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Malihe YarAhmadi; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Traditional approaches to language assessment have been criticized for their inadequacy in taking account of language learners' potential for development. To obviate this pitfall in traditional assessment, language teachers and researchers have been paying increasing attention to dynamic assessment (DA), which is rooted in Vygotsky's (1978)…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
Xiaohan Ma – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This research explores the use of the Quizlet application in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, employing a mixed methods approach. The participants of this study were 60 international students who majored in Chinese at a university in China. The students were divided into two groups and received instruction through traditional teaching…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Learner Engagement, Influence of Technology, Tests
Lin, Yu-Ju; Wang, Hung-chun – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study was conducted to explore the effects of an augmented-reality (AR) creative project on English L2 learners' perceptions of creativity, as well as to investigate how to stimulate students' learning motivation. The AR project was developed and integrated into the course syllabus of a university English class, and 39 Taiwanese freshmen…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Al-Shammari, Abbas H.; Sahiouni, Ahmad Ali – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This research investigated the consequence of textual enhancement and input processing on developing EFL university learners' linguistic development. It aimed to examine the extent to which these two techniques are useful for learning and teaching the passive voice. A total of 60 in the non-credit remedial foundation course (090) students were…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Xue, Jin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Previous research is seldom addressed to biliteracy relationship for adult learners in the foreign language context. The present study was a repeated-measure design in a 9-month longitudinal study. One hundred and thirty-nine college students (ages 19-21 years) who learned English as a foreign language were measured twice at pre- and post-tests on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese, Literacy
Na Liu; Jeferd Saong – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
The study examined the use of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in assessing Chinese as a second language and the challenges faced by teachers in the Chinese Language Scholarship (CLS) program. The Concurrent Triangulation Mixed Method Research was used in the study in which qualitative and quantitative data are collected simultaneously,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Namaziandost, Ehsan; Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket; Mahdizadeh Khodayari, Shabnam; Ziafar, Meisam; Alekasir, Samir; Gilakjani, Abbas Pourhosein; Mohammed Sawalmeh, Murad Hassan – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the flipped classroom model on students' self-efficacy and the difference in self-efficacy between males and females using this model. In order to accomplish this, 66 advanced participants were selected from a private English language institute. They were divided into two equal groups, namely…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Using Processing Instruction to Teach English Reflexives to ESL Learners: A Computer Delivered Study
Rong Liu – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
The study examines the effects of using computer delivered Processing Instruction (PI) to teach English reflexives. Thirty intermediate ESL learners participated in the pretest-treatment-posttest study. Participants received the input-based PI activities. Gains were assessed by traditional offline tasks such as sentence interpretation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
Durongbhandhu, Nunpaporn; Suwanasilp, Danuchawat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Language Instruction, especially teaching and learning English for specific purposes (ESP) with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has grown in popularity for over a decade. Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) is one of the appropriate teaching approaches used to make CALL more effective. This study attempts to develop, implement, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Surwanti, Dita; Hikmah, Isti'anatul – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2019
One of the ironic facts that existed in our society is functional illiteracy. It does not mean that people cannot read or write. People know how to read and write but are unable to understand the meaning of a text they read. Thus, this research was held to answer the question of "How can students' awareness of functional literacy be…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Functional Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests
Karkour, Islam – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
This paper investigates intercultural sensitivity as an expected outcome of Arabic as a foreign language class in higher education. The study uses a pretest and posttest design to measure the change in 26 students' intercultural sensitivity after a semester of language study. The participants studied elementary level Arabic as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semitic Languages
Brown, Dale – TESOL Journal, 2021
This article reports on a study that combined two strands of research: studies of incidental vocabulary learning and studies of the classroom lexical environment (in which vocabulary exposure is measured and the potential for learning estimated). The study looked at the orthographic lexical environment in a language classroom over a semester and…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shang, Hui-Fang – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2021
Blended learning is an instructional approach that combines traditional face-to-face learning and online learning. There have been debates on the effectiveness and practicality of blended learning use in higher education, yet studies that specifically examine blended discussions to support EFL learning and teaching are still scarce. Thus, this…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Student Motivation, English (Second Language)
Zeynep Cetin Koroglu; Fatma Kimsesiz – Research in Pedagogy, 2023
Technology is an indispensable part of our daily lives nowadays and it has a huge impact on educational fields. The case is valid for English language education in which language teachers teach digital natives with a variety of developing technological tools, software, and aids. Visual aids are also transforming with the developing technology and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Instructional Materials, Grammar, English (Second Language)
Au, Hong Yu Connie; Bardakçi, Mehmet – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
This quasi-experimental study aims to determine EFL learners' speaking self-efficacy levels and to examine the changes in oral performances after receiving feedback in three module courses. The relationship between speaking self-efficacy and oral performances after receiving feedback was also studied. Quantitative method was applied in this study.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language