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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
Alaa Alnajashi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
Engagement with online media among learners is closely linked to language proficiency and cultural comprehension, offering a platform for enhancing English language skills. This has given rise to the field of online informal learning of English (OILE), with numerous studies exploring learners' habits in this domain and indicating positive impacts…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Learning Motivation, Electronic Learning
Danya Shaalan – SAGE Open, 2024
The second-language (L2) Motivational Self System (L2MSS) proposed by Zoltán Dörnyei described how L2 learners are motivated through envisioning their ideal future L2 self. The L2MSS framework for studying L2 motivation has had mixed results. The aim of this study was to evaluate measuring future selves as L2 motivators consistent with the L2MSS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Traits, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2021
The term 'struggling language learner' is one that is usually ascribed to students who are trying, without much success to master the English language in an academic setting. As a case study, this study was carried out to gain insights into the 'struggles' of the struggling English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Ten students were selected…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Problems
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
Fakieh Alrabai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study utilises a holistic approach of positive psychology (PP) in the second language acquisition (SLA) domain to test a model of willingness to communicate in English language (L2WTC) among 328 Saudi learners. The model examines how potential connections among learners' negative emotions (anxiety and boredom), positive emotions (enjoyment…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Attitudes, Student Participation, English (Second Language)
Majid Elahi Shirvan; Abdullah Alamer – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the recent attention to language-domain-specific grit in the field of SLA and the scarcity of research on the antecedents of L2 grit, we proposed a model that links L2 learners' basic psychological needs (BPN) (i.e. autonomy, competence, and relatedness), L2 grit (i.e. perseverance of effort (PE) and consistency of interest (CI)), and L2…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Needs, Academic Persistence, Personality Traits
Alqahtani, Ali Falah – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper is a report on the study of the relationship between foreign/second language (L2) motivation and vocabulary knowledge. The population of the study is the cadets of a military academy in Saudi Arabia who study English as a foreign language. The total number of participants is 195 Saudis. The author uses the L2 Motivational Self System to…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Alqahtani, Asma – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates motivation types of Saudi and Chines EFL learners and gender role differences. I selected these two groups because they constituted the most dominant groups that study English abroad. The descriptive and correlational approaches were used to examine the participants' motivation by collecting the data through questionnaire…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
Alsamadani, Hashem A. – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This quasi-experimental study investigates the effects of dictogloss strategy on Saudi EFL writing skills and attitudes towards learning English. It also measures students' attitudes towards learning English using dictogloss activities. The study opens doors for teachers of EFL towards new teaching methods and techniques for writing skills and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Suliman, Wijdan Mohieldeen Mohammed – Journal of English Teaching, 2022
The present paper focuses on pinpointing the implications of Oral presentation for fostering learners' autonomy by employing experimental and qualitative research methods. The study investigated a group of participants comprised of 15 students majoring in English as A foreign language (EFL) at Qassim University. The key data was collected from the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Almegren, Rehan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This study examined Saudis' motivation to learn English after the announcement of the Saudi Vision 2030, a strategic social and economic development plan. The study participants included 175 male and female Saudi citizens aged 18-55 years old. Participants answered a Likert-style survey consisting of 27 statements. Their answers were analyzed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Gender Differences
Daif-Allah, Ayman Sabry; Aljumah, Fahad Hamad – English Language Teaching, 2020
Evidence shows that learners' performance is largely influenced by their cognitive beliefs about learning. The main purpose of the present study is to identifying the cognitive beliefs of Saudi English Language major students in order to get a deeper insight into their inner thoughts about studying literature and to find out the effect of gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Almusharraf, Norah; Bailey, Daniel R. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Mapping multivariate influence of learner characteristics on behavior highlights models in learning. To this end, we explored the relationships between strategies and learning characteristics and used regression analysis to understand how learner characteristics predict learning strategy choices. A cross-sectional research design with 175 students…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Case Studies
Abeer Shujaa Alharbi – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This research investigates impediments to the successful implementation of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. Going beyond typical discussions on teacher training and curriculum development, the study explores entrenched resistance stemming from traditional teaching methods among teachers…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction