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Teachers' Accounts of Learners' Engagement and Disaffection in the Language Classroom
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Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Anna – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The concept of learner engagement, widely researched in educational psychology, has recently gained attention of language acquisition researchers (cf. Mercer, S. and Z. Dörnyei. 2020. "Engaging Students in Contemporary Classrooms." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Mercer, S. 2019. Language learner engagement: setting the scene. In…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Psychology
The Concept of Learning Japanese: Explaining Why Successful Students of Japanese Discontinue Japanese Studies at the Transition to Tertiary Education
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Oshima, Ryoko; Harvey, Sharon – Language Learning Journal, 2017
Student attrition and falling tertiary education enrolments afflict languages education across the "inner circle" English speaking world. In the southern hemisphere, in New Zealand and Australia, Japanese has become one of the most successful languages of education. However, numbers of students are now declining. This paper examines why…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Students
Students' Attitudes to Their Experience of School Language Teaching.
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Gruneberg, Michael; Sykes, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 1994
Studies variables affecting language achievement at school by examining attitudes of 273 non-language students toward language learning in terms of enjoyment, ease of vocabulary and grammar learning, and satisfaction with teachers. Although less than half the students enjoyed their school experience, many expressed a desire to learn a foreign…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Higher Education