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Çiftçi, Emrullah Yasin; Karaman, A. Cendel; Daloglu, Aysegül – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Due to its essential role in communication among diverse individuals and human communities, the cultivation of interculturality is among the foremost aims of educational domains. Short-term study abroad can be one way to help students develop interculturality. However, there is a lack of a clear picture regarding the multidimensional impact of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Program Evaluation, Cultural Awareness
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Bower, Kim – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Researching motivation in language learning is complex and multi-faceted. Various models of learner motivation have been proposed in the literature, but no one model supplies a complex and coherent framework for investigating a range of motivational characteristics. Building on previous models I propose such a methodological framework, based on a…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Models, Case Studies
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Houghton, Stephanie Ann – Language Learning Journal, 2013
This article reports on an action research case study conducted at a university in Japan, which explored how student identity-development can be made visible in potentially assessable ways through materials design in intercultural communicative competence (ICC)-oriented foreign language education. It suggests that identity-development can be…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Kenning, Marie-Madeleine – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Examines the languages (German, Italian, French) year-10 British students choose to study and shows how each language has fared to provide a basis for comparisons across languages. Also examines the results of interviews with students to determine the motive behind decisions to pursue or drop a language. (five references) (CK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, French, German
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Kenning, Marie-Madeleine – Language Learning Journal, 1998
Analyzes results obtained at GCSE by students involved in a joint languages diversification scheme in which they studied two languages in parallel for three years. Comparisons are made across languages, with other subjects, and with results achieved by the previous year group, which entered before diversification. Findings reveal various issues…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Broady, Elspeth – Language Learning Journal, 2005
In this article, the author critiques six articles. Five of the six articles are about motivation in language learning, an area which has seen considerable theoretical and empirical development over the last decade. The articles she reviews include: (1) Udo Jung's report on the top twelve "most prestigious FLT (foreign language teaching) journals"…
Descriptors: Incentives, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction