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Marie Rickert – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This article explores how teachers and learners in a Dutch as Second Language (L2) classroom in the Netherlands make sense of themselves, one another, and thereby of the diversity encountered in the class, through practices of categorisation and positioning regarding nationality, place, and culture. Categories raised during class gain meaning in…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Diversity
Elena Makarova – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
The paper deals with the investigation of theoretical and practical issues on the organization and management of EFL peer learning. Lack of understanding of the mechanism of peer learning as a system of relationships and interactions hinders creating the conditions for effective education. The study aims to identify and systematize the key…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Peer Teaching, Second Language Instruction
Irene Acevedo de la Peña; Daniel Cassany – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
There is currently little research on the use of podcasting as a learning tool in the tertiary-level foreign language classroom. Here we attempt to partly fill that gap through a multiple case study of three university teachers who use this technology in their courses in Spanish as a foreign language. We obtained data for analysis primarily in two…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Computer Software, Handheld Devices, Information Dissemination
Lu-Geng Sun; Jirada Wudthayagorn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study investigated the beliefs, attitudes, and motivation of Thai and Chinese undergraduate students in relation to English language learning. Utilizing a mixed-method, explanatory sequential design, it aims to provide a better understanding of the three variables mentioned above. The quantitative data analysis showed disparities between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Xian Li; Jiying Han – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Taking the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) model as its theoretical basis, this study aimed to extend knowledge of the learning motivation of Korean language learners. A survey questionnaire was administered to 967 Korean language learners at 28 universities in China to investigate their motivation for learning the Korean language and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Korean, College Students
Silvie Prevrátilová – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Although motivation is an extensively discussed topic, minor languages deserve more research attention. This qualitative multiple case study explores motivation to learn Czech as a second language in Beginners' Czech language courses for Erasmus students in the Czech Republic through the lens of the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), searching…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Slavic Languages, Introductory Courses
Angela Gardner; Karen Lichtman – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This study investigated how questioning strategies impact language learner performance. Specifically, it explored how questioning strategies influence (i) verb production and subject-verb agreement in the target language, and (ii) learner confidence in completing tasks without translation software. Sixty-eight novice language learners enrolled in…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Second Language Learning, Spanish, High School Students
Haiwei Zhang; Peng Sun; Yaowaluk Bianglae; Winda Widiawati – Language Testing, 2024
In order to address the needs of the continually growing number of Chinese language learners, the present study developed and presented initial validation of a 100-item Chinese vocabulary proficiency test (CVPT) for learners of Chinese as a second/foreign language (CS/FL) using Item Response Theory among 170 CS/FL learners from Indonesia and 354…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Vocabulary, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Tugçe Karapolat; Tolga Özsen; Levent Çetinkaya – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aims to investigate how social media tools, in other words social network services (SNS), affects the success of Japanese language learners in learning Japanese culture in undergraduate programs. For this research, a mixed method approach was used with a quantitative, quasi-experimental research design including a pre-test-post-test…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
Yuting Mao; Jian-E Peng – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
The practice of English-medium instruction (EMI) is increasing worldwide. While various obstacles and challenges facing EMI have been reported, little is known about the learning strategies employed by students to cope with EMI courses, especially among students of different disciplines. This study investigated the strategies used by students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Carmen Durham – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Recent calls encourage teacher education programs to examine how they address equity within educational technology coursework. This study therefore conceptualizes equity specifically related to using digital tools with multilingual learners. Drawing on a technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) framework informed by prior research on…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Bilingual Students, Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Samah Mohamad Dulli – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The partners of the Saudi students who come to the United States on scholarships to earn a degree (Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D.) are eligible for full scholarships as well. However, most of them fail to proceed in earning a degree or fulfill the language proficiency requirement needed to join an academic degree program. This study surveys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Females, Attitudes
Anamaria Bodea; Pavel Trofimovich – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This study explored the notion of flow, which refers to a person's sense of being completely absorbed in a task, as it applies to second language (L2) learning and use. Previously, flow has been mainly examined through researcher-generated descriptions to which learners reacted using Likert-type scales. In this study, we examined flow through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, French
Kutay Uzun – TESOL Journal, 2024
The genre-based approach (GBA) to teaching second language (L2) writing follows the stages of establishing context, modelling, analysis, joint construction, and independent construction. The passage from joint construction to independent construction in the GBA requires scaffolding. Thus, studies on GBA suggest teacher support in independent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students
Yasmine Sedeek – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mastering the phonological aspects of a second language (L2) poses significant challenges for adult learners, often affecting their intelligibility in acquiring that language (Derwing, Munro, & Wiebe, 1998). McAllister (1997) has highlighted L2 learners' struggles in perceiving and producing novel segmental features, which is corroborated by…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Arabic