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Kate Seltzer – TESOL Journal, 2025
This article describes a project for a university course on teaching language and literacy through a translanguaging lens. Through this project, preservice teachers (PSTs) were invited to design a "Virtual Classroom Tour" for a new multilingual learner (ML). The resulting multilingual, multimodal classroom tours became reflections of…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, School Visitation, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Muhammad Nawaz; Malini Ganapathy; Sadaf Manzoor; Tess Ezzy; Shahzad Ul Hassan Farooqi – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2025
Purpose: The integration of mobile technology in ESL/EFL contexts has garnered significant attention from contemporary researchers, teachers, and learners due to the advancements in technology, dynamic features, and multimodal applications. With this growing interest, there is a need to synthesize the existing literature and identify current…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Geòrgia Pujadas; Stuart Webb – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
This study investigated second language (L2) comprehension across nine episodes of the same TV series and explored whether comprehension improves through regular classroom viewing. 121 intermediate and advanced EFL learners viewed the series under two conditions: captioned and uncaptioned. Significant differences in comprehension across episodes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Comprehension, English (Second Language), Television Viewing
Hilal Günes; Hacer Hande Uysal – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2025
With the increasing interest in Positive Psychology within the realm of L2 learning, the role of positive emotions, particularly Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) has garnered attention in Second Language Acquisition research (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014). Despite the growing interest in FLE in Turkey, the widely used Foreign Language Enjoyment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation
Kyung Kim – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
Two questions regarding text signals' influence on second language (L2) science expository text comprehension were examined. First, the contextual relationship between verbal headings and non-verbal underlining signals (i.e., related or unrelated) was manipulated to investigate how these verbal and nonverbal text signals influence L2 text…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Peijian Paul Sun; Zeqi Ren; Xian Zhao – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Student engagement has been conceptualised and operationalised in various learning environments. However, there is currently a lack of established scales to measure student engagement in synchronous online learning. One possible reason is the existence of the conceptual and structural ambiguity regarding student engagement. Objective:…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Second Language Learning, Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
Mariusz Kruk; Miroslaw Pawlak; Majid Elahi Shirvan; Tahereh Taherian; Elham Yazdanmehr – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present research aimed to explore the dynamic growth of two emotional constructs: foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) among L2 learners. To do so, we used a method that would capture the inherent dynamicity of L2 learners' enjoyment and boredom during an EFL course. To this aim, a bivariate latent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, English (Second Language), Emotional Response
Jim Cummins – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
The evolution of digital technologies has frequently been hailed as a 'game-changer' in education. However, like previous technological innovations, such as television, these recent developments have failed thus far to demonstrate any significant large-scale improvement in the quality of educational provision or in educational outcomes. The papers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Multilingualism, Language Acquisition
Faizah Idrus; Syakirah Abd Halim – Journal of International Students, 2024
The purpose of this investigation was to identify, examine, and analyse the opinions of four international postgraduate students who embarked on a service-learning project required by the course taken in Semester 2, 2021/2022. It included engaging in community service, connection to their academic endeavours, reporting the outcomes, critical…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Students, Multicultural Education, Graduate Students
Flavia P. D'Souza; Padmanabha C. H. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
Language is crucial for adapting to society, and learning different languages enhances human efficiency. Learning a second language involves acquiring any language in addition to one's native language. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has two meanings, generally, it describes the process of learning a second language, and more specifically, it…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Grammar
Yi-Mei Chen; Lai-yin Yang; Sandy Yu-Rung Yang; Chih-yung Tsai – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Attaining a high level of proficiency in speaking a second language (L2) is a formidable challenge, particularly in many English as a foreign language (EFL) settings, such as Taiwan. In such environments, students often encounter limited opportunities for English-speaking practice within formal classroom settings due to the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Liudmila Shafirova; Maria Helena Araújo e Sá – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Watching Netflix, YouTube or TikTok videos are day-to-day activities of young people which can produce different language encounters. We argue that watching videos online opens opportunities for students to use their plurilingual repertoires through different and combined modalities and analysing these practices is useful to construct the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Social Media, Interactive Video
Takayuki Nishihara – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study explored the diverse responses of Japanese university-level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to lexically easy short poems. These participants had attained a high level of English proficiency and were able to grasp the literal meaning of the poems. The investigation employed confidence level and reading time as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhicheng Mao; Icy Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Although a surfeit of research has investigated the technicality and efficacy of feedback, much less attention has been directed towards student engagement with written feedback. In second-language writing scholarship, student engagement is considered the linchpin that connects feedback provision with learning outcomes and is crucial for feedback…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
Junyan Guo; Martin East – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
The importance of vocabulary when speaking is not only demonstrated in models of second language speech production and speaking proficiency but also reflected in rating criteria and assessment scales. The present study examined and compared micro-level lexical information in a speaking task from two complementary stakeholders' perspectives…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Speech Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Vocabulary