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W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin; Richard M. Ryan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
According to self-determination theory, the need to experience competence is one of a well-recognized trio of basic psychological needs, alongside the need for autonomy and relatedness. Although often assessed at the activity level, the need for competence is met situationally when learners feel able to understand and affect the world around them.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Needs
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Yiran Zhang; Mostafa Papi – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
The present study employs regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997) to investigate the effects of L2 speakers' chronic regulatory focus on their L2 pragmatic versus grammatical awareness. It involved the participation of 121 Chinese students, who are English language learners, at a university in the United States. Haws et al.'s (2010) questionnaire…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Griet Boone; June Eyckmans – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Despite the growing body of studies on collocation learning in SLA research, there are hardly any studies taking the perspective of the individual learner or studies that have examined the effect of individual differences. This study--a qualitative component of a mixed-methods longitudinal project--presents an in-depth exploration of the intro-…
Descriptors: German, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tzu-Hua Chen – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Despite evidence on the interaction between cognitive individual differences (IDs) and task complexity, our knowledge of how affective IDs, such as foreign language enjoyment (FLE), interact with task complexity and other factors is limited. Since tasks and activities were found by Dewaele and MacIntyre (2014) to be most relevant to FLE, and since…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication, Task Analysis
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Hong, Jiye – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
To date, very limited research interest has been given to the strategies English medium instruction (EMI) teachers or lecturers deploy to provide corrective feedback (CF) on the language use to their students during class interaction. In other words, when EMI teachers incidentally focus on students' problematic language use, how do they correct it…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Vashti Wai Yu Lee; Lee Her; Peter I. De Costa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This article presents a narrative inquiry of a Chinese heritage mother to theorize and explicate how historical, relational, and spatial processes impacted her negotiation with power and agency in relation to her own heritage language (HL) identity development. A narrative approach enables us to draw on participant counter-stories against master…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Cultural Background, Bilingual Education, Chinese