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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Ronderos, Juliana; Francis, David J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study aimed to examine changes in English and Spanish morphosyntactic standardized scores over time in bilingual children. Method: One hundred bilingual children participated in this longitudinal study. The average age of the children at the beginning of the study was 5;11 (years; months). A subset of the participants was identified…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency, Bilingualism
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Shadiev, Rustam; Wang, Xueying; Liu, Taoying; Yang, Mengke – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Fifty-one learning strategies were developed and validated in this study to make language learners more knowledgeable about unfamiliar environments. The study tested the effectiveness of the strategies in improving the creativity of students. 75 university students participated in the study and they were divided into three groups: (1) students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, English (Second Language), Educational Environment
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Sarah Surrain; Gigi Luk – Grantee Submission, 2023
Theoretical models have posited that social contexts influence parental attitudes, which in turn modulate parental behaviors. The current study asks whether parental attitudes on bilingualism differ by local language context and whether parents who perceive bilingualism as more valuable are more likely to engage in activities with their child in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Parent Attitudes
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Mohammad Rayyan; Nimer Abusalim; Sarah Alshanmy; Sharif Alghazo; Ghaleb Rababah – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2023
The fusion of education with the digital world is still a developing and crucial phenomenon, especially in light of the growth of metaverse applications and the lingering effects of pandemic-induced educational changes. Learning about the efficacy of platforms like Gather.town becomes increasingly important in this situation. This study explores…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Electronic Learning
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Vasfiye Geçkin; Ebru Kiziltas; Çagatay Çinar – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
The quality of writing in a second language (L2) is one of the indicators of the level of proficiency for many college students to be eligible for departmental studies. Although certain software programs, such as Intelligent Essay Assessor or IntelliMetric, have been introduced to evaluate second-language writing quality, an overall assessment of…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Ryan T. Miller; Silvia Pessoa; David Kaufer – Educational Linguistics, 2023
While writing courses often include instruction in rhetorical aspects of writing (i.e., learning to write), business content courses often assign writing as a tool for learning and assessing content knowledge (i.e., writing to learn), with little attention to students' rhetorical understanding of genres. This leaves students with an incomplete…
Descriptors: Business Education, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Oppenheim, Gary; Wu, Yan Jing; Thierry, Guillaume – Cognitive Science, 2018
In their paper "Do Bilinguals Automatically Activate Their Native Language When They Are Not Using it?," Costa, Pannunzi, Deco, and Pickering ("Cognitive Science," 2017) proposed a reinterpretation of Thierry and Wu's (2004, 2007) finding of native language-based (Chinese, L1) ERP effects when they tested Chinese-English late…
Descriptors: Native Language, Bilingualism, Priming, English (Second Language)
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Hamidi, Esmaeel; Bagherzadeh, Rafat – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
Scaffolding is one of the key dimensions of the sociocultural theory that has been proposed in a substantial body of work as a potential metaphor for promoting second language (L2) learning. However, there is plenty of evidence that the term is misinterpreted and presents a number of epistemological problems. The first and foremost concerns the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Learning, Definitions, Educational Objectives
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Clahsen, Harald; Felser, Claudia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Since the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) was first put forward in 2006, it has inspired a growing body of research on grammatical processing in nonnative (L2) speakers. More than 10 years later, we think it is time for the SSH to be reconsidered in the light of new empirical findings and current theoretical assumptions about human language…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Language
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Stepanova, Valentina V.; Meshkova, Irina N.; Sheremetieva, Olga A.; Maštálka, Jirí – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
Migration as a social phenomenon has always been a part of the world, but it has never reached such scope as in the recent years. Violent conflicts, instability, poverty and natural disasters force people to move in search of protection and better life. In 2017, about one million first instance decisions were issued in EU, most of which were…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, International Law, Migration
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Li, Chi; Lu, Junfei; Bernstein, Bianca; Bang, Na Mi – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2018
This study examined the influence of international counseling students' (ICSs) acculturation and foreign language anxiety on their counseling self-efficacy (CSE). Results indicated that foreign language anxiety significantly predicted ICSs' CSE, while acculturation needs further examination in this regard. Discussion and implications for counselor…
Descriptors: Counselors, Self Efficacy, Foreign Students, Acculturation
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Hlas, Anne Cummings – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
This article argues for the field of foreign languages to begin to identify and define our Grand Challenges, which are difficult yet solvable problems facing our field. Seeking answers to these challenges can provide new opportunities for collaboration and can spur new directions and innovation within language learning and teaching. Researchable…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Research, Educational Innovation
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Taguchi, Naoko; Collentine, Joseph – Language Teaching, 2018
Isabelli-García, Bown, Plew & Dewey (forthcoming) presented the 'state of the art' in research on language learning abroad. Beginning with Carroll's (1967) claim that 'time spent abroad is one of the most potent variables' predicting second language (L2) abilities (p. 137), the scope of study-abroad research has grown multifold in guiding…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Outcomes of Education
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Choi, Sung-Kwon; Kwon, Oh-Woog; Kim, Young-Kil – Research-publishing.net, 2018
This paper is about the learners' satisfaction comparison between text and speech Dialogue-Based Computer-Assisted Language Learning systems (DBCALL system). A DB-CALL system aims to allow learners to talk to the system in a foreign language as if they were talking with a native speaker and to provide learning feedback that will grammatically…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Satisfaction, Speech
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Michael Byram – Intercultural Communication Education, 2018
This essay is an attempt to introduce into the discourse of Foreign Language Education the concept and phenomenon of internationalism. It begins with an analysis of the ways in which education systems promote nationalism and "national citizenship," and suggests that an internationalist perspective would enrich this tradition in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Global Approach, Nationalism
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