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Jones, Brett D.; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Li, Ming; Mohamed, Hanaa Ezzat; Reilly, Peter – SAGE Open, 2023
This study examined whether the five scales of the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory produced valid scores when used in university English language courses across four different countries. We surveyed 1,147 students in English language courses in Iran, Mexico, China, and Egypt and analyzed their responses by performing measurement…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bui, Hung Phu; Huong, Le Pham Hoai – SAGE Open, 2023
Effective teaching of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) is considered to enhance workers' performance, efficacy, and professional development. Thus, what students and teachers believe to lead to effective EOP teaching is worth exploring. This study set out to compare students' and teachers' beliefs about effective EOP teaching. It employed a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Alsahafi, Morad – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year university students majoring in English completed a vocabulary depth test, the Word Associates Test (WAT), based on the Academic Word List (AWL). Then,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Wang, Qi; Zhang, Ning; Ma, Wulin – SAGE Open, 2023
This paper is designed to explore the current status of Chinese EFL teachers' use of digital resources in doing research and its influential factors. It classifies digital resources into six types aligned to the research process and uses the revised TAM to find out and explain its influential factors. A total of 180 teachers were investigated via…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Zhai, Xiuwen; Razali, Abu Bakar – SAGE Open, 2023
In the last 19 years (2003-2021), research on genre-based approaches (GBAs) to writing pedagogy has been accumulating in the fields of English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL). This review mapped existing literature to identify research trends and provide a research agenda for future GBAs. This study employed the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Li, Qi; Xie, Zhilong; Zeng, Guofang – SAGE Open, 2023
Most previous studies focused on foreign language learning anxiety, whereas relatively few have ever examined the foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA), particularly experienced by pre-service EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. By administering the "Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety Scale" (FLTAS) and a semi-structured…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Practicums, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Güven, Ahmet Zeki – SAGE Open, 2023
The present paper employed instructors' views to address the facilitating and complicating factors in distance teaching of Turkish. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview form consisting of five questions. The questions were designed by the author and reviewed by two Turkish language teaching specialists. The data were…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Samir, Aynaz; Motallebzadeh, Khalil – SAGE Open, 2023
The current master's curriculum in English Translation major in Iranian universities has not satisfied the demands of the society in which it was developed. Translation students have complained that some essential skills are not considered in the curriculum. Therefore, this study is aimed at proposing some guidelines for curriculum reformers in…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Curriculum, Comparative Education, English (Second Language)
Ali, Ashraf; Khan, Raja Muhammad Ishtiaq; Alouraini, Abdullah – SAGE Open, 2023
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the transformation of educational institutions across the globe by implementing online and blended learning, which becomes an important aspect of the instruction and learning processes. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of both online and blended learning methods on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tsai, Pei-Shu – SAGE Open, 2023
Translation of scientific texts has been regarded as having the least freedom and variety in rendition; however, inconsistencies occur when translators work with two language systems that differ in reference to time, such as between Chinese and English. Tense is one of the core components of English grammar, but such information is not apparent in…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhonggen Yu – SAGE Open, 2023
The past several years have been witnessing the fast development of information and communication technology, with which an increasing number of serious games are being designed and developed. Randomly selected participants were divided into the treatment and control cohorts. Two experiments, as well as a semi-structured interview, were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Game Based Learning
Bushra Ahmed Khurram – SAGE Open, 2023
Previous studies related to metacognition and reading have extensively investigated metacognitive awareness of reading/reading strategies of students at a particular point in time and/or relation between metacognitive awareness and reading ability. However, research illustrating the changes in students' awareness and use of the reading strategies…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Angeliki Ypsilanti; Ioannis Karras – SAGE Open, 2023
The coursebook-centered approach adopted by the Hellenic Open University's Master's program in TEIL/TEFL has lost momentum during the coronavirus lockdown periods. This study addresses synergies between institutional policy and involved participants through the experience of an EFL teacher with a Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language)
Shuting Sun; Chris Davison – SAGE Open, 2023
Existing studies have revealed that prior educational experience plays an important role in student learning, and many international students are encountering challenges while undertaking academic studies at Anglophone universities. However, few studies have examined how the pre-university preparation international students experience assists them…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Preparation, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
Munassir Alhamami – SAGE Open, 2023
This paper hypothesizes that higher proficiency in the medium of instruction (MI) is a precondition for effective instructional communication (IC), with the latter being essential for higher cognitive processes, positive affects, and better performance in the learning environment. The reported study used questionnaires comprising open-ended…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)