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Florian Hameau – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
If oral communication in a second language (L2) is considered a skill to be prioritized, it is also particularly anxiety-provoking for L2 learners. This is why their willingness to communicate, predicted in particular by the emotions experienced, has been the focus of recent studies to examine its evolution and factors likely to interact with it.…
Descriptors: Drama, Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ginger H. Farrell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I will present social-cognitive frameworks that support the use of mental imagery for possible self enhancement; and articulate and evaluate a pedagogical intervention designed for the foreign language class. This intervention will allow students to explore and develop prominent and vivid mental representations (self-schemas)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Social Cognition
Amina Bashir; Aamir Aziz; Muhammad Imran; Norah Almusharraf – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2025
With technological advancement, multimodality has received paramount importance in teaching and learning. Different technology-based assistance is available nowadays, and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is one of them. It uses computer-based tools, materials, resources, and information to assist second language learning. Motivation…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Intention
Carmen Toscano-Fuentes; Analí Fernández-Corbacho; M.Carmen Fonseca-Mora – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Adult migrants need to attain proficiency in the language of their host society to fully integrate into those communities and lead meaningful lives. The concept of literacy, centred on reading and writing, has evolved to encompass multiliteracies, integrating linguistic, social, and digital aspects. This broader approach acknowledges that learners…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Research Reports, Immigrants
A Network Analysis of L2 Motivational Factors: Structure, Connectivity, and Central Relational Links
Kiss, Tamas; Pack, Austin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Motivational factors have long attracted the attention of researchers and educators with their potential to shed light on what drives effective language learning. Although current research now views language learning motivation as a Complex Dynamic System (CDS), there is a dearth of empirical studies utilizing network analysis to understand how…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Hussein Meihami; Christopher Alexander – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
It is crucial to study how L2 learners use technology when examining the lifespan technology in L2 pedagogy. Therefore, we adopted Gartner's hype cycles to investigate the lifespan of CALL from the perspectives of EFL learners. To this end, we utilized an explanatory narrative design and gathered and analysed the perspectives of 87 EFL learners…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Iara Maria Segarra – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language learning success relies on instructional methodologies that foster guidance, engagement, motivation, creativity, and active learning in an inclusive environment. As language educators, it is important to establish instructional modes to entice positive behavior and stimulate the senses. The problem to be addressed by the study is…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Faoyan Agus Furyanto; Laila Rochmawati – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
The practice of intercultural teaching seems to be commonly applied but not in aviation English class. This might be difficult in conceptualizing intercultural competence instructional model (ICCIM) due to the mandatory adaptation to aviation English materials. This autobiographical study aimed to describe how the researcher conducted…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xianlin Liu; Khalid Abdullah Alotaibi; Arash Hashemifardnia – European Journal of Education, 2025
In recent years, the integration of digital technologies into language learning has gained significant attention, particularly in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education. However, there remains a gap in understanding the broader affective and cognitive benefits of serious game-based learning (SGBL) in this field. The present…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jia Lin – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Using a structural equation modeling approach, this study investigates the structural relationships between second language (L2) oral proficiency and interest in learning the target language (L2 interest), in the presence of potential mediating variables (i.e. perceived importance of speaking, out-of-class contact with L2 resources). It also…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Bérénice Darnault – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner's life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation
Sena Sayici; Selami Aydin – Online Submission, 2025
Learners' achievements, motivation, and emotional states are closely linked to the roles and effectiveness of their teachers, while several challenges in foreign language classrooms hinder teacher efficacy. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to offer substantial solutions by addressing individual student needs, expectations, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki, Editor; Lucilla Lopriore, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This volume presents research on oracy development in early language learning, with a particular focus on the pedagogical implications for growingly plurilingual classrooms. The chapters offer empirical results from diverse international contexts which reveal common and differing experiences of teaching methodologies and assessment practices,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Qi Zhang – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2024
This study investigates how engagement (E), foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and ambiguity tolerance (AT) exert mediation/moderation in metaverse-based foreign language learning (FLL). Featuring augment/simulation-based experiences and self-fulfillment/external-control-oriented mechanics, metaverse provides virtualized interactive circumstances…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Style, Affective Behavior