Reflection on Variables of Vocabulary Acquisition in the DLIFLC Learning Context: Language Anxiety, Motivation, Learning Strategies, and Teaching Methods [PDF]
Vocabulary acquisition is crucial to language learning, yet is also quite challenging. To master a word means not only to know its general and specific meanings in isolation but also its written forms, phonological representations, syntactic categories ...
Zhu, Yingyue
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Implementing Argument‐Based Validity in Second Language Research on Individual Differences
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Quantitative meta‐syntheses focusing on the psychometric properties of measurement tools in second and foreign language (L2) individual differences (ID) research have drawn scholars' attention to the quality of data collection instruments (Plonsky & Derrick, 2016; Sudina, 2023).
Katalin Piniel, Ekaterina Sudina
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Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs conference program
, 2007 Foreign language (FL) programs in U.S. colleges are expected to meet educational and societal needs for the development of learners capable of using languages other than English for a range of professional, academic, cultural, humanistic, and other ...
National Foreign Language Resource Center
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The Role of Classroom Contexts on Learners' Grit and Foreign Language Anxiety: Online vs. Traditional Learning Environment. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Zhao B.
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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
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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 +2 more
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Gestione di ansia e gioia nell’apprendimento della lingua straniera: una questione di genere?
Romanica CracoviensiaLearning foreign languages evokes contrasting emotions: anxiety (Foreign Language Anxiety, FLA) and enjoyment (Foreign Language Enjoyment, FLE), influencing students’ educational experiences.
Valentina Elmetti Taşkavak
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Exploring English as a Foreign Language Students’ Perspectives on Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety
Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesAnxiety is a negative inward feeling that includes a sense of unease, stress, and hesitation. Anxiousness also has a psychological impact on an individual’s mental health. Thus, it can affect an individual’s academic performance.
Kanar Z.H. Chicho
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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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Classroom Interventions and Foreign Language Anxiety: A Systematic Review With Narrative Approach. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Toyama M, Yamazaki Y.
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