Future selves and motivation drive learner attitudes toward AI language tools
A survey of 361 university students in Thailand, Macau, and Mainland China finds that ideal and ought-to L2 selves shape ...
Tag: second language acquisition
Sound Awareness Tracks Storytelling Skill Across Languages in Bilingual Children
A cross-sectional study of 106 Chinese-English bilingual children aged three to six finds age-related gains in narrative skills in both ...
Culturally Integrated Mandarin Lessons Boost Intercultural Communication Readiness
An eight-week culturally integrated Mandarin program improved learners' intercultural competence and willingness to communicate, with willingness largely mediating the competence ...
When Grammar Rules Stick Too Well: How L2 Learners Overgeneralize Japanese Sound-Symbolic Verbs
Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese overextend noun phrase attachment rules to psychological psychomime verbs, and only high-proficiency learners suppress the error.
Zhejiang study links Chinese-learning motivation tiers to engagement and self-efficacy
A study of 648 international students in Zhejiang identified three Chinese-learning motivation profiles associated with progressively higher academic self-efficacy and ...
Teachers, Not Parents, Hold the Key to Getting Language Students Talking, Study Finds
A structural equation modeling study of 369 Chinese undergraduates finds that teacher support most strongly predicts second language willingness to ...
Parents May Hold the Key to How Children Learn Indonesian as a Foreign Language
A new correlational study of 34 child learners of Indonesian as a foreign language finds that children who perceive their ...
Filler Words in Japanese Speech Reveal Hidden Markers of Language Proficiency
A statistical analysis of oral proficiency interviews shows that specific Japanese filler words, depending on their discourse functions, are linked ...
Bounce Back and Level Up: How Academic Buoyancy Drives Engagement in Language Learners
A 16-week longitudinal study of Chinese college EFL learners shows that academic buoyancy, the ability to bounce back from everyday ...
Your Native Language Decides Whether You Hear Italian’s Double Consonants
A new study of 104 learners of Italian from five language backgrounds shows that native-language experience with sound duration largely ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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