Native speakers are more likeable and knowledgeable, but foreign speakers are not bad: Disentangling language-based social preferences in early childhood. [PDF]
Zeng D, Hwang HG, Burke N, Woodward A.
europepmc +1 more source
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
Modeling AI trust and AI self-efficacy in AI-assisted EFL classrooms: the role of basic psychological needs in classroom engagement. [PDF]
Guo H, Zheng M.
europepmc +1 more source
Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
wiley +1 more source
A scoping review of EFL learners' interlanguage pragmatic development. [PDF]
Li H, Kasim ZM, Ang LH.
europepmc +1 more source
Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity
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
Simulating the "cultural other": the impact of GenAI interlocutors on EFL learners' intercultural communicative competence, speaking anxiety, and learning engagement. [PDF]
Qu Z, Chen L.
europepmc +1 more source
Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
wiley +1 more source
The effect of metalinguistic awareness on bilingual vocabulary knowledge in Chinese deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. [PDF]
Shao T, Chen L, Li F, Lu F, Zhang H.
europepmc +1 more source
Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
wiley +1 more source

