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Riemersma, Alex – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2023
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. West Frisian, commonly referred to as Frisian (Frisian: Frysk), is a western Germanic, autochthonous minority and official language spoken in Friesland (Frisian: Fryslân), one of the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Statistical Data, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction
Sayers, Dave, Comp.; Davies-Deacon, Merryn, Comp.; Croome, Sarah, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2018
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise description of the European minority language, Cornish, in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Educational Policy, Indo European Languages, Laws
Suzuki, Wataru, Ed.; Storch, Neomy, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging authors from around the globe. They report on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
Ahmed Sahlane Ed.; Rosalind Pritchard Ed. – English Language Education, 2023
This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy. The different chapters are inspired by 'critical interculturality' as a decolonial project that seeks to interrogate the structures, conditions, and mechanisms of colonial power relations that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literacy Education
Koulouriotis, Joanna – TESL Canada Journal, 2011
The ethical considerations of three education researchers working with non-native English-speaking participants were examined from a critical theory stand-point in the light of the literature on research ethics in various disciplines. Qualitative inquiry and data analysis were used to identify key themes, which centered around honor and respect…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Ethics
Lu, Xiaofei – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
This article reports results of a corpus-based evaluation of 14 syntactic complexity measures as objective indices of college-level English as a second language (ESL) writers' language development. I analyzed large-scale ESL writing data from the Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners (Wen, Wang, & Liang, 2005) using a computational system…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Statistical Significance, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Østern, Anna-Lena, Comp.; Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2013
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements, and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects, such as the…
Descriptors: Swedish, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Minorities
Beglar, David – Language Testing, 2010
The primary purpose of this study was to provide preliminary validity evidence for a 140-item form of the Vocabulary Size Test, which is designed to measure written receptive knowledge of the first 14,000 words of English. Nineteen native speakers of English and 178 native speakers of Japanese participated in the study. Analyses based on the Rasch…
Descriptors: Test Items, Native Speakers, Test Validity, Vocabulary
Schaetzel, Kirsten; Low, Ee Ling – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2009
Adult English language learners in the United States approach the learning of English pronunciation from a wide variety of native language backgrounds. They may speak languages with sound systems that vary a great deal from that of English. The pronunciation goals and needs of adult English language learners are diverse. These goals and needs…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Administrators, Adult Learning
Abu-Rabia, Salim; Kehat, Simona – Educational Psychology, 2004
This paper investigates the critical period hypothesis (CPH) for the acquisition of a second language sound system (phonology) in a naturalistic setting. Ten cases of successful late-starters with a native-like Hebrew pronunciation are presented in an effort to determine possible variables that may account for their exceptional accomplishment. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Hebrew, Linguistic Theory

Derbyshire, William W. – 1993
This reference grammar is intended for adult speakers of English who are at the elementary through the intermediate levels of acquisition of the Slovene language. It begins with a brief description of the Slovene language, its major dialects and its place among the Slavic languages. Information on the alphabet, pronunciation, and spelling rules…
Descriptors: Grammar, Native Speakers, Reference Materials, Second Language Learning

Takayanagi, Sumiko; Dirks, Donald D.; Moshfegh, Anahita – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
This study examined effects of talker variability and lexical difficulty on spoken-word recognition among native and non-native listeners with either normal or impaired hearing. Non-native listeners required greater intensity for equal intelligibility than native listeners. Significant effects of talker variability and lexical difficulty were…
Descriptors: Adults, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Hearing Impairments
Carlisle, Robert S. – Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1988
A study investigated whether markedness relationships within a target language influence the degree of difficulty in acquisition. The Intralingual Markedness Hypothesis was developed, stating that if structures in the target language differ from those in the native language, and if those structures in the target language are in a markedness…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Research
Cohen, Andrew D.; And Others – 1985
A study of the structure of the speech act known as an apology looked at the differences in linguistic strategies used by advanced nonnative English language learners and native speakers in apology behavior, and whether the differences result from the severity of the offense or the familiarity of the interlocutors. An apology is seen as consisting…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Riemersma, Alex; de Jong, Sikko – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning (NJ1), 2007
This regional dossier aims to provide concise, descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union--Fryslan, one of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors,…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Statistical Data, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction
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