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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Analysis of a corpus of errors in pronouncing Proper Nouns used in English collected from the spontaneous speech of a sample of Arab informants showed that Arabic speakers have the following problems: (i) mispronouncing English vowels in "Google," "Moodle," "Uber," "Nixon," "London;" (ii) replacing…
Descriptors: Arabs, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Nouns
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Madden, Oneil N. – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Gamification is a method used to engage and motivate students virtually during the coronavirus pandemic. This paper reports on the use of Kahoot! as a review tool in French as a foreign language (L2) classes at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Jamaica, as a means of formative assessment. Using the exploratory approach, it seeks to highlight…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Games, French, Second Language Learning
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O'Toole, Jane; Devitt, Ann – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This paper explores the utilisation of "Twitter" as a dynamic language learning platform in order to create an authentic domain of use for learners of Irish as an Additional Language (IAL) in a primary school setting in Ireland wherein 20 fourth class children and their parents participated. The Irish language context is firstly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Parents
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Ward, Monica – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This paper explores the use of a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), growth mindset infused, student partnership approach to language learning in a primary school context. Early success is important in language learning. Students may doubt their ability to learn a language, especially if they have had a non-positive experience of learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
Irgatoglu, Aydan; Sariçoban, Arif; Özcan, Murat; Dagbasi, Gürkan – Online Submission, 2022
This study aims to explore the autonomy level and use of language learning strategies in a preparatory school of a state university before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. One hundred fifty-five preparatory school students from a state university participated in the research. For the data collection, Oxford's Language Learning Strategy (LLS) and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Learning Strategies, COVID-19, Pandemics
Drake Asberry – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates intuitions about Spanish syllable structure and whether or not word segmentation strategies are affected by these syllabic intuitions. The study utilizes monolingual Spanish speakers, L1 Spanish speakers who are L2 learners of English and L1 English speakers who are L2 learners of Spanish. For Spanish syllabic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, Visual Aids, Word Recognition
Anna R. Sandberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Study abroad is an increasingly popular component of higher education, thought to promote global citizenship ideals, including the cultural and linguistic competence needed to succeed in a globalized world. While much research has focused on student learning outcomes, scholars have discovered that simply living and studying abroad is not a…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Educational Experience, Global Approach
Alaa Mohammed Shakoori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current study investigates the use of alternative assessments in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in Saudi Arabia. While alternative assessments have been recently recognized as a prospective approach to assessing EFL learning, little research has examined how language learners perceive this approach to assessment in an EFL context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Geoffrey Stephen Hoffmann – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Along with the inclusion of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) into the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) World Readiness standards, there has been recent interest in the field of Chinese foreign language teaching towards integrating ICC into the course curriculum. However, many Chinese teachers still display…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Elective Courses, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Anne Partika – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background: Dual language learners (DLLs) -- young children learning and developing in two or more languages -- comprise a third of the U.S. preschool and early elementary student population (MPI Data Hub, 2020). Therefore, identifying the most promising, empirically informed practices to promote DLLs' development is of critical importance.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Native Language
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Emilie S. Le Caous; Tz-Li Wang – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2025
This study investigates the enhancement of spoken English proficiency among students at Taiwan's technological and vocational education (TVE) universities. The focus is on the significant impact of positive learning attitudes and effective methodologies, using questionnaires and in-depth interviews to assess students' confidence and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students
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Melina Porto – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This article describes how a group of language undergraduates in a local university in the periphery in the Global South conceptualised and enacted the notion of the 'ecological university'. Theoretically grounded in critical and post-humanist perspectives on education, and language education in particular, and notions of the ecological and the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Melinda E. Martin-Beltran; Astrid M. Sierra; Amanda D. Cataneo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
This study explores the ways diverse educators' lived experiences shape their understanding of dual language bilingual education (DLBE) goals, responding to calls for research to better understand how educator ideologies impact the equitable implementation of program goals. This qualitative case study highlights the voices of DLBE educators who…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Ideology, Bilingual Education, Equal Education
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Yuichiro Yokouchi – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
The performance decision tree (PDT; Fulcher et al., 2011) is a rubric style that is applicable to performance assessment, with origins in Upshur and Turner's (1995) empirically derived binary-choice, boundary-definition (EBB) scale. It is easier for raters to assess performance by evaluating multiple binary-choice descriptors. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Masumeh Rahimivand; Saeideh Ahangari; Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Writing comprehensibly, dynamically, and persuasively in a foreign language is a significant challenge for learners. Written communication assesses language and writing progress for various summative and developmental goals. Scenario-based assessment (SBA), as one of the methodologies of classroom-based assessment (CBA), aims to elicit both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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