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Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explored the communication strategies of college students majoring in one of five modern foreign languages (i.e., English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish) and their relation to communication confidence. It also explored the association between their strategy use and the difficulty regarding the speaking components, and students'…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Universities, Chinese
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Dan Nickolai – The EUROCALL Review, 2024
Computer-assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) tools have become increasingly dependent on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology to provide automated corrective pronunciation feedback to learners. The extent to which ASR-based tools measurably improve second language (L2) pronunciation is of great interest to language educators globally,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Pronunciation, Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Meixiu; Akoto, Miriam; Li, Mimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Driven by the digital revolution in second language (L2) classrooms and broadened views on literacy, digital multimodal composing (DMC) has gained a robust growth of interests in the past decade. To illuminate the empirical landscape of this budding field, this paper provides a substantive and methodological review of 60 empirical L2 studies on…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Languages, Multimedia Materials, Writing (Composition)
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Maria Luisa Pérez Cavana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
The significance of the body in learning and speaking a foreign language is an under-researched topic in a field characterized by a strong focus on cognition and sociolinguistics. This paper is designed to contribute to a newly emerging line of inquiry addressing the move away from the pure linguistic approach towards a more humanistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Human Body
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Tetyana Sydorenko; Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros; Elizabeth Huntley; Maribel Montero Perez – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
A substantial body of research shows that various types of audiovisual (AV) input such as videos and videos with second language (L2) subtitles can facilitate language learning. However, language teachers' day-to-day practices with regard to multimodal input is less understood. To bridge the gap in language education, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Teacher Attitudes, Video Technology, Second Language Learning
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Chavez, Monika – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2020
This study examined why current university learners of French, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese, and, for comparative purposes, actual university learners of German, believe that others and why they themselves would study German. Responses were compared against current motivation theories, narratives promoted by academic language programs, research…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Preferences, German
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Edward Jay M. Quinto; Ardvin Kester S. Ong; Leah Faye L. Valiente; Leila Joyce B. Olleres; Jasmine Nadja J. Pinugu; Marianne Jennifer M. Gaerlan; John Christopher D. Castillo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Despite rich insights that the experience of Global South countries like the Philippines could offer in understanding emerging trends in SLA research, i.e. learning languages other than English (LOTEs), studies conducted in this context are few and far apart. The study explored the motivations and emotions of 389 Filipino learners of LOTEs who…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Alm, Antonie; Watanabe, Yuki – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Using machine translation (MT) tools for language learning has become a common practice among language students in recent years. Studies have investigated how students use MT, how students and teachers perceive its benefits and drawbacks and how helpful it is for language learning. These studies indicate that students think MT tools are helpful in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Writing (Composition), Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Williams, Sarah Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Foreign language enrollments in U.S. higher education are falling at an unprecedented rate since the 1980s. This mixed methods case study sought to investigate this phenomenon by examining the motivational and attitudinal profiles of 89 beginning-level learners of foreign languages (Spanish, French, Arabic, Japanese) and the contextual factors…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Declining Enrollment, Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers
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Rustam Shadiev; Yingying Feng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Previous review studies do not have a broad and comprehensive perspective on the usage of ACF tools in language learning. To address this gap, we reviewed 82 articles on the use of ACF tools published in the last five years. Results indicate that 43 ACF tools were used in studies to assist writing, grammar, spelling, and collocation and word use.…
Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Yali Liu; Louisa Buckingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The choice of language for publishing is a topic of particular significance for scholars of languages other than English (LOTE) due to the importance of publishing in the professional language for maintaining expertise in the written academic register of the respective language. While the multilingual ability of such scholars means they can…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Academic Language, Writing for Publication, Second Languages
Feifei Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As the United States becomes ever more pluralistic and globalization makes the world more closely connected, it has never been more necessary to build an educational system that helps students grow into competent world citizens who can communicate effectively in languages other than English. Despite the growth of foreign language education in the…
Descriptors: Influences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Programs, Public Schools
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Diessel, Holger; Monakhov, Sergei – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This paper examines the acquisition of demonstratives (e.g., "that," "there") from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although demonstratives are often said to play a crucial role in L1 acquisition, there is little systematic research on this topic. Using extensive corpus data of spontaneous child speech, the paper investigates…
Descriptors: Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Indonesian
Kimiko Elaine Lange Verdera – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At a time of heightened discourse on multilingual education in the United States, there is a need to question what is meant by the term and how its understandings may be perpetuating harmful power asymmetries. Specifically, California has declared its goal of supporting multilingual education from kindergarten through twelfth grade, yet the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Špela Jolic Kozina; Silva Bratož; Mojca Žefran – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
Developing young learners' language awareness is becoming an important educational goal in a rapidly globalised world characterised by linguistic and cultural diversity. Drawing upon previous research in the field, the article highlights the importance of promoting language diversity and nurturing language awareness from an early age. We present a…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Language Variation, Multilingualism, Learning Activities
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