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Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2025
Learners' English proficiency can be shaped by social environments, motivational factors, and emotions. According to situated expectancy-value theory, students' expectations of success and subjective task values (STVs) influence academic performance. Achievement emotions, which refer to emotions directly related to learning activities or outcomes,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shao-Ting Alan Hung; Wan-Ju Chen; Shu-Yun Chien – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
English speaking has been seen as a challenge for many English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, since they have limited chances to practice English-speaking skills. Therefore, it is essential to provide learners with adequate English-speaking contexts. To address this issue, this study integrated virtual reality (VR) into English speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Business Communication, Computer Simulation, Speech Skills
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Wang, Mei-jung – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
The effective and confident integration of information communication technology (ICT) tools and programs can be frustrating. Hence, providing emotional support for teachers who are willing to adopt ICT in language instruction is an issue worthy of attention. In order to promote ICT-supported language instruction, this study aims to identify the…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs
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Chen, Yi-chen; Lai, Huei-ling – Language Awareness, 2012
Most studies about figurative language learning focus on metaphor rather than metonymy; however, the interactions of metonymy and metaphor are so intricate that the boundary forms not a dichotomy but a continuum. Such a continuum and its influences on figurative language learning have not been studied in depth. The present study investigates EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2008
At the beginning of the second millennium, many university students in Taiwan that are enrolled in Freshman English are still being taught with teacher-centered methods. This study, which was inspired by the author's studies and research in the theoretical arguments of the Natural Approach and Psychological Method put forth by American educator…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association, Rockville, MD. – 1997
The papers from this conference are presented in three parts. Part 1 includes the panel sessions. Section 1 of part 1, "Trends, Policies, and Resources in Education," includes the following papers: "Continuing Higher Education and the Asian-American Perspective" (L.L. Hsu); "New Directions for Education: Minister Jin Wu's…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Child Health, Children