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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
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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
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
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Adrian Leis; Tetsushi Takemori; Keita Abe; Elisa Himori; Rei Suenaga; Kota Umino – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In this study, the authors investigated the attitudes of Japanese junior high school students towards studying English from the perspective of the Self-worth Theory. A total of 383 students aged 12 to 15 years participated in the qualitative study. Students were required to write three essays about how they would react under hypothetical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
National Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2021
Children and youth are available to learn when they are ready to engage with people, absorb information, and pay attention to what is occurring around them. They are alert, attentive, and interested but not overstimulated. Optimizing availability for learning involves a systematic analysis and understanding of the internal and external factors…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Learning Motivation, Children, Students with Disabilities
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Pariwat Imsa-ard – rEFLections, 2025
Recently, there has been a rapid growth in the number of studies related to emotions and positive psychology constructs in language teaching and learning. However, there is scant research in the context of low exposure to English. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between Thai EFL secondary school learners' L2 positive and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Zawodniak, Joanna; Kruk, Mariusz; Pawlak, Miroslaw – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Despite a growing focus on positive psychology in recent years, negative emotions have not ceased to play a crucial role in learning additional languages in the classroom. This paper reports a study that investigated one such negative emotion -- boredom -- as experienced by 115 advanced learners of English. They were asked to write a descriptive…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Negative Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.e., willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom) in learning English as a foreign language in the virtual world Second Life. The theoretical part provides an overview of selected issues related to the four ID factors in question…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation
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Kam Hong Shum; Samuel Kai Wah Chu; Cheuk Yu Yeung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study examines the use of data analytics to evaluate students' behaviours during their participation in an online collaborative learning environment called SkyApp. To visualise the learning traits of engagement, emotion and motivation, students' inputs and activity data were captured and quantified for analysis. Experiments were first carried…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Online Courses, Cooperative Learning, Computer Software
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Wolbert, Lynne; Schinkel, Anders – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
Wonder-full education recognises experiences of wonder as lying at the heart of learning and education. If we accept the premise that wonder is important for/in education, what should characterise wonder-full education? This paper clarifies what it is like to wonder, how the aims of wonder-full education are best described, and it discusses three…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation, Curriculum Design, Teacher Competencies
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Gary, Kevin – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2019
Phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion describes our capacity for awe as an ability to recognise that certain phenomena are saturated. More than we constitute them with our categorical frames or organising objectives, the phenomena constitute us; their excess and givenness overwhelms our ability to fully grasp them. It is through this experience of awe…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Standards
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Jaeho Jeon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Professionals within the field of language learning have predicted that chatbots would provide new opportunities for the teaching and learning of language. Despite the assumed benefits of utilizing chatbots in language classrooms, such as providing interactional chances or helping to create an anxiety-free atmosphere, little is known about…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Learning Analytics, Computer Software
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Agis Andriani; Fuad Abdullah; Arini Nurul Hidayati; Noer Aini Nanda Syafira – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Teaching English speaking has become a centre of attention among scholars and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) practitioners for a few decades. However, the issue of teaching English speaking in "Kampung Inggris"/English Village remains under-researched, notably viewed from the tutors' challenges and solutions in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Self Motivation
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Lili Qin; Xibei Ouyang; Yang Gao; Mairin Hennebry-Leung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
In new paradigms, teachers' cognition and emotion must be considered dialectically shaped co-evolving processes. To address the issue, the study examined how language teachers' "perezhivaniya" (plural form of "perezhivanie," a concept from Sociocultural Theory that describes a unity between cognition and emotion) developed.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Moskowitz, Sharona; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
There remains a dearth of research on the effects of student perception of teacher happiness and the ramifications of those perceptions on student feelings and attitudes. Using an online questionnaire, data were collected from 129 adult students of ESL/EFL across the world who were enrolled in formal English classes of intermediate to advanced…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Teachers, Psychological Patterns, Learning Motivation
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