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Kai-Lin Yang; Janina Krawitz; Stanislaw Schukajlow; Chai-Ching Yang; Yu-Ping Chang – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Based on expectancy-value theory, this study adopted a person-centred approach to explore the heterogeneous profiles of secondary German and Taiwanese students' mathematical modelling task values, and examined the differences in their mathematical modelling performance, controlling for the variable of intra-mathematical knowledge among the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematical Models, Knowledge Level, Secondary School Students
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Chun-Ting Yang – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article focuses on the role of language ideology in four students' ethnic identity during one stage. I employ Bakhtin's concepts of ideological becoming, and of authoritative and internally persuasive discourse to explore how the student participants are conscious of language and social worlds, including their heritage language and ethnic…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Grade 8, Grade 9, Native Language Instruction
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Jun Chen Hsieh – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Despite the increasing attention to technology-enhanced language learning in English-as-a-foreign-language contexts, investigation regarding the effects of multimodal technologies on affective factors (particularly emotions and grit) in digital storytelling has remained underexplored. Therefore, this mixed-methods study reports on…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Story Telling, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Tzung-Ruei Tsou – SAGE Open, 2024
The importance of family background in determining a student's academic achievement has long been acknowledged by researchers. Nonetheless, the effect of schooling on this relationship has also been widely investigated. Some studies have shown that family background plays a far stronger role while the effect of schooling is minimal; others have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics
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Tzu-Yang Chao; Yao-Ting Sung; Fen-Lan Tseng – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examined changes of test anxiety under the reform of the examination system in Taiwan. We sampled 46,361 Grade 9 students in Taiwan for 9 consecutive years starting from 2011 to collect data on their test anxiety, cram school attendance frequency, and academic achievement. Students' test anxiety level was compared between three periods:…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students
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Tzu-Yu Tai; Howard Hao-Jan Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
English speaking is considered the most difficult and anxiety-provoking language skill for EFL learners due to lack of access to authentic language use, fear of making mistakes, and peers' negative comments. With automatic speech recognition and natural language processing, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have potential in foreign language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Speech Communication, English Language Learners, Anxiety
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Tzu-Yu Tai; Howard Hao-Jan Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) has emerged as a valuable tool for EFL learning by offering interactive authentic contexts. Although IPA is believed to be motivational and useful, empirical evidence is limited and contradictory, especially the efficacy of listening comprehension. Therefore, the study investigated the impact of IPA on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Adolescents, Listening Comprehension