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Direct linkYun Bai – SAGE Open, 2024
This mixed-methods study examined the effectiveness of Rosetta Stone, a mobile-based language learning application, on Chinese EFL students' listening, speaking, foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and foreign language anxiety (FLA). Two groups of intermediate Chinese EFL students from a language institute, with 33 students in the control group and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Download full textElsa Desi Putri; Bambang Yudi Cahyono; Nanang Zubaidi – TESL-EJ, 2024
Flipped learning is believed can open valuable class time to higher-level activities. However, the findings of previous studies on the effects of flipped learning on the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are sometimes mixed. Hence, this study investigates the effect of flipped learning on EFL tertiary students' ability to write…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Ibrahim H. Alzahrani; Mohammad R. Alnufaie – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study uses Panadero et al.'s (2021) Deep Learning Strategies Questionnaire to discover EFL learners' strategies from a new perspective. The questionnaire is a newly designed self-report instrument with ground-breaking features constructed with validity and reliability to measure students' actual strategies in real situations. The current…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kraisila Kanont; Pawarit Pingmuang; Thewawuth Simasathien; Suchaya Wisnuwong; Benz Wiwatsiripong; Kanitta Poonpirome; Noawanit Songkram; Jintavee Khlaisang – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2024
This study investigates the factors influencing the adoption of Generative-AI tools amongst Thai university students, employing the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical framework. Data from 911 higher education students from 10 different Thai Universities Health Sciences, Sciences and Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology
Eddy C. H. Wong; Min Ney Wong; Shelley L. Velleman – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Pitch variations (tone productions) have been reported as a measure to differentiate Cantonese-speaking children with and without childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). This study aims to examine fundamental frequency (F0) changes within syllables and the effects of syllable structure, lexical status, and syllable positions on F0 in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Sino Tibetan Languages, Preschool Children, Speech Impairments
Art Tsang; Scott Aubrey; Rui Yuan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Against the backdrop of internationalisation and growing attention to intercultural experiences in tertiary education, this mixed-methods study examined, in part I, language learning benefits reaped by active participants in intercultural activities. As English is widely used for communication among multilinguals, part II of the study focused…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Multicultural Education, Multilingualism
Minhee Eom; Jean Braithwaite – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The motivation of linguistically diverse young adults to learn Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) was studied at a university on the US-Mexico border. This diglossic setting permitted a complex investigation of multiple elements, including L2-motivation theoretical attributes, exposure to Korean contemporary pop culture, and the linguistic and…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, College Students, Student Motivation
Linda Espey; Marta Ghio; Christian Bellebaum; Laura Bechtold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Lee Her – Language Policy, 2024
Using a case study design, this research explores how two department chairs, Jan and Tammy, in community colleges implement AB 705, an assessment policy impacting California ESL programs. AB 705 seeks to centralize previous multiple measures legislation in California by requiring the use of high school data in community college course placement.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Department Heads, Educational Policy, Community Colleges
Qing Liu; Zhiying Zhong; John C. Nesbit – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Argumentation is a complex intellectual skill essential for academic achievement in a range of scholarly disciplines. Argumentative writing demands effective coordination of language use, reasoning processes, and background knowledge about a given topic. It is a cognitively challenging activity, especially for students learning English as a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Prewriting, Writing Instruction
Exploring Children's L2 Disciplinary Literacy through a Multimodal Science Project in a CLIL Context
Yvette Coyle; Julio Roca de Larios – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study explores the ways in which young second language learners in an intact fourth-grade content and language integrated (CLIL) science class drew on the affordances of multiple semiotic resources including language, images, sound, movement, etc., to construct disciplinary knowledge in the context of a multimodal project on machines. After…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Grade 4, Science Instruction
Jessie S. Barrot – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
This emerging technology report delves into the role of ChatGPT, an OpenAI conversational AI, in language learning. The initial section introduces ChatGPT's nature and highlights its features, including accessibility, personalization, immersive learning, and instant feedback, which render it a valuable asset for language learners and educators…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing, Language Acquisition
John S. Y. Lee; Chak Yan Yeung; Zhenqun Yang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
A text recommendation system helps language learners find suitable reading materials. Similar to graded readers, most systems assign difficulty levels or school grades to the documents in their database, and then identify the documents that best match the language proficiency of the learner. This graded approach has two main limitations. First,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Michael Yeldham – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Production of certain English phonemes relies heavily on effort from the abdominal region, and under-utilization of this region by second language English speakers can create difficulties pronouncing these sounds. In particular, production of long vowel/diphthong sounds requires sustained abdominal contraction to maintain the length of these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Phonemes, Pronunciation Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
