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Art Tsang – TESOL Journal, 2024
Despite scholars' advocacy of intelligibility over nativelikeness in the EFL education context, many learners still seem to favour standard British and American accents. However, comparisons across studies have shown some changes in learners' perceptions, suggesting a move away from standard accent orientation. This article reports part of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Dialects, Pronunciation, Student Evaluation
Jiuliang Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To avoid plagiarism, students have to learn the appropriate and effective ways of source text use, such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and citation. However, few studies have investigated how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) employ copy and paraphrase as source text use strategies in completing writing tasks involving reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Margaret Vento-Wilson – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2025
This tutorial offers speech-language pathologists (SLPs) an opportunity to consider the theoretical constructs of language acquisition theory and the multifactorial determinants that can impinge on the language acquisition process for children with complex communication needs. The system of constraints observed through the lens of optimality…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Speech Language Pathology, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Sofya S. Belova; Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study aimed to adapt the Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence scale (PPC) to the Russian-speaking population and to assess its psychometric properties. Five hundred and sixty-four undergraduate students from Western, Central, and Caucasian regions of Russia and Kazakhstan participated in the study. Internal consistency, factorial,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Language Tests, Likert Scales
Erin Quirk; Natasha Hadeed; Krista Byers-Heinlein – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Family language strategies are approaches that parents adopt for language use with their multilingual children. In bilingual contexts, these strategies influence children's language exposure and development (MacLeod et al., 2022). In the more complex context of trilingualism, how families settle on strategies and their relationship with exposure…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Vo Ngoc Hoi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Engaging students in the second language (L2) classroom is a critical task that requires a clear understanding of the multilayered characteristics of the L2 classroom and the motivational mechanisms through which these characteristics influence student engagement. This study contributes to the L2 engagement literature in this regard by examining…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Darmawansah Darmawansah; Dzul Rachman; Febiyani Febiyani; Gwo-Jen Hwang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Argumentation is a complex skill essential for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students to effectively use their English language and reasoning abilities in writing and speaking. Constructing arguments without proper collaborative scaffolding and technological support can be cognitively demanding. Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cooperative Learning, Persuasive Discourse, Scripts
Noboru Sakai – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
This study aims to investigate ChatGPT's ability to comprehend input from nonnative speakers, specifically those learning English as a second language, with Japanese speakers serving as the model population. The experiment examines how ChatGPT evaluates the difficulty levels of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Angelica Ribeiro; Zohreh R. Eslami – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Language negotiations facilitate second language acquisition (SLA) in both face-to-face (FTF) and computer-mediated interactions. Research shows that dyadic type can impact the quantity and quality of negotiations. Although both learner (L)-learner and native speaker (NS)-L dyadic type interactions have shown to be beneficial to SLA, it is still…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Language Proficiency, Interaction
Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Sanabria, Ashley Adams; Nip, Ignatius S. B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: We examined native language (L1) and second language (L2) convergence of underlying skills in adult L2 learners as well as the contribution of instructional L2 level on L2 attainment across speech motor, lexical, and narrative levels. Method: Thirty-four adult Spanish L2 learners who had completed at least 1 year of college Spanish…
Descriptors: Native Language, English, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Alotaibi, Abdullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Previous research in L2 perception has shown limited and diverge findings for final stop voicing contrasts by learners with different L1 backgrounds in comparison to natives of the target language. This paper aimed to investigate L2 learners' perceptual identification of voicing in English final stops based on the duration of succeeding vowel, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Identification
Jitpaisarnwattana, Napat; Darasawang, Pornapit; Reinders, Hayo – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
In the last decade, Language MOOCs have attracted a lot of interest for their potential to enhance language learning. However, how learners engage with MOOC environments and realise their benefits, remains unclear. The current study adopts activity theory (Engeström in J Educ Work 14:133-156, 2001) as a lens to comprehend the affordances and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Online Courses, Affordances, Cooperative Learning
Hazrat, Mandana; Read, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
The Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) is a framework for designing vocabulary-learning tasks which was proposed by Batia Laufer and Jan Hulstijn in 2001. It assumes that task effectiveness depends on three components induced by a task: a motivational component (need) and two cognitive components (search and evaluation). The hypothesis has been…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Vocabulary Development, Language Research, Evidence
Li, Rui – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Despite the growing body of research on foreign language reading anxiety, there is still a dearth of comprehensive meta-analysis regarding the effect sizes of these studies. To fill the gap, this study meta-analyzed the overall average correlation between foreign language reading anxiety and its correlates among 9785 participants: two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Strategies, Self Efficacy, Anxiety
Dunn, Karen; Iwaniec, Janina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
A foundation of second language motivational theory has been that motivation contributes to explaining variance in language learning proficiency; however, empirical findings have been mixed. This article presents an innovative approach to exploring L2 proficiency and motivations of teenage English language learners in Madrid, Spain (N = 1773).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning