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Singh, Jaspal Naveel – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Understanding how people resist European colonial modernity by collaboratively constructing southern epistemological positionalities is crucial for plotting plans about what applied linguists can do to promote social justice in the third decade of the 21st century. Epistemological positionalities describe how speakers metapragmatically theorize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics, Epistemology, Resistance (Psychology)
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Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
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Platzgummer, Verena; Thoma, Nadja – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This paper will introduce the subject of language policies and practices in early childhood education across European migration societies and formulate theoretical and methodological questions. It links perspectives from applied linguistics, most explicitly sociolinguistics, and educational research on language (education) policies and practices,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Loewen, Shawn; Gönülal, Talip; Isbell, Daniel R.; Ballard, Laura; Crowther, Dustin; Lim, Jungmin; Maloney, Jeffrey; Tigchelaar, Magda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Despite the prevalence of quantitative approaches in applied linguistics (AL) and second language acquisition (SLA) research (Gass, 2009), evidence indicates a need for improvement in analyzing and reporting SLA data (e.g., Larson-Hall & Plonsky, 2015). However, to improve quantitative research, researchers must possess the statistical…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Researchers
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Laviosa, Sara – L2 Journal, 2022
The pedagogies that are currently being put forward within a broad multilingual paradigm in languages education endorse the general principle that learning is a collaborative and dialogic process engaging learners and teachers as partners that bring diverse linguistic, cultural and other knowledge into the classroom. The plurilingual approach to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Martín-Bylund, Anna; Stenliden, Linnéa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper studies how transnational children and their distantly located but emotionally close family members recreate their relationship using applications for online video calling. The focus is on the interaction of bodies and language, and if/how proximity of any kind is enabled. A critical posthumanist applied linguistics is embraced and…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Multilingualism
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Wimpenny, Katherine; Finardi, Kyria R.; Orsini-Jones, Marina; Jacobs, Lynette – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
This paper examines digital inclusion and equity in international higher education with particular focus on Global South-North Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Practice examples, bringing together students and academics in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK, are used to consider how COIL is being integrated into higher education…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Equal Education, Higher Education
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Miao, Yongzhi – Language Testing, 2023
Scholars have argued for the inclusion of different spoken varieties of English in high-stakes listening tests to better represent the global use of English. However, doing so may introduce additional construct-irrelevant variance due to accent familiarity and the shared first language (L1) advantage, which could threaten test fairness. However,…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Metalinguistics, Native Language, Intelligibility
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Pulker, Hélène; Stickler, Ursula; Vialleton, Elodie – Research-publishing.net, 2021
The School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University (OU) radically re-designed its modern languages curriculum in 2014, launching its first suite of new modules in 2017. The institution as a whole has since also developed a new employability framework. Our paper describes the principles underpinning the design of the new…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Aydinli, Julie; Ortaçtepe, Deniz – Language Teaching, 2018
In this state-of-the-art review, we aim to build on Alptekin & Tatar's (2011) article covering research conducted in Turkey between 2005 and 2009, and survey published research in 31 Turkey-based journals between 2010 and 2016. As the second review paper on Turkey's English language teaching (ELT) agenda, our goal is twofold: first, to…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Grauberg, Walter – Unterrichtswissenschaft, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented in Tubingen, West Germany, October 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language and Area Centers, Language Instruction, Resource Centers
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Howatt, Tony – ELT Journal, 1997
Speculates on what key trends, organizations, and ideas would appear in a future history of English language teaching in the 1980s and 1990s. The discussion touches on international migration and language learning, the impact of central and eastern Europe, cognitive style, translation, the role of linguistics in second language learning, lexical…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Extra, Guus – Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen (Applied Linguistics in Articles), 1990
A discussion of the Dutch situation looks at how growing immigrant numbers and resulting second language groups have prompted a rethinking of traditional concepts of education. First, ethnic population trends across national boundaries in Western Europe are examined and basic statistics on ethnic minorities in the Netherlands are presented. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Applied Linguistics, Change Strategies, Cultural Pluralism
Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznan (Poland). – 1978
The Center for Applied Linguistics, in Cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, undertook to cover experimentally, for a period of 18 months, foreign language Journal material on applied linguistics published in Central and Eastern Europe and to select for abstracting, and in some cases, translation, articles of particular…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids, English (Second Language)