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von Hagen, Alexa; Kohnen, Saskia; Stadie, Nicole – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
This systematic review investigated how successful children/adolescents with poor literacy skills learn a foreign language compared with their peers with typical literacy skills. Moreover, we explored whether specific characteristics related to participants, foreign language instruction, and assessment moderated scores on foreign language tests in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Children
Yu, Vickie Y. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study examined the importance of syllable position, duration, and tone/pitch for the assignment of stress in Chinese hums. Twenty native Mandarin speakers and 20 native English speakers were asked to assign primary stress to two-syllable Chinese hums. The importance of acoustic cues for stress assignment was also evaluated. Our findings…
Descriptors: Native Language, Syllables, Acoustics, Cues
Wong, Yu Ka – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
The reciprocal influences between the development of Chinese-as-a-second-language (CSL) listening and reading comprehension among young learners in Hong Kong were evaluated using a 2-year, three-wave longitudinal design. A total of 129 senior primary CSL students were assessed using listening and reading comprehension tests at the end of grades 4,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Ugla, Raed Latif – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study aims at identifying motivation toward English language learning among students of different fields of study. More specifically, it tries to identify the two types of motivation (integrative/ instrumental) among those students and also the preferred activities used by them. This study is qualitative and quantitative, which uses two types…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Pastushenkov, Dmitrii; Camp, Cameron; Zhuchenko, Iryna; Pavlenko, Olesia – TESOL Journal, 2021
In this study, the researchers investigated the effects of shared and different first language (L1) background, L1 use amounts, and peer familiarity on the frequency of language-related episodes (LREs) and task scores in interactive pair work. By exploring these variables in distinct interactions, the authors attempted to obtain a more…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
Kozlovskaya, Ekaterina; Gorbulinskaya, Elena; Kosareva, Tatiana – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The article covers motivation as a complex psychopedagogical process reflecting the level of preparatory department students' personal readiness to learn Russian as a foreign language. The article shows that teaching Russian is a complex multi-dimensional process closely linked to an individual's motivational abilities. The author analyzes…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Foreign Students, Learning Readiness
Sudina, Ekaterina; Plonsky, Luke – Modern Language Journal, 2021
The emerging interest in grit, referred to as sustained perseverance and passion for reaching long-term goals and conceptualized as a facet of conscientiousness, has shown that language-specific grit is positively linked to foreign language (FL) achievement. Evidence from recent studies on intended effort and academic buoyancy--constructs…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Kost, Kiley; Peabody, Seth – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2021
Environmental issues have received significant attention in German Studies for a number of years, leading to innovations in both research and pedagogy. More recently, attention has focused on applied pedagogical practices such as service-learning projects and bilateral exchanges related to environmental sustainability. While these initiatives…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Critical Thinking, Service Learning, Sustainability
Oo, Tun Zaw; Magyar, Andrea; Habók, Anita – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2021
This study investigates the effectiveness of the reflection-based reciprocal teaching (RBRT) approach for Myanmar upper secondary school students' reading comprehension in English. In the RBRT approach, the main frame is based on the reflective teaching model for reading comprehension (Oo and Habók in Int Electron J Elementary Educ 13(1):127-138,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reflective Teaching, Reciprocal Teaching, Reading Comprehension
Heinrichs, Danielle H. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
This analysis is but one small fragment of a broader project exploring conceptions of response-able Spanish bilingualism in Australian secondary education. An initial thematic analysis revealed patterns and trends in the data but overlooked the nuanced, subtle differences regarding the ways in which Spanish bilingualism might be entangled with a…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Secondary School Students, Sociolinguistics
Students' Motivation to Learn English as a Foreign Language in the Context of Saudi Arabian Learners
Aljuaid, Hind – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Motivation is the major contributor to the students' learning English as a second language. However, varying reasons have been suggested by different researchers and theorists to explain the reasons and dimensions of this motivation. Therefore, the study aimed to evaluate the motivation to learn English as a foreign language (EFL) among 157 Saudi…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
Dallagi, Maha – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
Reading is perhaps the most important skill for second language learners in academic contexts (Grabe, 2014; Lynch & Hudson, 1991). The need to be able to read in English is especially felt at the tertiary level where most of the academic sources are in English. Yet, Reading is one of the skills that learners often find extremely difficult…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Skills, Difficulty Level, College Students
Shin, Hye Won; Lee, Jiyoon; Brawn, James; Do, Juhyun – English Teaching, 2021
The present study investigated newly recruited native-speaking teachers of the English Program in Korea (EPIK) with a focus on their individual characteristics, their perceptions on second language (L2) learning and teaching processes, and their teaching experience as a variable (novice vs. expert) in their understanding of language learning and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
An Ex-Post Facto Study on the Affective Domain of the 5th Grade English Language Teaching Curriculum
Güngör, Murat; Geçikli, Merve – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2021
The primary purpose of this study was to analyze the affective domain of the fifth-grade intensive English curriculum. The study sample was 366 fifth-grade students from seven schools selected through convenience sampling from 1803 students in 47 secondary schools in Igdir. We used "The Scale of Affective Objectives of Teaching English to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Godfroid, Aline; Kim, Kathy MinHye – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study addresses the role of domain-general mechanisms in second-language learning and knowledge using an individual differences approach. We examine the predictive validity of implicit-statistical learning aptitude for implicit second-language knowledge. Participants (n = 131) completed a battery of four aptitude measures and nine grammar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Aptitude, Academic Aptitude, Individual Differences