Kruk, Mariusz; Zawodniak, Joanna – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Although boredom can be regarded as a ubiquitous emotion in most educational settings, including foreign and second language classrooms, and this condition can have a detrimental effect on the process of learning, it has to a large extent escaped the attention of second language acquisition researchers dealing with individual learner differences.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Ranjan, Ranjeeva; Philominraj, Andrew; Saavedra, Rodrigo Arellano – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Language learning strategies (LLS) research began in the mid-1970s with the main idea of individual differences in learning a foreign language focusing primarily on the characteristics of a good language learner. In the literature review, the use of LLS has been reported to have a positive influence on proficiency. The goal of this research is to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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