Abstract: There has been a growing number of reviews of mobile language learning MLL conducted on various aspects of this field of study over the last two decades.
However, unlike in other fields, there is a paucity of overviews of reviews that assess and integrate findings from multiple reviews, and that compare and contrast such findings, or establish gaps in existing reviews.
The current overview examined 17 review studies published between and , and investigated twenty-three characteristics extracted from these reviews with a view to comparing them and synthesising the main findings of these reviews.
The selection criteria used were: reviews published between and June , reviews published in peer-reviewed journals, use of at least one bibliographic database, reviews focusing on mobile language learning MLL or having MLL as one of the learning domains, and reviews published in English.
Some of the findings of this overview are: most reviews were qualitative in nature and few of them had clearly and precisely formulated purposes; there is a lack of theoretical frameworks by the majority of these review studies; there were 25 precise and specific mobile device typologies reported by eleven reviews, of which personal digital assistants PDAs and mobile phones were the two most reported mobile device types, respectively; language was the most reported subject area followed by mathematics; fewer reviews mentioned and specified their research designs, their coding procedures, their inter-rater reliability agreement, and their quality assessment.
Keywords: overview, reviews, mobile language learning, mobile devices, typologies. Currently, the relationship between stereotype threat and second language acquisition has not been explored in empirical research. This preliminary study aims to fill this gap by identifying stereotypes in regard to English and English as a foreign language EFL education in Japan, and testing whether stereotype threat has a measurable and consistent impact on English acquisition by Japanese university students.
Results show that stereotype threat plays a role in English acquisition in Japan. As the current study is only preliminary in nature, further research is warranted. This article concludes with a discussion of limitations and implications, and gives some guidance for further research in this new area of inquiry.
Keywords: stereotype threat, learner variation, foreign language learning, second language acquisition. Abstract: This study aimed to explore the relative effect of training English as a Foreign Language EFL learners in debates on their oral and written performance. Paired samples t-test revealed significant improvements in oral and written performance from pre- to post-testing.
It is surprising because what comes to mind when the word debate is mentioned is speaking, not writing. Group debating performance also improved from pre- to post-testing.
It also seemed effective in reducing their communication apprehension. A number of pedagogical implications are offered. Keywords: debating, oral performance, written performance, ideal L2 self, communication apprehension, EFL learners. Abstract: Directed motivational currents DMCs are a unique and intense motivational drive capable of supporting second language learning. Learners throughout the world can experience these unique motivational feelings regardless of their teaching a nd learning contexts.
Therefore, researchers and language teachers have been exploring cases of DMCs since the phase of their conceptualization to facilitate their classroom application.
Despite the growing interest in the field, very few studies have focused on DMC benefits. The present study is an attempt to fill the empirical gap by examining DMC benefits and their usage in learning English as a foreign language. Learner diaries were used to collect data from five students who had already experienced a purposefully facilitated DMC. A thematic analysis of the data revealed that linguistic competence; that is, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling were developed in addition to real-life skills, such as presentation skills and positive group work dynamics.
Learners not only used their newly acquired knowledge in their English classes, but also took advantage of it in their content-based courses, such as organization and administrative methods, to achieve their learning goals. The findings of the present study can be useful for second language teachers, who want to explicitly teach their learners how to use the benefits generated from their DMC experiences so that they can reach their long-term learning goals when the motivational currents fade.
Keywords: nenefits, directed motivational currents, experiences, motivation, second language learning. Abstract: In a study of approaches to teaching listening, an experimental group EG of seventeen English as a Foreign Language EFL undergraduates received genre-based instruction, beginning with a guided analysis of the context of oral production, the language used, the variations and organization of second language L2 oral texts about films, leading slowly up to an independent reconstruction of another similar text.
Data were collected from a pre- and post-listening task, stimulated recalls SR , and semi-structured interviews SSI. Overall, the findings indicate that the comprehension of listening texts is affected by the interaction between the various cognitive processes to build meaning, the specific metacognitive strategies used to reconstruct the listening text at hand, and socio-affective strategies.
These results are not generalizable due to the small sample size, but they help to understand teaching listening through Genre-Based Approach. Keywords: genre-based approach; listening; processes; strategies. PL requires teachers to continuously learn in order to increase their professional capacity, and such capacity improvement has been correlated with pupils' enhanced learning quality.
This study adopted a quantitative approach employing a self-evaluation questionnaire for preservice teachers. The data were analysed through factor analysis, descriptive statistics, and correlation. Additionally, descriptive statistics results found that preservice teachers consider the REO factor highly. However, a contradictory result came from the same data analysis, in which the preservice teachers did not consider PL practices in CSCD to be important.
The data analysis found no correlation between preservice teachers' gender, academic competence, semester, and status of their place of origin developed and underdeveloped and their PLVs. These findings, patterns, and levels of preservice teachers' Professional Learning Values PLVs in West Kalimantan can be used as reflection materials and stimuli to enhance the professional learning of preservice teachers and in-service teachers.
Moreover, these findings can be the groundwork for developing strategic steps to enhance preservice teachers' professional learning quality in West Kalimantan. The findings of this research describe which practice of PL which is less valued by teachers. In light of such findings, the future research could develop PLV improvement, by prioritising each aspect which teachers less valued. Latest Video Start A Business.
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