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Charinee Chansri; Akadet Kedcham; Montha Polrak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This paper aimed to explore the impact of self-regulated learning strategies on English language abilities and knowledge of 421 final-year undergraduate students at a public university in Thailand. The instruments used in the present study were: (1) the 65-item Questionnaire of English Self-Regulated Learning Strategies (QESRLS), and (2) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Self Management
James P. Lantolf – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article provides a theoretical and empirical argument in support of explicit language instruction. It proposes on theoretical grounds that certain features of a language are sufficiently complex and subtle that learners are unlikely to be able to decipher their full conceptual meaning on the basis of exposure alone. It further proposes that…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns
Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim; Nirvana Basim – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Researchers have firm reason to unlock the potential of social networking technologies today because of the rapid development of these platforms, which may be used to enhance educational outcomes. Despite the widespread recognition of social media's influence on the second/foreign language learning process, few empirical research has attempted to…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Self Esteem
Hamed Ghaemi; Zahra Khorsand – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study delves into writing scores in both tests, aiming to uncover the reasons behind score differences. Through comprehensive comparative analysis, this research explores scoring patterns, criteria, and score distributions in IELTS and PTE writing sections. It investigates sources of score variation, including task design, rating criteria,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scores, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Anna Mouti – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Plurilingual competence or repertoire of languages refers to all individuals being potentially plurilingual. As plurilingual competence and language repertoires are individual, assessment modes targeted to the individual and localized to the context should be encouraged. This study explored and depicted the plurilingual profile of Italian Studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Italian
Jala Hashim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to explore how college English as a second language educators described how English as a second language learners used direct and indirect Language Learning Strategies in facilitating their learning at a higher education institution in the Southwest region of the United States. The research is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ben A. Coldham – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Responding to the observation that there has been limited policy research in the field of international education (Hayden and Thompson 2008; Lehman 2018), the current article presents a theoretically grounded discussion regarding how British policy actors in Council of International School (CIS)-accredited British international schools may be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, International Schools, English Language Learners
Richard L. Sparks – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024
Twenty-five years ago, the author contributed a historical review of evidence on the foreign language (FL) learning problems of low-achieving and learning disabled (LD) students. Educators had proposed a new disability, FL learning disability, and developed policies permitting LD students to substitute courses or waive the FL requirement. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Cultural Context
Olesia Hubrich – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore how The Sims could be used to assist L1 English speakers in learning L2 Russian verbs of motion through completing in-game tasks in pairs while speaking Russian. English and Russian verbs of motion encode manner and path differently, and L2 Russian motion verbs use a variety of…
Descriptors: Russian, Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wei Sun; Hong Shi; Yi Yan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
The emergence of Positive Psychology in second language acquisition has placed greater emphasis on the vital role of engagement in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Although previous research has established that EFL learners' engagement is affected by ideal L2 self, boredom, and grit respectively, sporadic studies have attempted to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Psychological Patterns, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Daniel R. Isbell; Leeseul Park; Meghan Delaney – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
Vocabulary knowledge plays an important role in language learning and language proficiency, but it is difficult to know how much of a role it plays without appropriate vocabulary measures. In this article, we first discuss learner vocabulary in our research on Korean as a second/foreign language. Unable to find appropriate measures for receptive…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests
Kevin Papin; Regina Kaplan-Rakowski – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Second language (L2) learning research suggests that virtual reality (VR) has the potential to enhance the development of language skills due to its immersive nature and its situated learning opportunities. This quantitative, between-subjects study compared the effectiveness of three learning conditions. University students (N = 63) studied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, French, Second Language Learning
Xiaohong Wen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated motivation in the context of L2 Chinese in the USA. A total of 120 college students took the survey and 27 of them participated in post-survey interviews. Through a mixed-methods design, the study captured interactions between motivation and the learning environment in the learning process. The results revealed six…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Student Motivation
Exploring Language Assessment Literacy: A Case of Perceived Needs of Two Stakeholder Groups in Egypt
Amira Desouky Ali – International Journal of Training and Development, 2024
Stakeholders in exam-driven countries are responsible for developing test-related tasks to assess the quality of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning. Hence, the language assessment literacy (LAL) of different stakeholders has to be investigated. This mixed-methods study explored the required LAL competencies among two groups…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Assessment Literacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Danika Wagner; Sadek Hefni Shorbagi; Leora Goldreich; Ellen Bialystok – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The present study investigated the relation between continuous measures of two qualitatively different types of bilingual experience and outcome measures that varied in domain (verbal or nonverbal) and processing demands (degree of conflict). Participants were 195 English-speaking children, 7 years old, who were enrolled in French immersion…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, English, French