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Peng, Yuan-yuan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Institutionalization is mentioned over and over again in film "The Shawshank Redemption". In this film, the institution refers to the fixed prison institution, and institutionalization refers to a process of rigidifying prisoners' behaviors, thoughts and mindsets in some imperceptible constraint mechanisms. In this process, the prisoners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Films, Correctional Institutions
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Tee, Xue Ting; Joanna, Tjin Ai Tan; Kamarulzaman, Wirawahida – English Language Teaching, 2020
Despite a growing body of research on instructor techniques and treatments to mitigate public speaking anxiety, this issue remains prominent, especially among university students. An alternative to mitigating such anxiety is to identify authentic coping strategies that university students could practice in actual situations. Numerous studies have…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Anxiety, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Jing, Tang; Dancheng, Luo; Ye, Zhao – English Language Teaching, 2016
Purpose: The entrepreneurship is a course of gaining knowledge from the failure and stimulating positive energy constantly. The entrepreneur's psychological resilience is the key to gain knowledge (positive energy) from failure (negative energy). The education of undergraduate entrepreneurship is one of the priorities these days. Educators shall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Entrepreneurship, Failure
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Wu, Chia-Pei; Lin, Huey-Ju – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study utilized the Oxford Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and an English writing anxiety scale to examine the relationship between learning strategies and English writing anxiety in 102 university-level English language learners (ELLs) with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) in a university in Taiwan. Kruskal Wallis Test…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Anxiety, English Language Learners, Limited English Speaking
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El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam – English Language Teaching, 2015
In recent years, a number of studies have attempted to assess the English vocabulary knowledge of high-school students and undergraduate university students in contexts where English is a foreign language (EFL). The present paper explores the lexical development of Arab undergraduates at a Saudi University where EFL is the medium of instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Vocabulary, Second Language Learning
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Ghoneim, Nahed Mohamed Mahmoud – English Language Teaching, 2013
The current study focused on the problems which students encounter while listening to the English language, the mental processes they activate in listening comprehension, and the strategies they use in different phases of comprehension. Also, it aimed to find out whether there were any differences between advanced and intermediate students in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alavinia, Parviz; Ahmadzadeh, Tala – English Language Teaching, 2012
Though several researchers have thus far attempted to address the viable relationship between EI and burnout, it seems that few have approached the notion of burnout by considering the influence of teachers' coping resources such as EI especially in an EFL context. Thus, in an attempt to bridge this gap, the present study sought to explore the…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers