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Teacher-Student Relationships Moderate the Link between Socioeconomic Status and Foreign Language Learning: Evidence from China
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Lihong Ma; Leifeng Xiao; Zhi Liu; Jian Liu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The importance of socioeconomic status (SES) in foreign language learning has received increasing attention. However, previous research mainly examined the direct link between SES and foreign language learning, and few explored what might mitigate this link, especially in collectivistic culture. Based on social capital theory and the attachment…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
The Effects of Pre-Task Explicit Instruction on L2 Oral Self-Repair Behaviour
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Michael Sadeghi; Mostafa Pourhaji – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Social Psychological Accounts of Peer Emotion Transfer in EFL Classrooms: A Doubly Latent Multilevel Analysis
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Kaiqi Shao; Brian Parkinson – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Based on theories of emotion contagion and social appraisal in interpersonal affect transfer and the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the present study examined associations between students' perceptions of peer emotions and their own self-perceived emotions in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, English (Second Language), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
From Task-Based Training to Task-Based Instruction: Novice Language Teachers' Experiences and Perspectives
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Lara Bryfonski – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers' cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Principles, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
The Effects of Teaching Songs during Foreign Language Classes on Students' Foreign Language Anxiety
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Dolean, Dacian Dorin – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) has been the subject of several studies aimed to optimize learning of a foreign language in the classroom. However, few studies provide specific curriculum-based methodological strategies to be used in the classroom in order to lower the anxiety level. In this article, two experimental classes of 8th-grade…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)
A Comparative Study of Croatian and Hungarian EFL Students
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Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Jelena; Nikolov, Marianne; Otto, Istvan – Language Teaching Research, 2008
This comparative research aims to provide insights into how Croatian and Hungarian 8th graders' proficiency in English as a foreign language (EFL) compares to one another in relation to organizational macro factors. A total of 717 14-year-old students participated in the study in two neighboring regions and towns of Croatia and Hungary examining…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Comparative Analysis