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Satoshi Yamagata; Tatsuya Nakata; James Rogers – TESOL Journal, 2024
Knowledge of collocations facilitates second language (L2) learning by enhancing accuracy and fluency. However, acquiring L2 collocations is often challenging for learners. One factor contributing to this difficulty is incongruency between first and second languages (e.g., "draw distinctions" in English corresponds to do…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Nouns
Muhammad Nawaz; Malini Ganapathy; Sadaf Manzoor; Tess Ezzy; Shahzad Ul Hassan Farooqi – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2025
Purpose: The integration of mobile technology in ESL/EFL contexts has garnered significant attention from contemporary researchers, teachers, and learners due to the advancements in technology, dynamic features, and multimodal applications. With this growing interest, there is a need to synthesize the existing literature and identify current…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Takayuki Nishihara – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study explored the diverse responses of Japanese university-level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to lexically easy short poems. These participants had attained a high level of English proficiency and were able to grasp the literal meaning of the poems. The investigation employed confidence level and reading time as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Soyhan Egitim – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
The perception of the teacher as the authority in the classroom is deep-rooted in education yet this notion seems to contradict the fundamental values of democratic education. Schools grant teachers an abundance of authority and decision-making power. The pedagogical implications of how teachers use this power in the classroom are not…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Leadership, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Blake Turnbull – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Although the emergent bilingual status of foreign language (FL) students is often overlooked, that is not to say that students do not, on some level of consciousness, experience changes in their identity as a result of their emergent bilingualism. The continuous process of identity (re)negotiation, that is, the reorganising of one's subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Bilingual Students, Self Concept
Justin Harris – Language Awareness, 2025
This paper describes a mixed methods study of Japanese first-year tertiary learners' attitudes to English language learning models. It outlines the results from a survey comprised of a verbal guise test (measuring respondents' attitudes to both linguistic and personality features) and vocabulary elicitation, which was administered to 87…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
Lachlan Jackson; Belinda Kennett – ELT Journal, 2025
This paper reports on part of a larger study of critical language pedagogy (CLP) in university EFL classes in Japan. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews, we examined the philosophies, approaches, pedagogic choices, and adaptations of nineteen self-identifying critical pedagogues. Here, we focus on the theme of student receptivity to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, College Faculty, English (Second Language)
Derek N. Canning; Stuart McLean; Joseph P. Vitta – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Recent studies have shown that the frequency effect, although long used as a guide to word difficulty, fails to explain all variance in learner word knowledge. As such, a "more than frequency" conclusion has been offered to explain how lexical sophistication accounts for word difficulty. This study presents a multiple regression model of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Vocabulary, College Students, Incidence
Joshua Matthews; Ahmed Masrai; Kriss Lange; Stuart McLean; Emad A. Alghamdi; Young Ae Kim; Yukie Shinhara; Saori Tada – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Aural lexical knowledge (ALK) is crucial for second language (L2) listening. Despite its importance, there is scant research that has validly explored the relationship between ALK and L2 listening across different English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. In an effort to broaden this research base, the current study closely replicates a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Atre, Pallavi – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2023
This qualitative comparative case study investigates the links between parental motivations and young (aged 4-12) heritage language learners' heritage language school attendance. The study aimed to understand parental motivations, drawing on the instrumental and integrative motivation framework. The study addresses two research questions: 1) Why…
Descriptors: Native Language, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Christopher Nicklin; Allie Patterson; Stuart McLean – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption exists that even low-proficiency learners will find them unproblematic, yet research suggests this assumption might be misplaced. The present study involved two self-paced…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency
Luke K. Fryer; Alex Shum; H. Nicholas Bovee; Kaori Nakao; Shuichi Ozono – Educational Psychology, 2024
The broad relationship between students' self-efficacy and interest has been highlighted for decades. This, along with the inherently developmental nature of learning, calls for a more thorough examination of the way fluctuations in students' self-efficacy influence their interest in learning within a single course over an academic year and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Megala Rajendran; Moniza Ray; Ajit Ilangovan; Vinoth Kumar Chokkalingam; Anand Binod Singh – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Digital games are increasingly used in education to boost engagement and reduce stress. Digital game-based learning (DGBL) has improved the learning experience. However, further investigation is needed to determine the specific impact of commercially available, off-the-shelf (COTS) video games on English language skills. This study provides a…
Descriptors: Video Games, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Skills
Takimoto, Masahiro – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Japanese EFL learners often fail to identify and categorise the different degrees of certainty associated with CERTAIN, PROBABLE, and POSSIBLE items. This computer-mediated study evaluated the relative effects of animated versus static illustrations on stimulating the spatial concept of distance for the acquisition of this knowledge.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ni Luh Putu Ning Septyarini Putri Astawa; Made Hery Santosa; Luh Putu Artini; Putu Kerti Nitiasih – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Involving the global issues as listed in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education is necessarily done in the education process, especially in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. Exposure to global issues is known to improve students' understanding, awareness, and ability to solve urgent issues faced by global society. This paper…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Sustainable Development, Global Approach