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Nesrin Hark Söylemez – SAGE Open, 2025
The aim of this study is to examine the intercultural sensitivity levels of teacher candidates using CART analysis and to develop a predictive model using machine learning algorithms. Additionally, this study provides a framework for understanding the relationship between internet usage and intercultural sensitivity. The participants comprised 416…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Awareness, Gender Differences
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Jing Chen; Yi Jiang – SAGE Open, 2025
Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Li, Zhan; Xu, Yueting – SAGE Open, 2020
In light of the growing agreement on the critical impact that materials can have on teaching and learning, classroom-based research on materials use in natural educational contexts has become increasingly urgent. This study aims to explore language teachers' use of instructional materials in classroom settings. Drawing on the analysis of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Bohua; Li, Degao; Cao, Xuping – SAGE Open, 2016
The revised hierarchical model seems different from the distributed conceptual feature model in predicting how unbalanced bilinguals would be aware of semantic relations between words for taxonomic categories of basic level (exemplar words) and words for those of superordinate level (category names) in L2. We did a series of four experiments to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Bilingualism, Semantics