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Zhouhan Jin; Stuart Webb – Language Teaching Research, 2025
There has been little research investigating the effects of notetaking on foreign language (FL) learning, and no studies have examined how it affects vocabulary learning. The present study investigated the vocabulary written in notes of 86 students after they had listened to a teacher in an English as a foreign language (EFL) class. The results…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Notetaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jean-Marc Dewaele; Kazuya Saito; Florentina Halimi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners of English, German, French and Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course of one semester by three teacher behaviours: frequency of using the foreign language (FL) in class,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
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Shiping Duan; Zhiliang Shi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigates the use of formulaic sequences (FS) in academic writings of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language across different levels of studies at a public university in China. Frequency-based formulas were retrieved from a corpus of student academic texts written at five time points between Year 1 and Year 3. The…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Ju Seong; Lee, Kilryoung; Chen Hsieh, Jun – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study examined Korean (n = 143) and Taiwanese (n = 261) EFL students' willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) in in-class, out-of-class, and digital settings. Follow-up interviews (n = 20) were also conducted to identify factors that might have influenced their L2 WTC. Results showed that Korean and Taiwanese participants…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Scott Aubrey; Andrew Philpott – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examined the impact of collaborative pre-task strategic planning followed by rehearsal on the quantity and novelty of content used in task performances when strategic planning is performed in different language conditions in an online classroom. Forty Japanese university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) from two intact…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Yachao Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Translingual pedagogies have been proposed and implemented to respond to the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in today's classrooms. However, the findings of translingual pedagogies on English as an additional language (EAL) writing vary from facilitating to undermining teaching and learning. To understand the empirical landscape of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Atsushi Iida – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This qualitative, case-study research explores the English language learning history of a Japanese pre-service teacher by analysing five English-language poems and a self-reflective essay regarding her experiences of learning the target language. The methodology chosen in this study was a poetic inquiry through which the investigator reconstructed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning
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Jinfen Xu; Yumei Fan – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study is aimed to identify the effects of task complexity on first language (L1) use and the functions it may serve when two groups of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) work on collaborative tasks. Twenty-four pairs of Chinese EFL learners from two universities were assigned to a lower-proficiency and a higher-proficiency group,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level
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Qian Du; Ying Liu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
We examined how a group of Chinese undergraduate students understood paraphrasing and source use conventions for research paper writing in English. Prior scholarship has generated valuable insights about novice second language (L2) writers' unconventional source use practices, but little is known about how these writers interpret and understand…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Hao-Zhang Xiao – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article discusses, from a sociocognitive perspective, the integration of usage-based linguistics (UBL) models in favor of conversation analysis (CA) for second language acquisition (SLA). On this basis, it presents a pedagogical approach, viz. role-based interaction analysis (RBIA) for foreign language learning (FLL), by scaffolding, tracking…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Nathaniel Carney – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The current study investigated 29 first-year Japanese university students' usage of an online vocabulary notebook that automatically searched eight different word and phrase lists to provide students with reference information about their self-selected vocabulary. Over the course of a 14-week period, participants read English books and articles…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Katalin Fenyvesi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study explores what young Danish learners found anxiety-provoking or difficult in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Participants (n = 32) were early and later starters (ages 8 years vs. 10 years) at two primary schools where children were not assessed in English. The qualitative inquiry aimed to examine what differences…
Descriptors: Grade 9, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola; Raúl Azpilicueta-Martínez – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Motivation to learn languages strongly correlates with language achievement, and the school context has a great influence on the motivation of young learners (YLs). A key rationale for the implementation of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) programs, therefore, was pupil motivation. Very few studies have measured motivation in this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
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Gallagher, Fiona; Geraghty, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This article examines mono- and bi/multilingual practices on the University of Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) course. This course is generally considered to be one of the most popular and widely-recognized initial teacher education programmes in English language teaching worldwide. The article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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