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TuongVan Vu; Martijn Meeter; Abe Hofman; Brenda Jansen; Lucía Magis-Weinberg; Elise van Triest; Nienke van Atteveldt – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: The purported reciprocity between motivation and academic achievement in education has largely been supported by correlational data. Aims: Our first aim was to determine experimentally whether motivation and achievement are reciprocally related. The second objective was to investigate a potential behavioural mediation pathway between…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Undergraduate Students
Abdelaziz Agrram; Najat Mokhtari; Daouia Laaboudi – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Despite the well-established role of lexis in proficiency in the four skills, a great deal of research has focused on the importance of vocabulary breadth and depth in reading. Therefore, the neglect of productive skills has motivated recent calls to inspect the impact of lexical dimensions on writing ability. Using Partial Least Squares…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Saud, Mohan Singh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Students' knowledge of academic vocabulary is a crucial aspect of learning English as a second or foreign language at the university level. Using academic vocabulary lists could be a valuable resource in teaching and learning vocabulary. This study measured the academic vocabulary size of Nepalese university students using Schmitt's (2010)…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, College Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Fievez, Isabeau; Montero Perez, Maribel; Cornillie, Frederik; Desmet, Piet – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This paper investigates the effects of watching an entire season of a French series with the streaming service Netflix in an out-of-classroom context. University Dutch-speaking low- to high-intermediate learners of French were divided into two groups: a control group who only took the tests (N = 37) and a treatment group (N = 65). Learners in the…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, French, Second Language Learning
Dennis Laffey – English Teaching, 2024
This paper presents data capturing Korean university students' familiarity with English online acronyms, examines factors that may predict this familiarity, and presents an explicit instruction intervention involving vocabulary knowledge of online acronyms. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) measured students' vocabulary size, while a self-report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Vocabulary Development
Al Bukhari, Juman; Dewey, John A. – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
In second language acquisition, a popular method of introducing new vocabulary is by embedding the words in a natural text. Supplementary information (e.g., definitions, illustrations, synonyms, etc.), or glosses, can be included in the margins of the texts to highlight and improve retention of the new words. Previous studies suggest multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Arabic, Recall (Psychology)
Paola Mannarelli; Raquel Serrano – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Pop songs have been claimed to provide a noteworthy source of second language (L2) input. While listening to songs in English is one of the most commonly reported out-of-class activities among EFL learners, little research exists as to how different teaching approaches to the use of songs in the EFL class can enhance students' vocabulary learning.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Music, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Chiu-Jung Chen; Pei-Lin Liu – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
This research examined the possibility of using Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and Total Physical Response (TPR) as a new method of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. This study sought to explore the potential benefits of this integration of methodologies in order to facilitate…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Marjana Šifrar Kalan; Javier Muñoz-Basols; Pablo Robles-García; Tripp Strawbridge; Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the effects of multilingualism and the degree of proficiency in different languages on vocabulary knowledge among Spanish language learners. Participants completed a 160-word meaning recall test designed to measure their knowledge of the 8,000 most frequent Spanish words and a self-assessment questionnaire on their…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, Multilingualism, Word Frequency
Chen Chen; Yifeng Yuan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) in Chinese as a second language (CSL) vocabulary learning from the international students' perspective. A new theoretical framework of VR-based vocabulary learning was designed and verified to serve the investigation. A total of 30 international students learning CSL in a Chinese…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Computer Simulation
Huang, Ting – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Protecting the environment is an important topic. In this study, college Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) students engaged in an agentive process of informally learning the Chinese language and culture by watching "The Mermaid" a movie produced in China in 2016, which focuses on sustainability. Informal learning is recognized as one…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Informal Education, Films
Rapti, Danai; Gerogiannis, Demetris; Soulis, Spyridon-Georgios – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
For students with intellectual disability the need for effective teaching strategies in Foreign Language Learning is imperative. In recent years, the advent of Augmented Reality (AR) in Special Education has shown promising results. In the present research an AR intervention for English vocabulary instruction of three students with intellectual…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
Laufer, Batia; Vaisman, Esther Emma – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Extramural exposure, through activities such as watching TV, gaming, networking, and online reading, has become an important source of vocabulary acquisition in English as a foreign language, particularly when learners' first language (L1) has many cognates with English. Our study examined extramural vocabulary acquisition of 10th-grade L1…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Informal Education
Pauwels, Paul – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
Deliberate vocabulary study has mostly been studied within a strictly experimental framework of learning and memorization. More ecologically valid investigations embedded in existing study contexts have been rare. This study fits into the latter paradigm, investigating how students attempted to learn 90 English words over a period of three weeks…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes
Kayali, Nurda Karadeniz; Altuntas, Asli – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
Teaching vocabulary is a big challenge for teachers, and also a huge difficulty for students is to remember the vocabulary items. The main purpose of this study is to create an enjoyable learning and teaching environment to help students revise certain vocabulary items and make students have fun by being creative. In that, memes are trendy…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Humor, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)