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Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explored the communication strategies of college students majoring in one of five modern foreign languages (i.e., English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish) and their relation to communication confidence. It also explored the association between their strategy use and the difficulty regarding the speaking components, and students'…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Universities, Chinese
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Linck, Jared A.; Weiss, Daniel J. – SAGE Open, 2015
The role of executive functioning in second language (L2) aptitude remains unclear. Whereas some studies report a relationship between working memory (WM) and L2 learning, others have argued against this association. Similarly, being bilingual appears to benefit inhibitory control, and individual differences in inhibitory control are related to…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Inhibition, Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning
Wood, Carla; Wofford, Mary Claire; Hassinger, Abby – SAGE Open, 2018
Aims of the current study were to explore teachers' background, beliefs, attitudes, and sense of self-efficacy, as well as instructional supports and innovative practices in response to cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms serving Spanish-English speaking children of migrant workers. A total of 22 teachers participated in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Migrant Workers, Cultural Differences