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Jeffrey Dawala Wilang – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper presents the findings of a large-scale quantitative study, which involved surveying 1,184 undergraduates from a Thai science and technology university to assess both their general and language mindsets. The study's primary aims were to identify the prevalence of growth or fixed among these students, explore potential statistical…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics
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Qiangzhen Zou – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
This study employed a questionnaire to investigate the level, sources, and coping strategies of English learning anxiety among non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese local normal university under blended learning mode. The study revealed that non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese local normal university generally experienced a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Sucharat Rimkeeratikul – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The research was conducted at a public university in Bangkok, utilizing the Personal Report on Intercultural Communication Apprehension (PRICA) to measure Intercultural Communication Apprehension (ICA). The study aimed to compare the ICA levels among three groups of students within the same university: bachelor's degree students majoring in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Anxiety
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Vararin Charoenpornsook; Athip Thumvichit – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining popularity in higher education (HE) worldwide, with the aim of enhancing students' English proficiency and professional abilities. However, many students still struggle with learning various subjects in English. While the challenges in EMI are widely discussed in many studies, it is necessary to look…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Coping, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Khaled Barkaoui – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Many English-medium universities employ a compensatory model to establish cutscores on English language proficiency tests for student admissions. In this model, students can have different scores on different sections of the test provided their overall score meets the admission cutscore. This practice raises questions regarding potential variation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Language Proficiency, Profiles
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Minh Hoang Dong; Anita Habók – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies have received significant attention among researchers and become the topic of many empirical studies, since they are believed to significantly influence achievement levels in acquiring a foreign language. The current research investigated the SRL strategies most commonly employed by Vietnamese English as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Reuben H. Esteban; Kannika Pratumtone – THAITESOL Journal, 2024
This study primarily aimed to investigate the Communication Apprehension (CA) experienced by students at the Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna (RMUTL) Phitsanulok, Thailand in the context of their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes. A total of 281 students from three faculties--Business Administration and Liberal Arts (BALA),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
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Pitchayapa Wongyimyong; Kittitouch Soontornwipast – rEFLections, 2024
Autonomous learning, which emphasizes learners taking charge of their knowledge acquisition, plays a vital role in effective English language acquisition. However, attempts to foster autonomous learning in the Thai context face many challenges. Therefore, this mixed-methods study explores how autonomous learning thrives in the context to inform…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Barriers
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Huan Li; Fei Cao; Weiwei Dai – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
To tackle the problem of graduate employability (GE), higher education researchers and practitioners are suggesting the inclusion of employability modules in university curricula. However, the orthodoxy of the major-based undergraduate curriculum (MBUC) has rarely been challenged in the GE literature. Drawing on Clarke's (2018) [Clarke, M. (2018).…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Undergraduate Study, Majors (Students)
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Isoda, Mayuka; Kondo, Akiko – SAGE Open, 2022
This cross-sectional study aimed to examine factors associated with Japanese undergraduate nursing students' motivations and needs to study English. An online survey at one university in Tokyo was conducted from July to October 2018. This survey included students' basic interest in and reasons for learning English, attitude toward communicating…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Federica Goldoni; Stacy Rusnak – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
International education has focused on the learning processes of minority, low-income college students and learners of color. This study analyzes the experiences of nine minority, first-generation U.S. undergraduates from a four-year college in the southeastern U.S. who pursued study abroad and Global Studies during 2015-2022. Global Studies is an…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Study Abroad, Self Concept, Cultural Background
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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
Volodymyr Lazar – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Like many other areas of human knowledge, the field of language learning has undergone changes as a consequence of the application of digital technologies. Extensive exposure and anytime and anywhere access availability to data in a second or foreign language (L2) bring almost unlimited learning opportunities for digital age students, which…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Language Skills, Student Characteristics
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Aljuaid, Hind – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Motivation is the major contributor to the students' learning English as a second language. However, varying reasons have been suggested by different researchers and theorists to explain the reasons and dimensions of this motivation. Therefore, the study aimed to evaluate the motivation to learn English as a foreign language (EFL) among 157 Saudi…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Barbara Pizziconi; Noriko Iwasaki – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Upon encountering unfamiliar words or observing local practices in study abroad contexts, second language learners may discuss aspects of the target language and culture with their peers -- 'non-native' friends from the same cultural background or 'natives' of the target culture. Such mediations are instrumental in elaborating understandings, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Cultural Context, Stereotypes
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