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Effects of Motivational Interventions on EFL Learners' Learning Effort and Achievement: An L2 Motivational Self System Perspective

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in the L2 motivational self system theory, this quasi‐experimental study investigated the impact of three motivational interventions on two outcome measures: L2 learning effort and L2 achievement. A total of 391 Chinese junior secondary students were assigned to four conditions: a control group receiving no motivational instruction ...
Xuejun Ye, Guangwei Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Willingness to Write in EFL Contexts

Applied Research on English Language, 2019
This research was conducted to measure Persian EFL students’s degree of willingness to write in English. To reach the goal, semi-structured interviews were conducted, deriving inspiration from earlier works of McCrosky and Baer (1985), MacIntyre, Dornyei, Clement, and Noels (1998), and Yashima (2002) on willingness to communicate.
Kaivanpanah, Shiva, Ghonsooly, Behzad, Salari Beynabaj, Nasser   +2 more
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Language Teacher Educator Identity, Wellbeing and Agency Nested in a Community of Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
In this collaborative autoethnography, we, as three university‐based language teacher educators in Türkiye, explore how our community of practice (CoP) acted as a catalyst in navigating our identity tensions, boosting our wellbeing and contributing to our agency.
Yasemin Tezgiden‐Cakcak, Aycan Demir‐Ayaz, Işıl Günseli Kaçar   +2 more
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Receptive Meaning‐Recall Knowledge of Derivational Morphology Among EFL Learners: A Case for L1‐Population‐Specific Assessment

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody, Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin, Paweł Mandera, Stuart McLean   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing EFL learners’ writing metacognitive awareness

, 2015
Research on metacognition in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing is heavily dependent on a valid measure to assess metacognitive ability. Since there is no report of a validated domain -specific measure of metacognitive awareness of foreign language (FL) writing this study made an attempt to develop and validate a metacognitive awareness ...
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Pedagogical Translanguaging in Motion: Multimodal Mediation in Preservice Teachers' Storytelling with Young English Learners

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid growing interest in multilingual pedagogies, translanguaging has increasingly been positioned as a response to monolingual teaching norms. Yet empirical accounts of what pedagogical translanguaging looks like in everyday classrooms—particularly in teaching English to young learners—remain limited.
Sue Garton, Serdar Tekin
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The Longitudinal Relationship Between Language Learning Enjoyment and Out‐of‐Class Exposure: A Random‐Intercept Cross‐Lagged Panel Analysis of Junior Secondary School English Learners

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Foreign language (FL) enjoyment and out‐of‐class FL learning have garnered much attention from both researchers and frontline educators in recent years. The current study set out to contribute to these two burgeoning areas by examining specifically the longitudinal relationships between two types of FL enjoyment (classroom private and out‐of ...
Art Tsang, Kam Tai Tony Kwan
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The Correlation between EFL Undergraduate Students’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Essay Writing and Writing Performance

J-SHMIC: Journal of English for Academic
Despite established links between self-efficacy and EFL writing performance, research on Indonesian EFL freshmen remains scarce. Prior research has not extensively examined this relationship among Indonesian EFL freshmen.
Muhammad Reval Fadillah, Retno Wulan Dari   +1 more
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“It's Not Equality, …It's Not Humanizing:” Content‐Area Teachers' Tensions Between CCR Curriculum and Linguistically Responsive Professional Development

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study explores how secondary content‐area teachers of emergent bilingual (EB) students navigate tensions between linguistically responsive professional development (PD) and the implementation of state‐mandated College and Career Readiness (CCR) curricula in south Texas.
Caryn Calisi, Jerry Romero Jr., Bedrettin Yazan, Jorge Solís, Kristen Lindahl, Michael Cabantac Mauricio, María Leija, Gilberto Lara, Amanda de Oliveira Silva   +8 more
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