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Thomas Rowley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language ideologies can powerfully shape language learner perceptions and progress. This qualitative study investigated and reports findings based on analysis of interviews with 14 participants who self-identify as advanced users of Spanish. While dominant language ideologies in the U.S. often undermine learners reaching high levels of language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Esmat Shamsi; Hossein Bozorgian – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Multimedia is vastly used as authentic and available input in second and foreign-language contexts. To deal with the difficulties and complexities of comprehending these authentic materials, collaborative learning through metacognitive instruction helps develop learners' listening comprehension. The present study has mainly explored the role of…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
Justin Harris – Language Awareness, 2025
This paper describes a mixed methods study of Japanese first-year tertiary learners' attitudes to English language learning models. It outlines the results from a survey comprised of a verbal guise test (measuring respondents' attitudes to both linguistic and personality features) and vocabulary elicitation, which was administered to 87…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
Shuhou Yuan – SAGE Open, 2025
Conducting a survey research on demotivating factors in business English majors can enrich the theoretical research findings on demotivation and meanwhile help to explore effective methods to enhance the students' learning motivation. This study explores the construct of demotivating factors in business English majors in a Chinese university, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
Ines A. Martin; Lieselotte Sippel – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study investigated the relationship between learner beliefs about peer feedback and development of second language (L2) pronunciation skills after peer feedback on pronunciation had been used in the classroom. Seventy-four first-year learners of German were assigned to a peer feedback provider group, a peer feedback receiver group, and a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Second Language Learning
Jie Zhang – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Chinese vocabulary is characterized by compound words composed of monosyllabic morphemes. Compounds sharing a common lexeme often exhibit polysemous meanings, forming a cognitive semantic network. Systematic instruction on these high-frequency compounds can help learners access their meanings and underlying structure, making learning more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Verbs, Vocabulary, Schemata (Cognition)
Lu-Geng Sun; Jirada Wudthayagorn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study investigated the beliefs, attitudes, and motivation of Thai and Chinese undergraduate students in relation to English language learning. Utilizing a mixed-method, explanatory sequential design, it aims to provide a better understanding of the three variables mentioned above. The quantitative data analysis showed disparities between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Patcharin Satchayad; Sasima Charubusp – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2023
Collocational competence is gaining more attention in the field of second language acquisition as it indicates a higher level of target language proficiency. However, Thai university students have been reported as obtaining a low degree of collocational competence which affects productive second language writing (Boonyarattanasoonthorn et al.,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Blended Learning, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Emirhan Bingöl; Adnan Tasgin; Savas Yesilyurt – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
The use of technological devices, especially mobile devices, in language learning has increased the number of studies in this field. In this regard, it is essential to identify students' attitudes towards mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). Therefore, the present study aimed to translate, adapt, and validate Gönülal's (2019) attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Student Attitudes, Cultural Relevance
Mark Feng Teng – TESL-EJ, 2024
The present study, based on a cross-lagged panel design, was to examine the directionality of the relationships between anxiety, self-efficacy, and motivation in the context of online English learning. A total of 420 university students in China completed self-efficacy belief, motivation, and anxiety measures twice, eight months apart. The…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Online Courses
Yan Huang; Azirah Hashim – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This mixed-methods study investigated Chinese tertiary-level students' perceptions of different English accents existing in mainland China. Also examined were their perception changes and factors that contributed to their perception changes. An electronic questionnaire survey was employed to investigate the general trend and the possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Postsecondary Education
Alireza Maleki – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
The evaluation of students in online education poses a notable challenge, primarily due to the potential violation of academic integrity caused by various forms of cheating during online examinations. This study aims to explore the perspectives of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners on the reasons for online exam cheating. The study was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Ju Seong Lee; Nga Man Yeung; Mary Beth Osburn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build theory, this study investigates how Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE; consisting of "teacher appreciation, personal enjoyment," and "social enjoyment") mediates the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and EFL secondary students' willingness to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lucian Rothe – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Grounded in self-based and community-oriented concepts of motivation research into learning world languages, this study investigated stereotypes about native-speaker and non-native-speaker teachers of German that 110 novice learners of French, German, Russian, and Spanish had encountered. It furthermore analyzed how participants rated the accuracy…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, German, Stereotypes, Native Speakers
Ana Elizabeth Acuña-González; Claudio Heraldo Díaz-Larenas – HOW, 2025
Conducted in a French private school in Chile, this action research study aims to explore the contribution of video-based listening activities from the ESL video website in supporting the listening comprehension skills for specific information of a group of 18 fifth graders. The results of a pre- and post-intervention test used to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Listening Comprehension, Video Technology