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Joseph Hin Yan Lam; Mariana Lizeth Gomez – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2025
Clinical Question: Do bilingual school-age children (P) who receive reading strategy alone interventions (I) show improvement in math word problems (O) relative to a multiple-target intervention or control condition (C)? Method: Systematic Review. Study Sources: PsycInfo®, Web of Science, JSTOR, PubMed, ERIC. Search Terms: "bilingual" OR…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics), Bilingual Students, Learning Problems
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
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
Marissa C. Young – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation focused on comparing the academic achievement and language proficiency in both English and Spanish of students at risk for language and learning difficulties, with bilingual typically developing students in two bilingual educational contexts: English as a Second Language program and Spanish two-way immersion program. Data was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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)
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
Ossa, Jovanna – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Given the literature review on over and under representation of ELL students in Special Education, this research aimed to study how teachers identify between ELL students who present with language proficiency learning difficulties and students who might exhibit learning disabilities. This qualitative study added to existing literature on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, English Language Learners, Videoconferencing
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
Courtney D. Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to identify in-service general and special educators', counselors', and English as a Second Language educators' perceptions of the cause of academic difficulties for students who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was used to initially collect quantitative…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Cultural Differences
Ghaith, Ghazi – TESL-EJ, 2019
This study investigates the interrelatedness the English as a foreign language demotivation factors of learning difficulties, threats to self-worth, monotonous teaching, poor student-teacher relationships, and learners' proficiency in critical reading and writing. Eighty (n =80) EFL learners participated in the study. The rationale for the study…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chen, Mei-Hua – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
Lexical competence is considered as an important indicator of language proficiency. While learning vocabulary, learners need to remember various aspects of knowledge about the word (e.g., meaning, form and use). Many vocabulary learning strategies have been proposed to help learners consolidate vocabulary knowledge. Among them, grouping words…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, Chinese
Alawneh, Hiyam I. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research study examined the process by which non-English speaking students, whose first language is Arabic, learn mathematics in English. Teachers' adaptation was investigated to reflect the effect of change in instructional methods. The effect of communication between teachers, and exchanging ideas about the efficient practice procedure to…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, Mathematics Instruction, English (Second Language)
van der Slik, Frans; Hout, Roeland van; Schepens, Job – Second Language Research, 2019
Applied linguistics may benefit from a morphological complexity measure to get a better grip on language learning problems and to better understand what kind of typological differences between languages are more important than others in facilitating or impeding adult learning of an additional language. Using speaking proficiency scores of 9,000…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages), Applied Linguistics, Language Classification

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