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Li-Wei Wei – Online Submission, 2024
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is a well-documented phenomenon that can significantly affect academic performance. This study examined the extent to which Taiwanese postgraduate students experienced speaking anxiety during thesis defense presentations, along with potential gender differences and variations across postgraduate programs. It…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Anxiety, Graduate Students, Masters Theses
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Mei-Ya Liang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This article examines linguaculturally diverse university students' affective translingual practices of using emojis and languages in computer-mediated communication. Research studies have investigated the sociopragmatic uses of emojis from the perspectives of social semiotics, language socialisation, and translingual practices. This study expands…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Computer Mediated Communication, Semiotics, Socialization
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Mei-Ya Liang – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study explores multilingual international students' narratives of mobility and socialisation through online discursive spaces of interview conversations. Drawing upon an ecological approach to transnational narratives, the researcher analyzed international students' multiscalar interactions and transformations in sociospatial practices. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Lin, Shumin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article examines language practice in international higher education (HE) in non-Anglophone countries, with a focus on language choice and negotiation in engineering and science lab meetings among culturally and linguistically diverse students and professors. Analyses of 53 in-depth interviews with students and professors in a research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
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Lau, Ken; Lin, Chia-Yen; Odle, Eric – Language and Education, 2020
The orientation toward a knowledge-based economy has led to the increasing need to pursue advanced degrees to further improve one's competitiveness in society. Research on postgraduate programs has thus sparked interest from multiple perspectives, among which, generated written artifacts such as dissertations have become the center of attention.…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Beryl Chinghwa; Chern, Chiou-lan – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
This study aims to investigate whether English for Specific Purposes (ESP) reading relates to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' identity and how they relate to each other if there is a link between the two. Via purposeful sampling, an experienced Taiwanese ESP reader in her 40s was recruited and received three life-story interviews.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Reading Skills