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Daniel Bailey; Norah Almusharraf; Frank Bennett – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Normative grading compounded with socio-educational conditions in East Asian countries amplifies the effect competition beliefs have on learning outcomes. Competition beliefs may be especially influential in videoconference courses since some students feel reluctant to interrupt the instructor, avoid talking over others, or dominate the class…
Descriptors: Grading, Outcomes of Education, Competition, Videoconferencing
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Akbar, Rahima; Al-Gharabally, Nada – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Praising is considered to have a positive effect on learners' motivations. Yet, what to praise and how to praise is an issue of controversy. The present study looks at the effect of praising ESL learners' writing efforts in English as opposed to evaluating their writing abilities in order to test Dweck (2007) theory of praising intelligence or…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Zhan, Ying – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Continuous assessment (CA) is believed to have great potential for improving learning in higher education. Students' beliefs about CA are a determining force for optimising CA's formative potential. This study explored 27 Chinese undergraduates' beliefs about CA functions in their college English course through individual semi-structured…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Formative Evaluation, College English, Learning Motivation
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Rahim, Normaliza Abd; Adzharuddin, Nor Azura – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
The study focuses on the use of short story via phone application among second language learners. The samples of the study consist of 21 subjects from two classes of Malay language. The subjects were given a story entitled "The Fox" from the phone application. The subjects were to watch the story for three weeks. Then, the subjects…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Telecommunications
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Blow, David; Myers, Helen – Language Learning Journal, 2022
In the high-stakes accountability English educational system, decisions made by government and agencies about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment drive school planning and actions. This paper analyses the drivers for the recent change to French German and Spanish GCSEs and highlights particular areas of the new specification which may damage the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Crowell, Michael L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The 21st century perception of students and stakeholders (parents, teachers, administrators, and support staff, etc.) within the realm of world language study in a Midwestern, suburban school district varied sometime subtly and sometimes greatly. No particular study had been done to indicate what inspired students to enroll in world language,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Stewart, Elizabeth, Ed.; And Others – Institute of Language in Education Journal, 1994
This journal is intended to assist language educators in Hong Kong schools in developing and maintaining high standards of instruction in both English and Chinese. The 11 issues presented here contain articles, some in English and some in Chinese, on a variety of language education topics, including: language education planning; instructional…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language), Computer Assisted Instruction