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This article reflects upon the processes and challenges of building a digital archive of English learning narratives, and engages with broader questions surrounding the collection and presentation of student narratives on an online platform. It also discusses the potential uses of the open-access archive in a global context. The archive hosts over 3000 student narratives collected in diverse leisure,...
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is one of the most examined affective variables in the field of foreign language (FL) learning and researchers have verified FLA reducing strategies of various kinds. In this study, psycho-social training as an FLA reducing strategy was applied to a group of TEFL students (experimental group) combined with intensive English pronunciation training (experimental and control...
Previous peer interaction research has shown that proficiency not only plays a role in how second language (L2) learners talk about language form, but also influences their pair dynamics. The current study focuses on peer interaction involving mixed-proficiency dyads, specifically whether task role affects the nature of L2 learners' discussions or their pair dynamics. Sixty English L2 learners at...
Over the past two decades, there has been surge of interest in research on teacher cognition in L2 education. Although a variety of issues concerning teacher cognition have been investigated, this line of inquiry has not addressed the question of how L2 teachers' cognitive development can be supported. To address this gap, the present study aims to investigate how novice L2 teachers' pedagogical knowledge...
An important goal of educational research is to find out which teaching practices are effective in promoting students' learning. In order to assess these practices, adequate observation instruments are needed. Existing observation schemes for language teaching are not suitable to gauge which teaching strategies scaffold EFL reading comprehension in particular and language learning in general. Therefore,...
This study investigated whether the provision of out-of-class speaking practice to young learners of English could contribute to improving speaking proficiency grades, and have a positive impact on children's willingness to communicate. Two intact classes of Grade 3 Turkish learners participated. Recorded communicative exercises provided asynchronous speaking practice homework with the classroom teacher...
A culture of engagement may help to build and sustain young children's motivation to learn a new language. In this study, we sought to investigate the link between engagement and motivation over the course of a semester in a naturally occurring Japanese elementary school classroom environment. Four-hundred and twenty-three fifth-year students in public elementary schools in western Japan agreed to...
This multiple case study explores adolescent ELLs' collaborative writing practices in face-to-face and online contexts from an ecological perspective, focusing on adolescent ELLs' perceptions of collaborative writing and their development of writing through collaboration. The findings reveal both benefits and challenges adolescent ELLs face during collaborative writing activities as well as their...
This paper reports on findings from a study of the impact of language-environments on the second-year Chinese graduate students' English writing perceptions and performance. Ninety-four students were divided into three groups in order to see the effects of language environments on their English writing. One group, a study-abroad group (i.e., ESL learners), consisted of 31 non-English majors, who moved...
This study investigated factors influencing the demotivation and remotivation of Korean high school EFL students. Sixty-four grade 11 students were asked to draw a graph mapping their changes in English learning motivation from kindergarten to high school. From these, the data of 15 students who showed a decline in motivation and 13 students who showed a decline followed by an increase in motivation...
Listening comprehension constitutes a major problem for second language learners but little is known about the relative contribution of different factors to listening comprehension. Since there are still only very few studies in this area by comparison with studies focusing on the relationship between reading and vocabulary, there is a need for studies which can fill the gap in our knowledge about...
This article offers a new reading of motivation based on the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin. I join Hennig (2013) and Clarke and Hennig (2013) in calling for approaches to language learning motivation which take account of the ways in which language learning is meaningful to learners' lives. While Clarke and Hennig's analysis of motivation as a Foucauldian process of ethical self-formation answers...
Although reflective practice has been promoted as a means to enhance teaching, there is little empirical evidence to demonstrate its influence on improving teaching quality. To address this significant gap, the present study examines the relationship between EFL teachers' reflective practices and self-efficacy. Research has demonstrated the positive impact of self-efficacy on various dimensions of...
This study investigated the effectiveness of explicit, incidental, and intentional learning conditions on vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in a multimedia environment. A total of 99 university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) were asked to read computer-based reading texts including text-picture-audio glosses of the target lexical items. In the explicit learning condition,...
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