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Lauder, Scott – International TESOL & Technology Journal, 2022
Many institutions around the world use the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) to assess test-takers' proficiency in English, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where a given Band score (or its equivalent) is required for direct entry to majors taught in English. However, despite the test's importance and despite being one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Student Characteristics
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Wanting Wang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study considered the social emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic. It utilized quantitative methods to investigate the L2 self-images (i.e., ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, and feared L2 self) held by EFL college students in formal online English classes, based on Dörnyei's (2005) L2 Motivational Self System. Meanwhile, this research proved the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, COVID-19
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Vlaeva, Denny; Dörnyei, Zoltán – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Future second language (L2) self-images have proven integral to L2 motivation, prompting several attempts to purposefully develop learners' ideal L2 selves over the past decade through the use of vision-building techniques. Some of these 'vision interventions' have reported successfully enhancing learners' L2 self-images and motivation; other…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries