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Bai, Barry; Wang, Jing – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Self-regulated reading-to-write (R2W) can be portrayed as learners' proactive learning of useful elements (e.g. content, rhetorical features, and conventions) from reading by using strategies, which is an effective mechanism connecting reading and writing, to improve their writing competence. In the present study, six major types of self-regulated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Writing Relationship, Writing Tests, Foreign Countries
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Kormos, Judit; Préfontaine, Yvonne – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present mixed-methods study examined the role of learner appraisals of speech tasks in second language (L2) French fluency. Forty adult learners in a Canadian immersion program participated in the study that compared four sources of data: (1) objectively measured utterance fluency in participants' performances of three narrative tasks…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Freiermuth, Mark R.; Huang, Hsin-chou – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This study examines the motivation of 20 Japanese students of English as a foreign language (EFL) who chatted electronically with 19 Taiwanese EFL students using online synchronous chat software. In particular, we were interested in four factors that affect task-based motivation: the willingness to communicate, task attractiveness, task…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Interaction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)