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Gan, Zhengdong; He, Jinbo; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Schumacker, Randall – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2023
While classroom feedback has been shown to be a key mediating factor in students' learning process and performance, the bulk of current research on feedback in the field of foreign language education has largely focused on how teachers respond to students' linguistic errors. Published research on how students in a foreign language context respond…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Jin, Yinxing; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This paper reports a study that investigated the dimensions underneath the construct of foreign language classroom enjoyment and explored the pattern in which these enjoyment dimensions affect foreign language achievement. To this end, 320 first language Chinese senior high school students, who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL),…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Native Language
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Zhang, Jianhua; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
This study explored the relationship between learners' perceptions of native and non-native English-speaking teachers' teaching competence and their motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Data were collected from 218 EFL learners in an intensive English programme in four universities in mainland China using two instruments:…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness, Language Teachers
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Teng, Lin Sophie; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Metacognition and Learning, 2018
Motivational regulation has long been recognized as an essential but insufficiently investigated aspect of self-regulated learning (SRL), especially in relation to learning English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writing. This study intends to fill the gap by investigating the predictive effect of motivational regulation strategies on EFL students'…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests, English (Second Language)
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Jiang, Li; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; May, Stephen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This paper reports on a classroom-based investigation into a tertiary English-medium instruction (EMI) programme in China, with a focus on subject teachers' perceptions and practices in EMI and students' motivation and needs in English learning. Given a lacuna in existing EMI research, it examined how EMI instruction was delivered by subject…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Teng, Lin Sophie; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study aimed to validate a newly-developed instrument, The Writing Strategies for Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Questionnaire, with respect to its multifaceted structure of SRL strategies in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. A total of 790 undergraduate students from 6 universities in Northeast China volunteered to be participants.…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Metacognition, Writing Strategies, English (Second Language)