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A Diplomatic Advantage? the Effects of Bilingualism and Formal Language Training on Language Aptitude amongst Australian Diplomatic Officers
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Planchon, Anita; Ellis, Elizabeth – Language Awareness, 2014
This study sought to contribute to the growing literature on third and subsequent language learning by establishing whether bilingualism has an effect on ability to learn a subsequent language, as indicated by a measure of language aptitude, the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB). Test results were obtained for 142 diplomatic officers in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Aptitude Tests
The ESL Teacher as Plurilingual: An Australian Perspective
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Ellis, Elizabeth – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
This article reports a study on a little-researched area: the linguistic repertoires of teachers of English as a second language (ESL) to adults. It proposes that, to heed recent calls to recognise learners' plurilingualism and to incorporate learners' languages in the ESL classroom, teachers' plurilingualism must be acknowledged and valued. This…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction