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Download full textOlusiji Lasekan; Margot Teresa Godoy Pena – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study, based on responses from 176 intermediate and advanced EFL learners in Chile, explores the perceptions of educational videos in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning among students from different gender groups and academic disciplines, specifically Social Sciences, Humanities, STEM, and Health Sciences. Using an experimental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Video Technology, Gender Differences
Direct linkÖz, Gülsah; Sahinkarakas, Sehnaz – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
The present study aims to investigate Turkish EFL learners' academic resilience levels. Whether gender can be a factor in the learners' academic resilience was also examined. Additionally, figuring out the correlation between learners' academic resilience and their English language achievement was within the aims of this research. To achieve this,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Resilience (Psychology)
Assessing Language Learning Strategies Employed by University English Major Students in Saudi Arabia
Alrashidi, Oqab – Cogent Education, 2022
This study sought to explore the frequency and type of language learning strategies employed by university students. It also investigated the impact of proficiency levels, gender and year of study on the use of language learning strategies. The study participants were 256 English major students enrolled in three universities in Saudi Arabia. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Li, Jing; McLellan, Ros; Forbes, Karen – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Language education has long been considered a female domain across many countries, with girls outnumbering and outperforming boys. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the nature and structure of gender stereotypes favouring girls among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. In the quantitative strand, 60 teachers from six…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Language Teachers, Gender Differences, Second Language Learning
Dawadi, Saraswati – Online Submission, 2017
This study investigated language learning strategies (LLS) used by English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Nepal. For this study, 370 undergraduate level students from a university in Nepal responded to a questionnaire. The quantitative software SPSS was used to analyse the data. Results indicated that students were moderate users of those…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
Balci, Özgül – English Language Teaching, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the language learning strategies of freshman students and their learning styles. This study is a descriptive research and employs a relational screening model. Participants of the study were 328 freshman students majoring in different fields at Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Correlation, Second Language Learning
Mitits, Lydia; Gavriilidou, Zoe – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
This study compares language learning strategy (LLS) use between Greek L2 and English FL and a possible variation in the frequency and type of LLSs employed in the two languages in order to depict the strategic profiles of the multilingual learners aged 12-15 (n = 307). It also observes the effect of gender in relation to a second vs. foreign…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Multilingualism, Learning Strategies
Heras, Arantxa; Lasagabaster, David – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The aim of this article is twofold: to assess the effectiveness of a CLIL (content and language integrated learning) module on affective factors (motivation and self-esteem), and to test the purported blurring effect of CLIL on gender differences in foreign language learning. Forty-six students in their fourth year of compulsory secondary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Course Content, Vocabulary Development, Gender Differences
Nahavandi, Naemeh; Mukundan, Jayakaran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present study aimed at understanding the language learning strategy use of Iranian EFL learners' about learning a foreign language. The main purpose of the study was to understand if there was any relationship between proficiency level, gender and extra education in language institutes and strategy use. To achieve this end, 369 engineering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Engineering Education
Liyanage, Indika; Bartlett, Brendan John – Language Learning Journal, 2012
Research on language learning strategies (LLS) has pointed to a significant association at a general level between learners' gender and their choice of LLS. To explore this generality further, we conducted a study on gender and strategy use with Sri Lankan learners (N = 886) of English as a second language (ESL) in five different learning…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Learning Strategies, Gender Differences
Su, Chia-chun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Reading comprehension plays a key role in academic success in today's classrooms. Literature Circles (LCs), a learner-centered collaborative reading activity, brings together the ideas of cooperative learning, independent reading, and reader response theory to enhance students' reading comprehension as well as their motivation toward learning…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Reading Comprehension, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Fukuchi, Naoko Tani; Sakamoto, Robin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
As learner-centred approaches are gaining popularity in many language classrooms, the affective dimensions of learners and the interaction effects of learners and teachers have become an important theme for research and assessment. This paper explores how Japanese learners of English as a foreign language evolve in two geographically distinct…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
Celik, Mehmet – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2004
Given the important role of the affective variables in the process of learning, this paper examines ways of overcoming negative effects (i.e. anxiety, boredom) of the contextual factors. Exemplifying the uses of humor through context-specific, purpose-driven jokes, it maintains that humor can be utilized to produce a resourceful, encouraging and…
Descriptors: Humor, Learning Processes, Suggestopedia, English (Second Language)
