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Khaled Ahmed AbdelAl Ibrahim; Yasha Rakhshani – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
In the current research, the impacts of portfolio assessment (PA) on the grit tendencies, motivation, and willingness to communicate (WTC) of Saudi Arabian EFL learners were examined. The population of this study was fifty-eight EFL learners who were assigned to two groups in order to accomplish this purpose. Following that, both groups were given…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Portfolio Assessment
Asma Almusharraf; Hassan Saleh Mahdi; Haifa Al-Nofaie; Elham Ghobain; Amal Aljasser – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The present study examines the impact of implementing video captioning and subtitles on listening comprehension with special reference to the speaker's speed. A total of 64 undergraduate Saudi EFL learners were assigned into six groups: fast speaker with full captioning, fast speaker with subtitles, fast speaker with no captioning nor subtitles,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shahzad-ul-Hassan Farooqi – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
This study examines the efficacy and motivational implications of the word-count tracking strategy as a viable teaching strategy for improving writing output among Saudi EFL undergraduates. An intensive writing program was conducted at the English Department Al-Majmaah University with two groups who were taught through two different approaches.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alamri, Hayat Rashid; Hakami, Hind Mousa – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The purpose of this causal-comparative mixed-method study was to investigate and compare Saudi EFL female students' perspectives utilizing e-dictionaries to increase vocabulary learning in the Language Department (ELD) and those in the Preparatory Year Program (PYP) at Taibah University. The participants comprised (143) fourth-year students, while…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Electronic Publishing, Dictionaries
Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The sources of knowledge have diversified and increased due to the widespread use of the Internet and smartphones. However, this diversity requires learners to know how to deal with and obtain knowledge and the extent of their credibility and usefulness. Subsequently, they must learn language learning strategies, including Memory Strategies (MSs)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Abduljalil Hazaea – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study implements a timed reading (TR) approach as a scaffolding teaching and learning method to enhance reading achievement and strategies within the Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The study adopted TR intervention in which processes of EFL reading are scaffolded with those of getting a driving license. The study employs a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hassan Saleh Mahdi; Reem Alkhammash; Anwar A. H. Al-Athwary – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Pronouncing English clusters may be challenging for Arab English learners. Technology-based strategies can be used to improve their pronunciation of English consonant clusters. This study examined how high variability phonetic training (HVPT) can be used to improve the pronunciation of consonant clusters among English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Samar Mansour Alqahtani; Hind Abdulaziz Alfadda – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
This study examines the impact of WebQuests on the vocabulary and reading skills of ESL students in Saudi Arabia's technical colleges. The primary objectives of the study are to determine whether WebQuests can improve the vocabulary and reading skills of ESL learners and to explore their perceptions regarding the use and impact of WebQuests on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Web Based Instruction
Yaseen Ali Azi; Sami Abdullah Hamdi; Mohammed Ahmad Okasha – HOW, 2024
The task of verifying credible and original information is now more complicated, especially for undergraduate students. This study uses information literacy and discourse analysis to develop English as a foreign language learners' critical reading skills while verifying information on social media. A reading test including false news was used to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Discourse Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Reading Tests
Ali, Ashraf; Khan, Raja Muhammad Ishtiaq; Alouraini, Abdullah – SAGE Open, 2023
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the transformation of educational institutions across the globe by implementing online and blended learning, which becomes an important aspect of the instruction and learning processes. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of both online and blended learning methods on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Fakieh Alrabai; Wala Algazzaz – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This study assessed the influence of a 10-week teacher emotionally supportive quasi-experimental intervention on the perceived teacher emotional support (PTES), basic psychological needs (BPNs) satisfaction, emotions of anxiety and enjoyment, and emotional engagement of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Strategies targeting the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Psychological Needs
Alfaifi, Adel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Native Arabic speakers used idiomatic expressions such as idioms, formulas, and collocations, in their daily communications. In learning Arabic as a second language (L2), effective communication requires "the ability to understand and use idioms appropriately and accurately in a variety of sociocultural contexts, in a manner like that of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abdulaziz Alarifi; Benjamin V. Tucker – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigated the role of orthographic information in the acquisition of non-native speech sounds by monolingual English listeners. Two potentially important orthographic variables were explored: Orthographic compatibility (whether the orthographic information supports or contradicts the distributional information) and orthographic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Discrimination, Cues
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
This study investigates interpreting directionality and interpreting competence of undergraduate interpreting students. It tried to answer the following questions: (i) Is there a significant difference between the beginners and advanced students' skills in Liaison interpreting from English to Arabic and Arabic to English, with Arabic as their L1…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alshammari, Reem Fuhaid – English Language Teaching, 2022
The main aim of the present study is to develop first year university students' meta-cognitive reading comprehension using inquiry-based learning strategy. Subjects of the study were 106 (53 males, 53 females) first year university students enrolled in two classrooms at colleges representing urban and sub-urban areas in Shaqra University. The…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Metacognition, Pretests Posttests