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Hamed Ghaemi; Zahra Khorsand – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study delves into writing scores in both tests, aiming to uncover the reasons behind score differences. Through comprehensive comparative analysis, this research explores scoring patterns, criteria, and score distributions in IELTS and PTE writing sections. It investigates sources of score variation, including task design, rating criteria,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scores, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Anna-Lena Stroh; Krista E. Overvliet; Björn Zierul; Frank Rösler; Brigitte Röder – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Previous studies have suggested that deafness could lead to deficits in motor skills and other body-related abilities. However, the literature regarding motor skills in deaf adults is scarce and existing studies often included participants with heterogeneous language backgrounds and deafness etiologies, thus making it difficult to delineate the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Hearing (Physiology)
Lucian Rothe – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Grounded in self-based and community-oriented concepts of motivation research into learning world languages, this study investigated stereotypes about native-speaker and non-native-speaker teachers of German that 110 novice learners of French, German, Russian, and Spanish had encountered. It furthermore analyzed how participants rated the accuracy…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, German, Stereotypes, Native Speakers
Yanping Geng; Reem Alshahrani; Hana Mohammed Mujlid – European Journal of Education, 2025
The Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) was employed to evaluate and rank language-learning applications based on criteria such as engagement, interactivity, feedback, content quality and usability. A pairwise comparison matrix was constructed, fuzzy logic was applied to convert qualitative judgements into numerical values, and these values…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Social Media, Handheld Devices, Computer Software
Rodica Frimu; Bernard Ibrahim Issa – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This study compares learner perceptions in a synchronous online versus face-to-face (F2F) learning context about four principles of communicative language teaching (CLT): promoting collaborative learning, using comprehensible input, considering affective factors, and providing corrective feedback. Data were obtained via online surveys from…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Alexandra S. Dylman; Ingrid Zakrisson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Studies have found that bilinguals respond differently to personality measures in their two languages, indicating that bilinguals change their personality as they switch between their two languages and/or cultures. Across two experiments, we attempted to investigate the effect of language and culture separately on how bilingual speakers rate…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Swedish, Bilingualism, Personality Traits
Phillip Hamrick; Christopher A. Was; Yin Zhang – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that individual differences in declarative memory may be an important predictor of second language (L2) abilities. However, the evidence comes from studies using different declarative memory tasks that vary in their reliance on verbal abilities and task demands, which preclude estimating the size of the…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction
Sedigheh Karimpour; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – European Journal of Education, 2025
As an alternative to conventional instruction and evaluation methods, dynamic assessment aims to promote language learning by utilising an interactive approach. As a subset of dynamic assessment, the interventionist approach to dynamic assessment focuses on mediation from implicit to explicit. In spite of its central role in language learning and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Verbs, Short Term Memory, Comparative Analysis
Ehsan Rassaei – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The present meta-analysis investigated the effects of recasts along with a number of moderating variables on L2 development by meta-analysing the results of 24 primary studies. The findings revealed an overall medium effect size for the effectiveness of recasts (g = 0.70, 95% CI = 0.48-0.93). Furthermore, the findings indicated that recasts are…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Jui-Teng Li; Fuhui Tong; Beverly J. Irby; Rafael Lara-Alecio; Hector Rivera – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This meta-analysis includes experimental and quasi-experimental studies of reading interventions for English learners (ELs) coupled with four specific instructional strategies. The purposes of this meta-analysis were two-fold: (1) to identify the effects of the four instructional strategies (i.e. scaffolding, graphic organizers, interactive read…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yen-Jung Chen; Liwei Hsu; Shao-wei Lu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
It is well known that teachers' feedback plays an important role in students' learning, as it enhances learners' cognitive development; yet there has been little research on how positive feedback given in the form of emojis works in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) courses. In this study, an experiment was designed to clarify how English…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response)
Junming Chen; Martin Howard – Language Learning, 2024
Exploring the underinvestigated area of instruction during study abroad, this article offers a quantitative study of linguistic development among second language university learners of Chinese during a semester in China. A comparison is made between learners following task-based language teaching and a comparison group following a traditional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Juana María Anguita-Acero; Oscar Navarro-Martinez; Lauren Rebecca Jordan – European Journal of Education, 2024
At present, developmental dyslexia is classified as a specific language disorder recognised by inclusive educational laws in Spain and the United Kingdom. Phonological correspondence is very different in Spanish and in English, and the difficulties they entail for native speakers are also different. The predominance of English worldwide has led to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Bilingual Education
Arailym Sarbalina; Zharkynbike Suleimenova; Kunipa Ashinova; Zhaidarkul Belassarova; Balkiya Kassym; Aiman Koblanova – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study aims to analyze the factors influencing the typology of Turkic words to examine the specifics of the way students learn Turkic languages in higher education institutions. A hypotheticdeductive, survey, and comparative method was used for the study. Results showed that the learners have trouble constructing oral discourse and do not…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Turkic Languages
Ronald R. Kelly; Gerald P. Berent; Erin Finton; Tanya Schueler-Choukairi; Stanley Van Horn; Zhong Chen; Kimberly Persky; Susan Post Rizzo; Kathryn L. Schmitz – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
College-level deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students and hearing students of English as a Second Language (L2) along with hearing native speakers (NS) of English were assessed in their knowledge of English resultative and depictive sentences. In "Kevin wiped the table clean," the resultative phrase "clean" indicates that the…
Descriptors: Deafness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hard of Hearing