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Idoia Elola, Ana Oskoz · 2010 · Language learning & technology
The use of social technologies, such as wikis and chats, has brought a renewed attention to L2 collaborative writing.Yet, a question that still remains to be answered is the extent to which learners' writing is enhanced when using these…
View details →Zoltán Dörnyei, Letty Chan · 2013 · Language Learning
Recent theorizing on second language (L2) motivation has proposed viewing motivation as a function of the language learners’ vision of their desired future language selves. This would suggest that the intensity of motivation is partly…
View details →Kenneth Elpus · 2013 · Journal of Research in Music Education
This study examined the college entrance examination scores of music and non-music students in the United States, drawing data from the restricted-use data set of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS), a nationally representative…
View details →Jack Grieve · 2021 · Linguistics
Abstract In this paper, I propose that replication failure in linguistics may be due primarily to inherent issues with the application of experimental methods to analyze an inextricably social phenomenon like language, as opposed to poor…
View details →Masoud Khalili Sabet, Abdorreza Tahriri, Parastou Gholami Pasand · 2013 · Theory and Practice in Language Studies
This paper aimed to examine the impact of peer scaffolding through process approach on writing fluency of EFL learners. To this end, a Nelson Proficiency Test was administered to 49 EFL learners studying at University of Guilan, based on…
View details →Taro Oshikiri, 押切, 太郎, オシキリ, タロウ et al. · 2023 · Kobe University Repository Kernel (Kobe University)
Objective: To clarify whether routine thoracic duct (TD) resection improves the prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer after radical esophagectomy. Summary Background Data: Although TD resection can cause nutritional disadvantage and…
View details →Loren Kajikawa · 2020 · twentieth-century music
Abstract The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic rise in dissertations, theses, and other academic publications exploring hip-hop music, while college courses on hip-hop history have become commonplace. The growing prominence of…
View details →Chris Skurka, Rainer Romero‐Canyas, Helen H. Joo et al. · 2021 · Human Communication Research
Abstract There is much need to verify the robustness of published findings in the field of communication—particularly regarding the effects of persuasive emotional appeals about social issues. To this end, we present the results from a…
View details →Bianca Brown, Botagoz Tusmagambet, Valentino Rahming et al. · 2023 · Applied Psycholinguistics
Abstract This study conceptually replicated and extended Reid, Trofimovich, and O’Brien (2019), who found that native English speakers could be biased positively (or negatively) relative to a control condition in terms of how they rate non-native English speech. Our internet-based study failed to replicate Reid et al. across a wider population sample of “native” speakers ( n = 189). Listeners did not change how they rated non-native English speech after social bias orientations and performed similarly across all five measures of speech and across age and race (Asian, Black, and Caucasian). We
View details →Roberta Marino, Viola Tanganelli, Annalisa Pietrobelli et al. · 2020 · American Journal of Physical Anthropology
OBJECTIVES: Sex estimation in subadult skeletal remains is still considered highly problematic. The aim of this research is to test the reliability of the method of subadult sex assessment proposed by Luna and co-workers in 2017, based on…
View details →Miya Williams Fayne, Stephanie Edgerly · 2025 · Mass Communication & Society
This study examines three forms of news avoidance (repertoire, self-identified, and topical) among Black Americans and the overlap between the different forms. We center African Americans, who are often ignored or stereotyped by mainstream…
View details →Raquel Criado Sánchez, Aitor Garcés-Manzanera, Rosa M. Manchón · 2026 · Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Abstract This study examined the effects of model texts on the writing processes and written products of young English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in a digital environment. Writing processes were operationalized in terms of noticing and pausing behavior, while text features were evaluated using a five-point holistic rubric. Eighteen fifth-grade Spanish learners participated in a three-stage writing procedure: (i) an initial writing task (tracked with Inputlog); (ii) a noticing stage, where one group compared their texts to a model while a second group engaged in self-editing without m
View details →Chris Skurka, Jeff Niederdeppe, Liana B. Winett · 2020 · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Narratives can convey the need or community-level action to address social problems. Yet narratives often tell stories about specific individuals rather than the broader collectives these problems affect. Some theorists argue that individualizing collective problems inhibits audiences from recognizing upstream causes and solutions. This study tested how narrative individualization (whether a story focuses on an individual case or a larger collective) might produce trade-offs when mobilizing support for community-level policies to address childhood obesity. We also investigated whether narrativ
View details →James Alex Bonus, Judy Watts, C. Joseph Francemone · 2022 · Journal of Communication
Abstract Integrating predictions derived from the self-memory system and biographic resonance theory, the current project investigated the relationship between media-induced reminiscence and appreciation. In two experiments, undergraduates…
View details →Yongliang Wang, Han Shi · 2026 · Discover Computing
Abstract The role of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) affordance in specific task teaching, particularly the continuation writing task, remains insufficiently theorized and empirically underexplored. To bridge this research gap, a repeated-measures intervention study was conducted within the framework of Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) to investigate the implementation of GenAI-assisted continuation task instruction and its associations with the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ writing performance. Twenty-five Chinese EFL high school students participated in
View details →Holly Overton, Michail Vafeiadis, Pratiti Diddi et al. · 2025 · Corporate Communications An International Journal
Purpose As companies continue to engage in CSA, they continue to struggle with determining what issues they should speak out about and how they can create compelling messages that inspire action. Guided by arguments from issue ownership theory, this study examines CSA message content effects related to two different social-political issues on advocacy behavioral intentions, megaphoning, brand preference and purchase intention. Specifically, the level of advocacy in a CSA message is examined, as well as the manner in which the message is written (narrative vs informational). Furthermore, this s
View details →Gongwei Guo, Zhihui Tang, Honggang Liu · 2026 · European Journal of Education
ABSTRACT Although the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools has facilitated AI‐enhanced and informal digital learning of English, traditional classroom ecology remains a central context for adolescent English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners' language learning and development. Additionally, while the importance of achievement emotions among tertiary‐level EFL learners has been well established, research on retrospective outcome emotions (e.g., pride and shame) among non‐tertiary EFL learners remains scarce. As such, the study investigated whether and how language
View details →Guangxiang Liu, Md Kamal Hossain · 2026 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
ABSTRACT Background Amid Bangladesh's national efforts to enhance digital inclusion, rural university students continue to face persistent infrastructural and educational inequalities that limit their access to quality English learning…
View details →Mehdi Solhi, Majid Elahi Shirvan, Tahereh Taherian · 2026 · Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Abstract The dynamic and reciprocal nature of boredom and motivation in L2 classrooms remains underexplored and little is known about how L2 teachers’ perceived boredom (PTB), foreign language learning boredom (FLB), and L2 writing motivation (WM) evolve within and across individuals over time, particularly from a dynamic systems perspective. A total of 264 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners and 21 teachers participated, and data were collected using a 10-day experience sampling approach. We specifically examined three feedback loops—PTB-FLB, FLB-WM, and PTB-WM. Dynamic structural eq
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