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Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
wiley   +1 more source

Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

English as a lingua franca in teacher education: a Brazilian perspective/ edited by Telma Gimenez, Michele Salles El Kadri, Luciana Cabrini Simões Calvo. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index.A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools,
Simões Calvo Luciana Cabrini   +2 more
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Cognitive load in processing ELF : translators, interpreters, and other multilinguals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Erworben im Rahmen der Schweizer Nationallizenzen (http://www.nationallizenzen.ch)Many factors can affect the translation and interpreting process, but the quality of source texts has been explicitly identified as an issue in surveys of professional ...
Albl-Mikasa, Michaela   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Proposing Chinese English as a lingua franca (ChELF) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Scholarly attention to English in relation to L1 Chinese speakers in China has yielded fruitful research insights and publications, which present us with various names, such as Chinglish, Chinese English, China English and a few more, leading to ...
Ying Wang, Wang, Ying
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesTESOL 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

Language Teacher Educator Identity, Wellbeing and Agency Nested in a Community of Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography

open access: yesTESOL 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca and ELT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The article outlines10 research questions related to World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca and ELT, with relevant ...
Paola Vettorel
core  

The Grit–Goal Relationship in Language Learning as a Dynamic Process: A Goal Self‐Concordance Perspective

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Second language (L2) grit, a noncognitive ability that underlies the pursuit of language goals, has attracted growing scholarly attention. However, the grit–goal relationship—including why certain goals are set and how grittiness relates to their pursuit—remains underexplored, as L2 grit has largely been examined in relation to researcher ...
Hitoshi Mikami
wiley   +1 more source

English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context [PDF]

open access: yes
In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not share English as their first language.
Victoria, Mabel   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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