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Erturk, Gulsah Tikiz; Ozturk, Kadim – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study aims to identify (1) how EFL graduate-level students at various Turkish universities regard the level of difficulty in terms of the different sections of a scholarly work in their academic writing practices, (2) whether their perceptions concerning the difficulty of the various sections show a significant difference depending on their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ulukaya, Merve; Arslan, Fadime Yalcin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
This study aims to investigate the Turkish EFL learners' willingness to communicate, tolerance of ambiguity, and parental encouragement levels. Moreover, the study also explored the influencing factors on the learners' willingness to communicate and tolerance to ambiguity. A mixed-methods research design was applied in the study with the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Participation, Student Attitudes
Dogan, Cemile; Kirkgoz, Yasemin – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
The current study adopts a mixed-method research design to foster English Language instructors' attitude toward professional development, self-efficacy beliefs, and reflective thinking. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory constituted the base and the professional development program was designed accordingly. The participants of the study were nine…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gánem-Gutiérrez, Gabriela Adela; Gilmore, Alexander – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This study used a mixed methods research design to investigate use of Web-based lexicographic tools during real-time second language (L2) writing activity in an English as a foreign language university context and the impact of their use on writing quality. Participants included 22 adult Japanese EFL learners, elementary to advanced language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Ricklefs, Mariana Alvayero – Language and Education, 2023
This is a mixed-method research study of the language ideologies of 180 teacher candidates enrolled in the English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) teacher preparation program at a large public university in the United States. The theoretical perspectives of critical pedagogy and language ideology form the framework of this study. The data collection…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Ideology
Wu, Wen-Chi Vivian; Hsieh, Jun Chen; Yang, Jie Chi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This mixed-methods research explored the affordances of a writing instruction featuring constructivist learning, reading-writing connection, flipped learning, and online intercultural exchanges with regard to English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' writing performance and intercultural sensitivity. Forty-eight Taiwanese English-major…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Writing Relationship, Flipped Classroom
Tatchakrit Matyakhan; Treenuch Chaowanakritsanakul; Joey Andrew Lucido Santos – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Gamification is one of the innovative teaching approaches implemented in English classrooms nowadays. However, using gamification to enhance reading engagement and reading comprehension in language classrooms at the university level has not been much explored. This present study investigated gamification's effects on enhancing reading engagement,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gamification, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Andrew Philpott; Jeong-Bae Son – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The study reported in this article investigated the use of quest-based learning (QBL) in a gamified English as a foreign language (EFL) course at a Japanese university. A mixed methods research design was utilised to explore the effect purposely designed quests can have on EFL students' foreign language (FL) motivation. The study was conducted…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
Estrella, Felix – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This mixed-methods research aimed to investigate students' opinions on the effectiveness of using digital platforms to carry on their learning process. Design/methodology/approach: This is a mixed-methods research. One hundred students, registered in the last English course of their curriculum, took part in the investigation. They filled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca; Bruce, Shanti; Vinyard, Deirdre – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This article reports on a cross-institutional, mixed-methods research study designed to gather data on first year writers' language backgrounds at three North American universities. Researchers administered a language survey to 1,870 first year writing students and led follow-up focus groups with 32 participants. Researchers utilized three methods…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Writing Instruction, College Freshmen, Case Studies
Üstünbas, Ümran – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2023
This study aims to investigate EFL learners' perceptions of online writing instruction compared to traditional, face-to-face one and their writing self-efficacy under the circumstances of in-class and online writing instruction. Data were collected from 52 EFL learners having experienced both conditions interchangeably within the scope of 28-week…
Descriptors: In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Writing Instruction, Self Efficacy
Gizem Simsek; Meral Ceylan Capar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
The purpose of the study was to examine and compare the foreign language anxiety (FLA) levels of English preparatory school students in two settings namely online and in person classroom lessons. An explanatory mixed-method research design was adopted to accomplish the aim. Two questionnaires were used in the first part to collect quantitative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Anxiety, Electronic Learning, In Person Learning
Kaban, Aysegul Liman; Yataganbaba, Esra – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
In 2020, video conferencing went from a novelty to a necessity, and its usage skyrocketed due to shelter-in-place throughout the world. However, there is a scarcity of academic research on the psychological effects and mechanisms of video conferencing, and scholars need tools to understand this drastically scaled usage. Therefore, the purpose of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Videoconferencing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Habib, Faiza; Watkins, Peter – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigated the attitudes of Saudi female EFL students and teachers, and the barriers to the uptake of the extensive reading program at a preparatory year program in Saudi Arabia. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the extensive reading research, a mixed method research design was employed using an online questionnaire followed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Wang, Yi-Chien – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study explored the effects of technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) in an English as a foreign language (EFL) writing course on students' descriptive writing performance. A quasi-experiment was conducted. Students in two writing courses were recruited and randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)