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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Editor; Vander Tavares, Editor – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2024
"Language Teacher Identity" presents a groundbreaking critical examination of how ideologies of race, ethnicity, accent, and immigration status impact perceptions of plurilingual teachers. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of established and emerging scholars, this important work of scholarship addresses issues…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Characteristics
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Llinares, Ana; Lyster, Roy – Language Learning Journal, 2014
This study compares the frequency and distribution of different types of corrective feedback (CF) (recasts, prompts and explicit correction) and learner uptake in 43 hours of classroom interaction at the 4th-5th grade level across three instructional settings: (1) two content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms in Spain with English…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
This study extends previous research on the relationships among intelligibility, perceived comprehensibility, and accentedness. The researchers obtained accent and comprehensibility ratings and transcriptions of accented speech of Cantonese, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish intermediate English-as-a-Second-Language students from native English…
Descriptors: Cantonese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialects
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Multiculture Education Resource Centre. – 1989
This bibliography is based on a collection at Manitoba's Multiculture Educational Resource Center and contains materials appropriate for the teaching of a number of languages other than French, English, and Canadian native languages. The focus is on heritage language teaching, but some titles pertain to the history and culture of the various…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese
Pinton, Rae; Strong, Irene – 1984
This manual is designed for use by both teachers and students in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) job-search skills program, and is intended for use by students at the upper beginner or lower intermediate language proficiency level. The content can be used as a complete job search skills program, a resource for program development, a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Chinese, Employment Interviews
Masny, Diana; Foxall, Justine – 1992
A study investigated links between writing apprehension, preferred writing processes, and academic achievement in 28 adult learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). One group was of varying language background in an intensive intermediate ESL class and the other consisted of francophone Canadians in an evening intermediate ESL writing class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Arabic
Freed, Barbara F., Ed. – 1995
The collection of essays on second language learning during study abroad includes: "Language Learning and Study Abroad" (Barbara F. Freed); "Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad" (Richard D. Brecht, Dan E. Davidson, Ralph B. Ginsberg); "A Canadian Interprovincial Exchange: Evaluating the Linguistic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Discourse Analysis