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Download full textKim M. Mitchell; Marnie Kramer; M. Gregory Tweedie – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
Literacy is complex and impacts safety in nursing. When using language, nurses are constantly switching between medical language proficiency, academic language proficiency, and social language proficiency. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to trial an English language exam specific to the nursing profession -- the Canadian English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Education, Literacy, Language Usage
Yazid Basthomi; Francisca Maria Ivone; M. Kharis; Joko Slamet – Online Learning, 2025
This study addresses critical gaps in English proficiency assessments, particularly for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, by focusing on the foundational aspect of needs analysis in designing a platform to assist EFL students in preparation for real English proficiency tests. The existing tests, such as TOEFL and IELTS, often fail to…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liu, Xinmiao – English Language Teaching, 2018
A longitudinal study was conducted to assess changes in and contributing factors of learner belief for a sample of 70 Chinese foreign language learners. Foreign language proficiency and learner factors such as learner belief and learning strategy were measured four times at approximately fifty-day intervals. The results show that there were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
El-Sakka, Samah Mohammed Fahim – English Language Teaching, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching some self-regulated strategies to Egyptian university students on improving their speaking proficiency and reducing their speaking anxiety. The design of the study was a one group pre-posttest quasi experimental design. Forty 3rd- year EFL university students were selected to form the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Rahimirad, Maryam; Zare-ee, Abbas – International Journal of Instruction, 2015
Metacognitive strategy instruction (MetSI) has been shown to have a strong impact on various aspects of English as a second/foreign language instruction. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of MetSI on the improvement of listening self-efficacy among English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners. A group of sixty female undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
Ping, Rebecca Lee Su – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Past research has found that many pre-university L2 learners, having completed an Intensive English Program (IEP) still have difficulty in undertaking various disciplines in English-speaking tertiary institutions and continue to exhibit numerous linguistic problems (Bialystok, 2001, Celce Murcia 2001). The purpose of this paper is to present the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Intensive Language Courses
