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Justin Harris – Language Awareness, 2025
This paper describes a mixed methods study of Japanese first-year tertiary learners' attitudes to English language learning models. It outlines the results from a survey comprised of a verbal guise test (measuring respondents' attitudes to both linguistic and personality features) and vocabulary elicitation, which was administered to 87…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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James Turner – Second Language Research, 2025
This study analyses the production of French /y/ and /u/ by 42 native English learners of French (ELoF) at the start and end of a Residence Abroad (RA) in a French-speaking country. As an approximation of both phonological and phonetic development, categorical change is teased apart from gradient change using k-medoid clustering of acoustic data…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonetics, Phonology, French
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Lachlan Jackson; Belinda Kennett – ELT Journal, 2025
This paper reports on part of a larger study of critical language pedagogy (CLP) in university EFL classes in Japan. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews, we examined the philosophies, approaches, pedagogic choices, and adaptations of nineteen self-identifying critical pedagogues. Here, we focus on the theme of student receptivity to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, College Faculty, English (Second Language)
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Mu-Hsuan Chou – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Language mindsets influence learners' behavior, motivation, and strategic approaches to studying a language. These mindsets impact how learners perceive control and value in achievement activities, which, in turn, affect their achievement emotions and ultimately their learning strategies and academic performance. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
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Svitlana Kucherenko; Veslemøy Rydland; Vibeke Grøver – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The current study used sequential analysis to examine dual-language learners' (DLLs) questions and their relations to teacher responses in the context of small-group shared reading in preschool. Participants were 235 DLLs aged 3-5 years and 60 lead teachers from multiethnic preschool classrooms in Norway. Results showed that across four different…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education
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Catrina Cuina Liu; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: The associations between the characteristics of the home literacy environment (HLE) and children's language and literacy skills have been established in first languages. This study investigated the longitudinal interplay between the father-child and mother-child HLE and children's English language skills as L2. Methods: In this study,…
Descriptors: Children, Fathers, Mothers, Literacy
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Rui Yuan; Kailun Wang – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language teacher identity (LTI) research has experienced exponential growth over the past decades, shedding light on language teachers' multiple identities as well as their construction processes in various educational contexts. However, despite the fruitful findings, the dominance of researchers' perspectives and the contextual constraints faced…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Katherine Rehner; John Ippolito; Ivan Lasan; Gabrielle Forget; Claire Gouveia; Sarah Jones; Yifan Liu – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This study explores adult migrants' formal and informal opportunities for learning their host country's dominant language: specifically, the availability, accessibility, and effects of these opportunities on the migrants' social integration. It prioritizes the migrants' experience by reporting findings obtained from analyses of questionnaire data…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Migrants, Adults, Informal Education
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Shuhou Yuan – SAGE Open, 2025
Conducting a survey research on demotivating factors in business English majors can enrich the theoretical research findings on demotivation and meanwhile help to explore effective methods to enhance the students' learning motivation. This study explores the construct of demotivating factors in business English majors in a Chinese university, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
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Yao Yao; Mengjie He; Fei Chen; Jiaqiang Zhu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Phonetic training has been found to be an effective way on second language (L2) learning, but the evidence is not conclusive regarding the effectiveness of different instructional approaches and possible interactions between language learners, training features, and outcome measures. This study aims to meta-analyze existing studies to…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Second Language Learning, Phonetics
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Danyang Zhang; Sara Hennessy; Pascual Pérez-Paredes – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
The enormous importance of second language learning, paired with the rapid development of mobile-assisted language learning, has led to the increasing use of mobile dictionaries by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at Chinese universities. Although many studies have explored the role of dictionaries in English language learning, few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Dictionaries
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Emma Bruce; Karen Dunn; Tony Clark – Language Testing, 2025
Several high-stakes English proficiency tests including but not limited to IELTS, PTE Academic, and TOEFL iBT recommend a 2-year time limit on validity for score usage. Although this timeframe provides a useful rule-of-thumb for the recency of testing, it can have far-reaching consequences. In response to stakeholder queries around IELTS validity…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, Test Validity, Scores
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Dawn Atkinson – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Retrospective accounts of materials development in the applied linguistics literature speak to the relationship between creativity and textbook writing, but this study forges another path by examining how an expert ELT (English language teaching) textbook writer deploys creativity during ongoing coursebook production. Qualitative content analysis…
Descriptors: Specialists, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jian Xu; Yabing Wang; Bo Peng – European Journal of Education, 2025
The differential impact of growth language mindsets on second or foreign (L2) writing feedback-seeking behaviour (FSB) is an important yet underexplored area of research. How perspective-taking, a less-researched construct in L2 writing, directly predicts FSB or mediates the paths between growth language mindsets and FSB remains unknown, either.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Student Behavior
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JunWei Wang; Ali Derakhshan – European Journal of Education, 2025
It is widely acknowledged that the mental condition of teachers has a direct impact on their professional performance. Put another way, teachers with mental or psychological disorders may fail to accomplish their professional responsibilities. Accordingly, factors contributing to teachers' psychological well-being need to be uncovered. To address…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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