The use of the flipped classroom has increased in the context of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). However, only a few studies have reported on how to expand flipped classroom instructional strategies in EFL writing classes. Meanwhile, prior studies have examined the effect of self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) on improving…

Saudi undergraduates often struggle with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speaking skills, primarily due to a high level of Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE). This study examines the impact of Language Speaking Learning Strategies (LSLS) mediated by the Telegram smartphone application on reducing FNE among preparatory-year students at Najran…

In this article I present the notion of ethnolinguistic cornering as an outcome of the Everyday Languaging project and argue for its relevance in ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics. The Everyday Languaging project is a long-term cooperation with a Copenhagen school where a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has…

Multilingual English Learner (MLL) students are the fastest-growing student population in the U.S. and are often academically behind their native English-speaking peers. One factor in the achievement gap is MLL students' ability to gain English proficiency and inadequate teacher professional development. An explanatory study was conducted to…

Practitioner research plays a crucial role in education because of its applied nature and its ability to address pertinent issues within learning and teaching contexts. Exploratory practice (EP) is a form of practitioner research that emphasizes puzzles while striving to understand and improve students' and teachers' quality of life in the…

This study aims to identify EFL learners' prompting behaviors observed during ChatGPT-assisted English writing revision and examine how these behaviors affect the quality of their revised writings. Specifically, we investigated learners' objectives for using ChatGPT during revision, their prompt-writing approaches, and the alignment between these…

This study investigates the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning experiences of Chinese primary school students, aiming to conduct a comprehensive comparison between the impacts of playful pedagogical activities and traditional review, practice, and recitation methods. A total of 80 fourth-graders from two classes taught by the same…

The development of modern technologies and the integration of AI into all aspects of life pose challenges for participants in the educational process. On the one hand, using chatbots and generative AI tools provides learners with unlimited opportunities to quickly and easily access a large amount of information and receive help with various…

The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) is a widely recognised tool for assessing students' learning processes by measuring key components of their study behaviours and attitudes. This research explores the interplay of three components of the LASSI inventory, skill, will, and self-regulation, and their collective impact on English as…

Critical media literacy needs to be seen as a central component of language teacher education, especially in the postdigital age. One underexplored dimension, however, is digital assessment literacy and in particular digital feedback literacy (Schluer, 2022a). Even though recent years witnessed a proliferation of digital technologies for feedback…

Utilizing effective reading comprehension strategies is a critically important aspect of the reading process in L2. This study explored the effect of short stories and explicit instruction of reading comprehension strategies on reading comprehension. As a quasi-experimental study, a mixed-method design was adopted, and the data were collected from…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to education, with school closures affecting over one billion children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in mathematics and science. Using data from TIMSS 2023, which assesses fourth and eighth-grade achievements across 71…

This study examined students' perceptions and attitudes towards generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in language learning, particularly in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing. Employing a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 399 Saudi university EFL students to assess self-reported associations between AI chatbots and…

The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of motivational, cognitive, and reflexive components in developing communicative competence among pre-service teachers within the context of multilingual education. A total of 162 participants took part in the study, including 82 students in the experimental group and 80 in the control group. A…

Idioms entail a competition between bottom-up and top-down activations of literal and figurative meanings. The present study explored the involvement of cognitive control in processing Hebrew ambiguous idioms. Fifty subjects have completed a self-paced reading task and a response inhibition, stop-signal task (SST). Subjects read 26 matched pairs…