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Chung, Juyeon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines whether EFL and ESL Korean learners of English are able to produce and perceive two English phonological contrasts that depend on vowel duration differences, coda consonant voicing contrasts and the tense-lax distinction in vowels. For production, it examines differences in vowel duration and vowel quality associated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vowels, Phonemes
Keles, Ufuk – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to seek answers to how receiving his PhD at the University of Alabama influenced the author's ongoing academic discourse socialization as an international graduate student coming from Turkey. To that end, the author incorporates second language and academic discourse socialization theories with the concept of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Foreign Countries, Socialization, English (Second Language)
Fitrawati; Kamil, Insan; Perrodin, David D. – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2023
This study investigates the levels of foreign language reading anxiety among EFL students at a state university in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, to identify the main factors contributing to this anxiety. The study included 30 participants who provided data through two questionnaires. The first questionnaire utilized the Foreign Language Reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Reading Attitudes
Michelle M. Dutton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explores the roles that undergraduate Spanish as a second language (L2) learners ascribe to their identities, backgrounds, sociocultural contexts, and imaginations in the development of their ideal second language (L2) selves (Dornyei 2009), rooted L2 selves (MacIntyre et al., 2017) and investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015;…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Amanda Elizabeth Stefanik – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to describe how community college students in Northeastern states describe the motivation to enroll in a non-required foreign language course. Self-determination theory was the theoretical framework for this study. One overarching research question guided the study: How do community college…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Decision Making
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)
Ryan, Jonathon; Foster, Pauline; Fester, Anthea; Wang, Yi; Field, Jenny; Kearney, Celine; Yap, Jia Rong – Language Learning, 2023
This article responds to calls for greater inclusivity in second language acquisition research and, more specifically, to calls to explore further the impact of first language literacy on second language oracy (e.g., Tarone et al., 2009). We conducted a partial replication of Foster and Skehan's (1996) influential study of task complexity,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Native Language, Cognitive Processes
Hofweber, Julia; Aumônier, Lizzy; Janke, Vikki; Gullberg, Marianne; Marshall, Chloë – Language Learning, 2023
We investigated whether sign-naïve learners can infer and learn the meaning of signs after minimal exposure to continuous, naturalistic input in the form of a weather forecast in Swedish Sign Language. Participants were L1-English adults. Two experimental groups watched the forecast once (n = 40) or twice (n = 42); a control group did not (n =…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Visual Stimuli
Theres Grüter; Jieun Kim; Hitoshi Nishizawa; Jue Wang; Raed Alzahrani; Yu-Tzu Chang; Hoan Nguyen; Michaela Nuesser; Akari Ohba; Sachiko Roos; Mayuko Yusa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study presents a conceptual replication of Birulés et al.'s (2020, Experiment 2) investigation of native and nonnative listeners' selective attention to a talker's mouth with the goal of better understanding the potentially modulating role of proficiency in listeners' reliance on audiovisual speech cues. Listeners' eye gaze was recorded while…
Descriptors: Attention, Native Language, Listening, Human Body
Susana Pérez Castillejo; Katherine Urzua-Parra – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study conceptually replicated Huensch and Tracy-Ventura's (2017) analysis of the relationship between L1 and L2 utterance fluency with adult L1-English learners of Spanish. Data from 88 participants were analyzed to explore the proportion of the variance in L2 fluency measures that can be attributed to the corresponding L1 measures, and the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Fluency, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Daniel, Bethany – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
World language (WL) education has the potential to shift perspectives toward equity. To accomplish this, the field must consider how it is situated within societal systems that perpetuate racial inequity. This systematic historical analysis of literature examined how the term race and related terms appeared historically in a set of primary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, World Literature, Periodicals
Al-Deaibes, Mutasim; Jarrah, Marwan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study investigates the production of Arabic intervocalic geminate obstruents as produced by American L2 learners of Arabic. The participants of the study were 24 Arabic learners (12 advanced, 12 beginners) at North Georgia University and 12 native speakers of Jordanian Arabic (the control group). An examination of the results reveals that…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, College Students, Foreign Countries
Helén Egerhag; Heidi Selenius; Linda Fälth; Idor Svensson – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Many second language (L2) students in Sweden struggle with reading in Swedish. There needs to be more research on how L2 students with weak word decoding skills in Swedish could be individually supported. Therefore, the current study examined the impact of a systematic and intensive word decoding intervention in Swedish among individual L2…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Intervention, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Elvira Barrios; Irene Acosta-Manzano – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study aimed to identify associations and predictors of willingness to communicate (WTC) of adult foreign language (FL) learners and whether they are contingent upon the FL being learned. To this end, our research investigated learner variables associated with WTC in adult FL learners of English and of French in an under-researched field of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French, Foreign Countries
Assim S. Alrajhi – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Motivated by the proliferation of artificial intelligence that has the potential to promote self-access learning, this study utilizes a sequential explanatory quasi-experimental mixed methods design to investigate the efficacy of Google Assistant (GA) in facilitating second language (L2) vocabulary learning compared to online dictionaries. A…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Vocabulary Development
Janne Bondi Johannessen; Björn Lundquist; Yulia Rodina; Eirik Tengesdal; Nina Hagen Kaldhol; Emel Türker; Valantis Fyndanis – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian with three different first languages (L1s): Greek, Russian, and Turkish. In particular, it investigates the role of the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Norwegian