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Tendai Charles, Editor; Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, Editor – English Language Education, 2024
This edited volume provides a comprehensive and detailed insight into the Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESOL) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It describes a variety of challenges that native speakers of Arabic face when learning the English language and presents contemporary teaching strategies for supporting them. The book…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Wu Zhangli; Wang Xuewen; Lilliati Ismail; Norhakimah Khaiessa Ahmad; Omer HassanAli Mahfoodh – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined the challenges of English learning encountered by Chinese international students in a Malaysian university, as well as the contributing factors and strategies students employ to cope with these challenges. A total of 60 Chinese international students (51.7% male and 48.3% female) participated in this study, with an average stay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Study Abroad
Lihong Ma; Yuhong Jiao; Leifeng Xiao; Jian Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examined the motivation level of struggling English learners in China and explored the link between motivation and their English achievement. Furthermore, this research dug into the moderation effect of teacher-student relationships on this link based on attachment theory and self-determination theory. Struggling students (n = 14,531)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, English (Second Language)
Baimyrza, Ainur A. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The main indicator of the priority directions of the state language policy is state language development programs. State language development programs directly affect the identification and formation of linguistic identity, especially the linguistic identity of youth. This article discusses the impact of state programs on the development of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Programs, Language Planning, Presidents
Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2021
The term 'struggling language learner' is one that is usually ascribed to students who are trying, without much success to master the English language in an academic setting. As a case study, this study was carried out to gain insights into the 'struggles' of the struggling English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Ten students were selected…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Problems
Kottairaj, A.; Revathi, M. Sanmuga; Babu, R. Udhaya Mohan – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2020
The investigator establishes that Knowledge of English is unconditionally necessary if one wants to come up in life. This is more so in the opinion of the circumstance that the advanced countries have opened their doors for recruiting technically qualified people from the third world countries. A language is for correspondence. An individual…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
Tabane, Ramodungoane; Chauke, Margaret – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Educators are one of the stakeholders in the education system working to ensure learner success. According to the "Minimum Requirements For Teacher Education Qualifications," educators must fulfil 7 roles in their quest to impart education. In the study reported on her, we investigated Grade 6 educators' knowledge and use of mediation as…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nazari, Mostafa – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Despite the accumulating body of knowledge on action research, the scope of research on teacher identity construction in action research is still limited. This study relied on the concept of identities-in-practice and examined four second language (L2) teachers' identity construction across the plan, act, observe, and reflect stages of action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Suryani, Ita; Suarnajaya, I. Wayan; Pratiwi, Ni Putu Astiti – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
This study had purposes of exploring the factors inhibiting the students in speaking English and knowing teacher's perception toward the factors inhibiting the students in speaking English as a foreign language. It was done to overcome students' problems in learning the target language and solve students' problems in learning to speak. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Lyngsnes, Kitt Margaret; Skjelvåg, Siv Kristin – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty. A The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of young people with dyslexia in secondary school in a Norwegian context and provide insight that might be used to support the students. The research question for the study is as follows: What experiences do dyslectic students have in secondary…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Secondary School Students, Coping, Foreign Countries
Davis, Ernest Kofi; Ntow, Forster D.; Beccles, Christopher – SAGE Open, 2022
The study examined the factors that influence the performance of students in selected public junior high schools in Ghana using English Language, Mathematics and Science as cases and also to determine whether these observed performances support the continued implementation of the national policy on progression. In all, 98 teachers and 982 Junior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Chernus, Natalya; Sivkov, Andrey; Savina, Tamira; Sivkov, Sergey; Zolotovitskaya, Alexandra – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The eclectic method allows teachers and students to easily adapt to learning needs so that learning goals or objectives can be achieved. The purpose of this article was to prove the positive impact of using the eclectic method on students' foreign language learning by comparing it to the traditional approach to teaching. This study proposed to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chand, Gambhir Bahadur – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
Speaking is regarded as an indicator of language proficiency in general. It is believed that a learner who can speak a particular language fluently is regarded as a proficient learner of that language. In the context of Nepal, the English language is taken as a foreign language and taught from elementary level to university level as a compulsory…
Descriptors: Barriers, Undergraduate Students, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Hong, Jon-Chao; Lin, Chien-hung; Tsai, Ya-hsun; Tai, Kai-Hsin – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study explores the relationship between the experience of confusion and the outcomes of Chinese character learning by learners of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL). Based on the claim that impasses triggering confusion can lead to deeper learning of conceptually difficult material, the study employed three impasse-driven tasks. The tasks…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
English spelling has always been described by many language researchers and teachers as a daunting task especially for learners whose first language is not English. This monograph presents the report of an investigation on the use of spelling, which includes the determining factor of grammar in the teaching of English, in it we will develop a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

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