Review
Education & Educational Research
Jun-Jie Tseng, Ching Sing Chai, Lynde Tan, Moonyoung Park
Summary: Research on TPACK has been thriving in recent years. This review study fills the research gap by specifically focusing on language teachers' knowledge about language teaching with technology. The analysis of 51 identified studies published from 2011 to 2019 reveals the trends and issues in TPACK research in language teaching. The study findings suggest variations in teachers' confidence in their TPACK competence, with the dominant use of technology in traditional teacher-centered teaching. Effective interventions involve language teachers' understanding of the TPACK framework, modeling, and collaborative lesson design. TPACK-informed language learning courses and platforms are perceived to be helpful and effective.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Debra A. Titone, Mehrgol Tiv
Summary: Language is the music to achieve social goals, and we urge cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to embrace sociolinguistic and sociocultural experiences. We propose a new framework - the Systems Framework of Bilingualism to facilitate this understanding.
BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Afsheen Rezai, Ehsan Namaziandost, Mowla Miri, Tribhuwan Kumar
Summary: This study explored Iranian university teachers' perceptions of the effects of demographic biases on assessment fairness. The findings indicated that gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic biases can adversely affect assessment practices.
LANGUAGE TESTING IN ASIA
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Yongliang Wang, Ali Derakhshan, Hadi Rahimpour
Summary: This study examined the challenges faced by Chinese and Iranian EFL teachers in sustaining resilience, finding that they both perceived person-focused factors as the major challenges. Other factors were considered to have less impact on teacher resilience.
JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Jessie S. Barrot
Summary: This review analyzed scientific literature on social media as a language learning environment published between 2008 and 2019, finding that interest in this area has significantly grown and has wide geographical distribution. The study also revealed overwhelming evidence on the positive impact of social media on language learning and teaching environments.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ron Darvin, Bonny Norton
Article
Linguistics
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Cemal Ozdemir, Durmus Karci, Sinem Uysal, Elif Derya Ozdemir, Nuri Balta
Summary: The present study examines foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety among Turkish learners in Kazakhstan. The findings show that the levels of foreign language enjoyment and classroom anxiety are similar to those in previous studies. Interestingly, there is a weak positive correlation between foreign language enjoyment and classroom anxiety, and male participants report higher levels of anxiety. Factors such as attitude towards Turkish, teacher-related variables, age, and exam results significantly predict foreign language enjoyment and classroom anxiety. These findings suggest that Kazakh learners of Turkish experience similar levels of enjoyment and anxiety as learners in other contexts.
APPLIED LINGUISTICS REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Joanna Zawodniak, Mariusz Kruk, Miroslaw Pawlak
Summary: This study investigated the experience of boredom among 115 advanced learners of English. The findings revealed that language tasks, the teacher, modes of class organization, class components, and other factors were responsible for student boredom. Based on these findings, coping strategies for dealing with boredom were suggested.
Article
Education & Educational Research
David Block, Balbina Moncada-Comas
Summary: This study delves into how STEM lecturers in EMI settings grapple with the idea of positioning themselves as ELTs, despite explicitly denying this role, and suggests that they may indeed take on aspects of English-language teaching in certain situations. The paper introduces the concept of STEM specialist EMI lecturers acting as ELTs and presents selected findings from previous research on this topic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Abdullah Alamer
Summary: This study examined an integrated process model of second language motivation based on the framework of self-determination theory. The study found that satisfying basic psychological needs is directly related to vocabulary knowledge, and self-determination theory orientations have both direct and indirect effects on language learning outcomes.
STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Ali Soyoof, Barry Lee Reynolds, Boris Vazquez-Calvo, Katherine McLay
Summary: As technology advances, language socialization and practice opportunities have also increased. This has led to the emergence of Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE), a subfield of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). This scoping review examines the research on IDLE and highlights its potential to support English language teaching and learning in informal digital contexts. The review reveals a small but significant body of literature, indicating the growing importance of langua-technocultural competence, digital literacy, and non-professional translation and interpreting in digital language learning.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Feng Teng
Summary: The study found that among 240 Chinese ESL primary school students, captioned videos significantly influenced vocabulary learning, with glossed full captions being the most effective caption type. The use of an advance-organizer strategy resulted in better learning outcomes in terms of vocabulary form, meaning, and use, with the combination of this strategy and glossed full captions leading to the best performance in each dimension of vocabulary knowledge.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Rabia Meryem Yilmaz, Fatma Burcu Topu, Aysegul Takkac Tulgar
Summary: This study provides a bibliometric mapping analysis of studies on foreign language teaching in early childhood education in Web of Science. The analysis reveals the most used keywords, words in the abstracts, citation analyses and co-citation analyses in these studies. It also examines the use of technology in the studies. The findings show the trends in the field and the most cited authors and journals.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Scott Aubrey, Jim King, Haydab Almukhaild
Summary: This study explores the factors contributing to learners' engagement and disengagement during task performance in a language education setting. Findings indicate that task features and social cohesion are the primary factors influencing learner engagement.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Tammy Gregersen, Sarah Mercer, Peter MacIntyre, Kyle Talbot, Claire Ann Banga
Summary: This study aims to understand the experiences of language teachers' stress and positive uplifts from a holistic perspective. The findings reveal the complexity of the relationships between stress, wellbeing, and health as well as the dynamics of stress experienced in the workplace and at home. The study has important implications for research in this area.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Masoud Rahimi, Jalil Fathi
Summary: This study explores the impact of wiki-mediated collaborative writing on EFL students' writing performance, writing self-regulation, and writing self-efficacy, following a Vygotskian social-constructivist theory of learning. The results show that both wiki-mediated and non-wiki collaborative writing instructions improved EFL students' writing abilities, with students in the wiki-mediated group outperforming those in the non-wiki group. Positive attitudes and perceptions towards wiki-mediated collaborative writing were also reported.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Saman Ebadi, Marjan Ebadijalal
Summary: This study investigates the impact of a virtual reality tool on Iranian EFL learners' willingness to communicate and oral proficiency. The experimental group, using Google Expeditions VR tool, showed better oral performance and greater willingness to communicate compared to the control group. Qualitative data analysis also revealed that the VR tool enhanced participants' general knowledge, motivation, enthusiasm, cultural awareness, and confidence.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Axel Constant, Andy Clark, Michael Kirchhoff, Karl J. Friston
Summary: Cognitive niche construction is the process whereby organisms create and maintain cause-effect models of their niche as guides for behavior. Extended mind theory suggests that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world. In cognitive science, organisms are assumed to optimize generative models of the world through active inference and predictive processing.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jakub Bielak, Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak
Summary: The study focuses on the emotion-regulation strategies of language learners and the interpersonal emotion-regulation strategies used by language teachers. The results reveal a variety of strategies used by teachers, with differing perceptions of their effectiveness among learners and teachers. The study suggests the need for teacher training in emotion-regulation strategies and support from educational authorities.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Yongliang Wang, Ali Derakhshan, Mostafa Azari Noughabi
Summary: This study explores the relationship between immunity, psychological well-being, and work engagement among Asian EFL teachers. The results indicate that psychological well-being and work engagement have a positive influence on immunity, with psychological well-being being a better predictor.
JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
