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Yan, Chunmei; Gao, Yuanyuan; He, Chuanjun – Frontiers of Education in China, 2020
This study set out to explore non-English major postgraduates' use of motivational regulation strategies in English learning. Subjects for this study were 156 Chinese postgraduates studying in a national teacher education university in central China. A self-reported questionnaire and individual semi-structured interviews were complementarily…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Asians, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
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Shen, Siying; Mazgutova, Diana; McCray, Gareth – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
This study investigated the link between future L2 selves and Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in the classroom in the UK university context. We applied a mixed methods approach to collect data from 121 Chinese overseas students where a questionnaire was used before semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants. Two key…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chamberlain, Michael Allen – Christian Higher Education, 2020
More than 300,000 Chinese students attend U.S. universities annually (USDHS, 2018), many of whom reportedly "Leave China, Study in America, Find Jesus" (Zhang, 2016). However, research on this phenomenon of worldview change is thin, especially as related to the experiences of atheist or nonreligious Chinese graduate students attending…
Descriptors: Christianity, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
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Midgette, Allegra J. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethics, Gender Differences
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Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Horn, Keren Mertens; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Cordes, Sarah A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
The Housing Choice Voucher program is currently the largest federally funded housing assistance program. Although the program aims to provide housing assistance, it also could affect children's educational outcomes by stabilizing their families, enabling them to move to better homes, neighborhoods, and schools, and increasing their disposable…
Descriptors: Housing, Federal Programs, Public Housing, Urban Schools
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Nesbitt, Eleanor – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
Caste, and awareness of it, have been a persistent, though changing, feature of South Asian communities' experience in the UK. In twenty-first century Britain the issue of caste has come to the fore and has been hotly contested, in relation to equality legislation. In this wider context, the present article maps some of caste's historical…
Descriptors: Social Class, Asians, Educational History, Higher Education
Liw, Lina – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A growing body of research has indicated the challenges and difficulties international students face including but not limited to language barriers, academic struggles, social isolation, discrimination, and psychological distress. Among international students, East Asian international students represent a large subgroup and report higher…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Coping, Foreign Students, Academic Persistence
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Yu, Xia; Liu, Chengyu – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Although much has been discussed about the use of reading aloud (RA) outside China, it has been one of the least investigated learning/teaching behaviours in ELT in China. The paper reports the results of a series of semi-structured interviews, in which learners and teachers were invited to identify the reasons and problems in the use of RA in…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Shin, Sun-Young; Lee, Senyung; Lidster, Ryan – Language Testing, 2021
In this study we investigated the potential for a shared-first-language (shared-L1) effect on second language (L2) listening test scores using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses. We did this in order to understand how accented speech may influence performance at the item level, while controlling for key variables including listening…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Tests, Native Language, Scores
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Su, Jueyun; Aryanata, Trisna; Shih, Yachun; Dalsky, David – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This 'inclusive practitioner research' study presents a collaborative 'virtual intercultural fieldwork' project in which Balinese and Chinese university students communicated in English to explore similar emic cultural concepts related to the Japanese concept of "amae" (presumed indulgence); namely, "manying" (Balinese) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
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Jalleh, Christine Mary; Mahfoodh, Omer Hassan Ali; Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Japanese EFL international students may experience high levels of apprehension when communicating in English due to their culture, educational background, attitudes towards the role of English in their society, and lack of opportunities to practice speaking in English. Although the students in this study had studied English before joining the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Japanese, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Emma – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2021
The sudden burst of COVID-19 and the shift to remote schooling have posed a special challenge for families whose first language is not English. Engaging in a narrative inquiry, I tell stories of parents from three Chinese immigrant families and how they coped with young children's remote schooling during COVID. I present the challenges immigrant…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Suárez, Mario I.; Dabney, Alan R.; Waxman, Hersh C.; Scott, Timothy P.; Bentz, Adrienne O. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The present study explores demographics, pre-university characteristics and multi-year (2003-2013) tracking of a census of 53,077 students who initially declared a STEM major upon entering a research university in the United States Southwest and seeks to predict graduation with a STEM and non-STEM degree. Guided by QuantCrit theory, we use…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Majors (Students), College Students
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Cun, Aijuan – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2021
Abundant research has examined the literacy practices of immigrant students, but little is known about the transnational literacies of Burmese refugee children and parents. Drawing upon literacy as a social practice and transnationalism, this study investigated the transnational literacies of two Burmese refugee mothers and their children. The…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Immigrants, Refugees, Parent Child Relationship
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Enriquez, Laura E.; Chavarria, Karina; Rodriguez, Victoria E.; Ayón, Cecilia; Ellis, Basia D.; Hagan, Melissa J.; Jefferies, Julián; Lara, Jannet; Morales Hernandez, Martha; Murillo, Enrique G.; Nájera, Jennifer R.; Offidani-Bertrand, Carly; Oropeza Fujimoto, Maria; Ro, Annie; Rosales, William E; Sarabia, Heidy; Soltero López, Ana K.; Valadez, Mercedes; Valdez, Zulema; Velarde Pierce, Sharon – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students' experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, At Risk Students, Student Experience
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