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Sarin Sok; Liz Bennett – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become an effective learning approach for continuing professional development (PD) and there is an increasing body of literature on MOOC learners' perspectives drawing from a range of the global contexts. However, in developing countries like Cambodia, relatively little research on this phenomenon has been…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Gundarina, Olena – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The paper discusses the findings regarding future possible selves based on research with Russian-speaking migrant pupils in English state-funded primary schools at Key Stage 2 (7-11 years old). Its aim is to explain the nature and characteristics of ideal selves of primary-level migrant children. The methodology comprises a qualitative…
Descriptors: Russian, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept
Martin Howard; Leigh Oakes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study responds to calls for more research on motivations for learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in the new era dominated by global English. In particular, it focuses on the role of societal contextual factors surrounding the status of English and the status of the LOTE as an L2/L3, as factors which may offer a more nuanced…
Descriptors: French, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ianos, Maria Adelina; Rusu, Andrei; Huguet, Àngel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In line with the increased interest in studying implicit language attitudes, this study aims to explore implicit attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish in the multicultural and multilingual context of Catalonia (Spain) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). A sample of 113 adolescents completed the IAT and a set of explicit measures of…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Language Attitudes
Heather Sparling; Peter MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Gaelic is an endangered language, but the traditional music associated with it thrives. Among individuals committed to learning Gaelic as a heritage language who also engage in traditional music-making, intense experiences shape the connection between language and music. The present study examines the connection between intensely motivating 'flow'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Music, Native Language
Xinran Wu; Karen Forbes – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
In language learner identity research, there is an underrepresentation of LOTE-as-L3 learners in instructed foreign language learning contexts. This study addresses this gap by exploring the multilingual identity profiles of Chinese high school LOTE-as-L3 learners in two school contexts and seeks to understand how the schools may influence…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Xiaoping Gao; Stuart Woodcock; Jinjin Lu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated English first language (L1) speakers' motivation for learning Chinese as a second language (L2) in Australia and the links of underlying motivational components to learner sociobiographical (e.g. gender and reasons for learning) and language learning variables (i.e. experience abroad, hours of self-study, and speaking with…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, College Students, Chinese, English
Syed Abdul Manan; Anas Hajar – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Most recent research on language learning and identity emphasizes on investing learners' capital as affordance to affirm their identities (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton, 2013). Learners' capital refers to prior knowledge, home literacies/native languages. Drawing on data from English language academies from Pakistan, this study finds a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hillamaria Pirhonen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
To educate multilingual global citizens and follow the multilingual turn in language education, universities are faced with the challenge of developing their language pedagogies. This article reports on a study conducted in the context of university language studies that take a multilingual perspective to learning languages for academic and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
Costache, Oana; Becker, Eva S.; Goetz, Thomas – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Motivational interactions during multiple language learning have been largely neglected in language motivation research. To fill this gap, we investigate longitudinal relations between Swiss German students' value beliefs in English, French, and German in upper secondary schools and whether there are differences in motivational development between…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Isabelle Udry; Raphael Berthele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Academic self-concept (ASC) is a student's self-perceived level of ability in an academic domain and a major factor involved in academic performance. We examined the importance of internal/external sources of evaluation for the structure of L2 and L3 ASCs in two groups of 5th/6th graders learning English and French in Switzerland (mean age: 12.1).…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Academic Ability, Grade 5, Grade 6
Shiran Wang; Saifon Songsiengchai; Kanon Somrang; Nadda Angsuwotai; Panjanat Vorawattanachai – World Journal of Education, 2024
This study was conducted with Zhuang and Miao students and Mandarin teachers in grades four to six in four township elementary schools in Dehou Township, Wenshan City, Yunnan Province. The purposes of this study were:1) to study the influences of the native language that affect Zhuang and Miao students when they learn Mandarin,2) to study…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Paleczek, Lisa; Seifert, Susanne; Schöfl, Martin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The current study digitalised an assessment instrument of receptive vocabulary knowledge, GraWo-KiGa, for use in Austrian kindergartens. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study looks at 85 kindergarteners in their last year (age M = 5.79 years, 51.8% male, 71.8% L1 German), to find out (a) whether the form of digital assessment employed meets…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Receptive Language, Foreign Countries, Native Language
Fukui, Haruna; Yashima, Tomoko – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Studies focused on motivation to learn languages other than English or more than 1 language simultaneously have been gaining attention in recent years. However, there are far fewer than those related to second language (L2) English learning. To fill this gap, this article explores the evolving motivation of 2 Japanese students who spent 1 academic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
Joyce, Paul; von Dietze, Hans; von Dietze, Alison; McMillan, Brian – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2021
This study investigated the issue of L1 use in the L2 classroom from the students' perspective. Specifically, the focus of this study was on the characteristics of learners who desired L1 classroom support in their L2 learning. For the purposes of the study, a convenience sample of 380 Japanese university-level EFL participants completed a series…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Native Language