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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Fan Fang, Xiaofei Tang
Summary: Studies have shown that English major university students in southeast China experience higher levels of foreign language enjoyment than foreign language classroom anxiety, and their enjoyment is more related to their teachers and peers.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ziguang Yan
Summary: This study investigates the association between EFL teachers' critical thinking ability and students' classroom engagement to gain a broader understanding of the impact critical thinking has on students' success.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mihaela Mihai, Carmen N. Albert, Valentin C. Mihai, Diana E. Dumitras
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes in the approach of English language classrooms in online higher education. This study aims to understand the classroom engagement of 394 university students learning EFL and ESP during the pandemic. The results show that students' engagement is influenced by emotional and social factors. Furthermore, two clusters of students were identified, consisting of moderately engaged and highly engaged students. This study highlights the importance of students' engagement and enjoyment in creating a less stressful learning environment and promoting long-term language proficiency and sustainable educational development.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Endelibu Goa Yotta
Summary: Learning style refers to learners' preferred way of learning. However, there is often a mismatch between students' learning style differences and the instructional methods used by teachers, resulting in less effective learning and behavior problems. This paper focuses on defining learning dimensions relevant to foreign language classes and examines teachers' classroom practices in accommodating learning style differences. It suggests steps and modalities to address the educational needs of all students in English language classes. The study findings indicate that most EFL teachers in Chamo secondary school, Arba Minch, Ethiopia do not accommodate or address learning style differences in the classroom.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Chunbao Huang, Tao Wang, Yun Li
Summary: This paper presents an exploratory study on how undergraduate students of English as a foreign language engage in self-initiated mobile-assisted learning beyond the classroom. The study finds that language proficiency significantly influences the duration and frequency of students' engagement, as well as their learning preferences.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Saem Heo
Summary: This study examines the types of scaffolding used by a Korean immersion teacher to support refugee-background students in their understanding and production of the immersion language. The findings suggest that verbal, procedural, and instructional scaffolding can promote comprehension and language production, while considering students' socioemotional learning.
LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Yingxu Tao, Bin Zou
Summary: The study investigated Chinese students' perceptions of using Kahoot! in classroom teaching, revealing that they view it as a useful game application that can enhance learning motivation, engagement, effectiveness, and interaction. It is suggested that teachers could utilize Kahoot! to support students' English learning.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rachael Davis, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Berengere G. Digard
Summary: Bilingualism is a valuable tool for enriching cultural, social, and lived experiences for both autistic and non-autistic individuals. Despite research consistently finding no negative effects and potential positive effects, parents of autistic children often remain concerned about delays in cognitive and language development. It is important to identify ways to ensure equal access to additional language learning for autistic bilingual children.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Dazhong Shu, Chunxia Huang, Yichen Xing
Summary: In recent years, multimodal approaches to English Teaching (ET) have been developed to incorporate text, speech, and visuals to create engaging instructional materials for students. The challenges faced by students in learning English include language and articulation issues, lack of enthusiasm, and interference from their mother language. The Classroom Atmosphere (CA) is crucial in fostering trust and collaboration between instructors and students, improving performance, and reducing disruptive behaviors. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) aims to enhance user efficiency and satisfaction, and this paper proposes an HCI-assisted Multimodal English Teaching (HCI-MMET) method to promote a positive classroom atmosphere.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meihua Liu
Summary: This study examined the relationship between English classroom anxiety (ECA) and learning style among Chinese university EFL students and their predictive effects on English achievement. The findings showed that the two scales were reliable and inversely related to each other. The students generally had a medium level of ECA and preferred auditory, kinesthetic, visual, tactile, group, and individual styles to varying degrees. The study also found that ECA was negatively correlated with and predicted English achievement, while each learning style was positively correlated with English achievement, with visual and group styles having a particularly strong predictive effect.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Chang Xu, Sabrina Di Lonardo Burr, Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk, Heather Douglas, Anne Lafay, Helena P. Osana, Victoria Simms, Judith Wylie, Erin A. Maloney, Jo-Anne LeFevre
Summary: Canadian students in French-immersion or English-instruction programs were followed from Grades 2 to 3, with similar mathematics performance regardless of language of instruction. Proficiency in English, not French, was the dominant predictor of progress in mathematical tasks involving oral language processing.
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Shufang Wang, William Littlewood
Summary: This study combined collaborative tasks with qualitative research procedures to explore factors demotivating students in English learning and their suggestions. It involved 40 advanced English learners and was conducted in two stages, focusing on promoting cooperation and critical thinking among students.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rastislav Metruk
Summary: This study investigated Slovak EFL learners' attitudes and perceptions of English language learning apps, revealing differences between male and female participants. The results showed that participants' attitudes towards ELLA ranged between neutral and positive, with EFL learners tending to practice language systems and skills to varying degrees, while significant differences were found in app usage and perception between genders.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Daniel Fung, Yuen Yi Lo
Summary: This study examines the use of listening strategies by students in English Medium Instruction (EMI) classrooms, focusing on a Grade 11 Biology class in Hong Kong. Through lesson observations and interviews with eight selected students, a taxonomy of listening strategies in EMI was developed. The study reveals the unique nature of listening to the teacher in EMI, including the absence of planning and prediction strategies, the identification of novel strategies, and the classification of content-mediated and language-mediated cognitive strategies. The findings suggest the importance of deploying a range of strategies, including language-mediated, content-mediated, and metacognitive strategies, for successful EMI learning and teaching.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Meihua Liu, Renqing Yuan
Summary: The study found that foreign language classroom anxiety and listening anxiety have significant effects on Chinese undergraduate students' English proficiency, especially during the pandemic. Students' confidence, effort, and interaction with others play crucial roles in alleviating anxiety.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
