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Sanna Olkkonen; Patrick Snellings; Outi Veivo; Pekka Lintunen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The fluency of second language (L2) speech can be influenced by L2 proficiency, but also by differences in the efficiency of cognitive operations and personal speaking styles. The nature of cognitive fluency is still, however, little understood. Therefore, we studied the cognitive fluency of Finnish advanced students of English (N = 64) to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Language Fluency
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Thi My Hang Nguyen; Peter Gu; Averil Coxhead – Language Testing, 2024
Despite extensive research on assessing collocational knowledge, valid measures of academic collocations remain elusive. With the present study, we employ an argument-based approach to validate two Academic Collocation Tests (ACTs) that assess the ability to recognize and produce academic collocations (i.e., two-word units such as "key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language)
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Julia H. Howe; Erica S. Baumgartner – Review of Education, 2024
This literature review explores the impact of music on tonal language learning, with a focus on Mandarin Chinese. Utilising searches across major databases such as ERIC (EBSCO), ProQuest Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science from 2005 to 2024, we selected relevant peer-reviewed English-language articles examining music's role in aiding tone…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Mandarin Chinese, Music, Second Language Learning
Thomas D. Pratz Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This mixed-methods explanatory sequential study aimed to identify the most commonly used World Language curriculum models in New Jersey high schools, assess the level of curriculum coherence in Spanish programs, and examine their impact on student learning. Surveys and interviews with high school Spanish teachers revealed that, while theoretical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students
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Nicola Stewart; Yangsheng Zheng – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Continuation writing was recently introduced as a new element of China's English as a Foreign Language (EFL) assessment. The assessment task requires students to complete the story within a set word limit. Preparing students for this task is challenging for Chinese EFL teachers, as little pedagogical guidance is supplied. Given the recent trend of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
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Zhou Hanlu; Sumalee Chinokul – rEFLections, 2024
This study aimed to design mediated prompts as dynamic assessment (DA) intervention to enhance young students' English-speaking abilities in storytelling tasks and to explore the effects of the designed mediated prompts as DA intervention on English-speaking abilities of young students. The research was conducted in two phases. The first phase…
Descriptors: Intervention, Story Telling, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sasa Watanapokakul – rEFLections, 2024
In synchronous online EFL classrooms, students often exhibit passive participation and boredom when learning grammar. This research study presents the development of an online active grammar learning instructional model, named LPCR, which incorporates Byrne's Presentation-Practice Production (PPP) approach and Fink's holistic view of active…
Descriptors: Grammar, Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Chansak Siengyen; Punchalee Wasanasomsithi – rEFLections, 2024
The present study aimed to determine the effects of a computerized dynamic reading assessment (CDRA) program on English reading comprehension of university students with a lower level of English proficiency. Fulcher's (2003) framework was adapted in program development divided into three phases: program development, program implementation, and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Reading Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language)
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Tatchakrit Matyakhan; Ruedeerath Chusanachoti; Joey Andrew Lucido Santos – rEFLections, 2024
Learning-oriented assessments have been implemented in the English language classroom to maximize students' ability to acquire a language through their involvement in assessment processes. Nevertheless, empirical studies investigating the oral communication ability of students using learning-oriented assessments remain limited. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Luis Javier Pentón Herrera; Oksana Chugai – Advanced Education, 2024
This mixed-methods study explores EFL teachers' attitudes toward socialemotional learning (SEL) and well-being in Poland and Ukraine, focusing on how sociodemographic factors and professional contexts influence these perspectives. Findings reveal that younger Polish teachers, generally more open to adopting innovative SEL strategies, demonstrated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Social Emotional Learning
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Ilias Vierendeels; Laurence Mettewie – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
This paper studies the circulation of learner emotions during a tertiary chitchatting e-tandem called "Bab(b)elade." In this online collaborative language learning project, students of French and Dutch develop each other's foreign language competence in an informal setting, away from 'classic' academic requirements. Using questionnaire…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes, Anxiety, Learner Engagement
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
Though our technical imagination is not restricted to the aesthetic, analogies of the latter in the former do give pause to consider anew the role of creativity and invention in language intervention design. On the norm side, aesthetic anticipations in the technical sphere appeal to the designers of language interventions to bring their solutions…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Aesthetics
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Nur Basak Karatas; Oya Özemir; Jarrett T. Lovelett; Bora Demir; Kemal Erkol; João Veríssimo; Gülcan Erçetin; Michael T. Ullman – Language Teaching Research, 2025
We investigated whether learning and retaining vocabulary in a second language (L2) can be improved by leveraging a combination of memory enhancement techniques. Specifically, we tested whether combining retrieval practice, spacing, and related manipulations in a 'multidomain' pedagogical approach enhances vocabulary acquisition as compared to a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
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Botir Elov; Irodakhon Abdullayeva; Laylo Raupova; Azam Kholikov; Marguba Mirkasimova – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
A significant number of students experience anxiety when asked to speak in English. This unease, often rooted in factors such as shyness, lack of confidence, uncertainty, and a lack of motivation, can hinder their active participation during English oral exams. One of the most important goals that every English language teacher should strive to…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vararin Charoenpornsook; Athip Thumvichit – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining popularity in higher education (HE) worldwide, with the aim of enhancing students' English proficiency and professional abilities. However, many students still struggle with learning various subjects in English. While the challenges in EMI are widely discussed in many studies, it is necessary to look…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Coping, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency
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