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Woore, Robert; Molway, Laura; Macaro, Ernesto – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This article offers a critical perspective on Ofsted's (2021) "Curriculum Research Review for Languages" (OCRR). Whilst the OCRR contains much that we would agree with (including its underpinning principle of drawing on research evidence to inform policy and pedagogy), we are nevertheless concerned that it could result in unintended…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Syed, Hassan; Kuzborska, Irena – Language Learning Journal, 2020
The present study was designed to explore the situational variables and their interaction determining the willingness to communicate (WTC) in English (L2) of six postgraduate business students in a university classroom in Pakistan. While much research has been undertaken to examine trait-like psychological antecedents, only a few studies have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Graduate Students, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Stroud, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This article expands upon research into task planning effects by looking at how the addition of planning prior to group discussions may positively and negatively influence performance. 24 Japanese university students performed three weekly discussions in groups of four. Prior to each discussion, they undertook either no planning, strategic…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Group Discussion, Undergraduate Students, Accuracy
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Çiftçi, Emrullah Yasin; Karaman, A. Cendel; Daloglu, Aysegül – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Due to its essential role in communication among diverse individuals and human communities, the cultivation of interculturality is among the foremost aims of educational domains. Short-term study abroad can be one way to help students develop interculturality. However, there is a lack of a clear picture regarding the multidimensional impact of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Program Evaluation, Cultural Awareness
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Morkus, Nader – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study investigated the relationship between language proficiency and negative pragmatic transfer from a first language (L1), focusing on the speech act of refusal as realised by American learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) in Egyptian Arabic. Twenty American AFL learners (10 intermediate and 10 advanced) and 2 baseline groups (10…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Osaimi, Saleh; Wedell, Martin – Language Learning Journal, 2014
Much second language acquisition research in recent decades has assumed that a learner's main purpose for learning a second language (L2) is to develop communicative competence. Consequently, many studies have focused on investigating ways in which teachers and/or the learning environment may support the development of such competence. In…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Semitic Languages, Language Proficiency