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Entangled Discourses and Realities of English: Japanese Undergraduates’ Everyday Online and Offline Language Experiences

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the narratives of two Japanese undergraduate students, this article examines their everyday experiences of using and learning English, situated within entangled relations of power. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of discourse, the study reveals how multiple power/knowledge systems—such as native speakerism, prescriptivism ...
Aina Tanaka, Daisuke Kimura
wiley   +1 more source

Big five personality, anxiety sensitivity, and Turkish L2 speaking anxiety in international students: a mediation model. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Yayla IE, Dombak K, Maden S, Arpaci I, Baloglu M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How L2 Learners Negotiate Meaning in GenAI‐Supported Creative Writing

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores how second language (L2) learners negotiate meaning and co‐construct knowledge with generative AI (GenAI) in a 12‐week multimodal creative writing project. Chinese middle school students (N = 75) created English picture books using a conversational GenAI agent supporting textual and text‐to‐image generation.
Zhihui Zhang, Scott Aubrey, Zihao Guo, Thomas K. F. Chiu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating Meaning via Communication Strategies: EFL Learners' Behavior in Peer Interaction. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Li C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Compartmentalized L1/L2 Teaching: Connecting Languages to Foster In‐Depth Learning and Multi/Trans Lingual Selves

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines elementary Grade 5 and 6 students’ emic perspectives on their L1 French and L2 English teachers’ cross‐curricular efforts to build linguistic and conceptual bridges. Drawing on research on translanguaging pedagogies and recent motivation scholarship, we propose a multi‐competence view of motivation that aligns more closely ...
Sunny Man Chu Lau, Andrée‐Anne Tremblay   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond technology: the dominance of affective factors in explaining speaking ability among Chinese learners using an online platform. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Bao W, Wu J, Zhou Y, Zha R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Language Maintenance Following International Mobility: A Longitudinal Study of Korean Foreign Language Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Second language acquisition research has largely emphasized language development, often overlooking language maintenance following international mobility. Addressing this gap, the present longitudinal mixed‐methods study examined oral proficiency maintenance among foreign language (FL) learners 9 months after returning from residence abroad ...
Yunjung (Yunie) Ku
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges and coping strategies for achieving terminology precision in EMI medical writing among Saudi medical students. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Aldafas AH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring Peer L2 Grit in Relation to Grit and Motivation

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grit has attracted considerable attention because of its positive association with second language (L2) learning; however, its socio‐contextual dimensions remain underexplored. Specifically, little is known about how learners’ perceptions of their peers’ perseverance and sustained interest in L2 learning, conceptualized in this study as peer ...
Mitsuko Tanaka, Tomohito Hiromori, Makoto Mitsugi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating role of students' self-assessment in the relationships among EFL students' L2 grit, motivation, and willingness to communicate. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Shahrokhi M, Dehaghani FJ.
europepmc   +1 more source