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L2 Narrative Identity as Drama: Exploring Links between L2 Learning Experience and the Ideal L2 Self
Gillies, Hamish – TESL-EJ, 2023
Recent studies elaborating on the L2 learning experience component of the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009), especially through a narrative identity perspective, mark a new direction in L2 motivation research. This paper extends this work by exploring the connection between the L2 learning experience and ideal L2 self components.…
Descriptors: Drama, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhu, Lian; Aslan, Erhan – TESL-EJ, 2023
While foreign language anxiety has received abundant empirical attention, its relationship with foreign language enjoyment and specific language skills is not clearly understood. The present study explores the relationships between Chinese EFL learners' foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA), foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), Likert Scales
Leal, Priscila – TESL-EJ, 2023
This article presents a theoretically grounded methodological approach to investigate the interplay between language teacher cognition and critical language teacher identity development. To answer the question as to what social, cultural, historical, and political aspects lead teachers to position themselves as language teachers for social…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Correlation
Yazan, Bedrettin; Lindahl, Kristen – TESL-EJ, 2023
In this paper, as two TESOL practitioners, our purpose is to capture our reflections on how conceptual approaches to teacher learning have evolved over the years to highlight the interplay between teacher cognition and teacher identity. We also seek to decrease the distance between ourselves and our academic writing, essentially emerging from…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fang, Fan; Xu, Yidie – TESL-EJ, 2022
This conceptual paper aims to review some commonalities between two paradigms: Global Englishes and translanguaging. It does so by considering the postcolonial varieties of English, the challenge of native speakerism ideology and the inclusion of multiple discursive practices in classroom discourse. This paper argues that both paradigms should be…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Global Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wallace, Matthew P.; Li, Vina Meilin; Huang, Tracy Cuishi; He, Nicole Cuiyu – TESL-EJ, 2021
Using metacognitive strategies to enhance EFL reading comprehension is well-established, but it remains unclear how strategy use may differ according to individual reader characteristics like gender and reading ability. To address this limitation in the literature, 137 Chinese EFL university students completed a reading comprehension task and the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Spring, Ryan – TESL-EJ, 2021
This paper examines the differences correlation between instructor- and peer-based participation scores and oral proficiency in an EFL course focusing on oral communication. It finds that there is very little correlation between instructor-based and peer-based participation scores (r = 0.187, p = 0.053) and that the former is more associated with…
Descriptors: Scores, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
Tajeddin, Zia; Bagherkazemi, Marzieh – TESL-EJ, 2021
Research into second language (L2) pragmatics has addressed a number of learner variables likely to implicate in speech act knowledge. Subscribing to the same line of research, the present study addressed the development and validation of a pragmatic learning strategy inventory (PRALSI), and the relationship between English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bailey, Daniel R.; Rakushin-Lee, Andrea – TESL-EJ, 2021
Social networking for language learning (SNLL) entails students practicing second language (L2) writing on social media platforms like Facebook. Language learning through social media activities occurs through active participation resulting in language output. This examination of how L2 output influences language learning highlights the importance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Value Judgment, College Students, Late Adolescents
Göktürk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Dikilitas, Kenan – TESL-EJ, 2020
This study examines how an online training into teacher research has been evaluated in relation to the three main elements of the community of inquiry framework (CoI): teaching, social, and cognitive presences. We held the online training as a part of TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO) and offered a course on how teacher research can be…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Positive Attitudes, Online Courses
Liu, Dorinda Tsai-hsiu – TESL-EJ, 2020
In theoretical accounts of second language acquisition, socioeconomic status (SES) has a great impact on the second language (L2) learning outcomes, where their relationship is suggested to be indirect (Ellis, 1994; Gardner, 1985, 2007). Previous studies mostly focus on the influence of SES on L2 general proficiency or L2 academic achievements…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Socioeconomic Status
Lieb, Margaret M. – TESL-EJ, 2019
English proficiency is valued in Japan for its facilitation of participation in the international community. However, average proficiency remains low despite strategic efforts of Japan's Ministry of Education. Based on research indicating that culture may impact learning, this quantitative study investigated the impact of culture on English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Tekin, Oguzhan – TESL-EJ, 2019
Previous research has shown that there is a relationship between language and identity, and thus the present study focuses on ethnic group affiliation (EGA) as a part of one's ethnic group identity and its association with speech constructs (i.e., intelligibility, comprehensibility, accentedness, and acceptability). EGA scores were collected…
Descriptors: Correlation, Ethnic Groups, Self Concept, Speech Communication
Ghaith, Ghazi – TESL-EJ, 2019
This study investigates the interrelatedness the English as a foreign language demotivation factors of learning difficulties, threats to self-worth, monotonous teaching, poor student-teacher relationships, and learners' proficiency in critical reading and writing. Eighty (n =80) EFL learners participated in the study. The rationale for the study…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yoshimura, Fumiko – TESL-EJ, 2018
This paper reports on results of empirical research investigating written summaries of first-year Japanese university students, their task representations of summary writing, and the relationships between their representations and task performance. Data for this study were obtained by asking 108 students to read an English text and write a summary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plagiarism, Writing Skills, Correlation