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John Jerrim; Philip D. Parker; Nikki Shure – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
This paper investigates the phenomena of overclaiming -- the propensity for individuals to claim more knowledge about an issue or topic than they really (or could possibly) do. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from nine Anglophone countries and over 40,000 young people, we examine teenagers' propensity to claim…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
Wang, Mengdi; Devitt, Ann; Hodgins, Garreth; Bauer, Ciarán – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This descriptive study presents the first research cycle with four synchronous telecollaborative language learning sessions on Zoom between Irish and Chinese teenagers. Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) post-questionnaire results show that the mean of interaction enjoyment scale is the highest compared to the other four categories, which…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
Saneie Moghadam, Maryam; Ghafar Samar, Reza – Language Awareness, 2020
This study describes the quantitative aspects of metaphor in academic publications. In particular, we analyze the frequency of metaphor types and source domains in medical papers written by native and non-native speakers of English. The data have been collected from selected published articles on cancer and tissue engineering. The method combines…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Publications, Journal Articles, Cancer
Denman, Feargus – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article examines how Russian speakers in Ireland delimit and describe (their/the) Russian language in relation to representations of standard Russian. It is based on analysis of discussions conducted between speakers of Russian living in Ireland, facilitated by the Our Languages (2008-2011) research project, investigating multilingualism and…
Descriptors: Russian, Metalinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries
Crosnoe, Robert L.; Johnston, Carol Anna; Cavanagh, Shannon E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Women who attain more education tend to have children with more educational opportunities, a transmission of educational advantages across generations that is embedded in the larger structures of families' societies. Investigating such country-level variation with a life-course model, this study estimated associations of mothers' educational…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Early Childhood Education
Dey-Plissonneau, Aparajita; Lee, Hyowon; Scriney, Michael; Smeaton, Alan F.; Pradier, Vincent; Riaz, Hamza – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This pilot study focuses on a tool called L2L that allows second language (L2) learners to visualise and analyse their Zoom interactions with native speakers. L2L uses the Zoom transcript to automatically generate conversation metrics and its playback feature with timestamps allows students to replay any chosen portion of the conversation for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Videoconferencing, Native Speakers
Ó Murchadha, Noel; Ó hIfearnáin, Tadhg – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Language revival often retains founding overt beliefs rooted in an ideological commitment to a specific language because of its role as the authentic, legitimate cultural vehicle of a distinct people. Revival is thus the reinstatement of cultural distinctiveness based on traditional language. Revivalists have afforded traditional language…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Irish, Language Maintenance, Native Speakers
Jeanneau, Catherine; O'Riordan, Stéphanie – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Fostering skills development is one of the tenets of education. For a long time, the traditional binary teacher-student interaction was used as the sole approach to teaching and learning but it is now overwhelmingly regarded as insufficient. The present paper reports on an initiative based on the principles of peer learning. The discussion groups…
Descriptors: International Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
Nic Fhlannchadha, Siobhán; Hickey, Tina M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
The Irish language is a minority language undergoing the attenuation and accelerated change commonly seen as threatened languages come under increasing pressure from the dominant language. The decline of the numbers of traditional speakers and growing numbers of L2 speakers of Irish has given rise to some contested spaces regarding authenticity,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Native Speakers, Irish, Semi Structured Interviews
Bruen, Jennifer; Kelly, Niamh – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This paper considers the position of university language students whose mother tongue is other than the medium of instruction. Specifically, it investigates the attitudes and experiences of non-native English speakers studying either German or Japanese as foreign languages at an English-medium university. The findings indicate that the non-native…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Diversity, Language of Instruction, Cultural Influences
Wagner, Thomas – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This paper examines possible psycholinguistic mechanisms governing stem vowel changes of irregular verbs in intermediate English learners of German as a foreign language (GFL). In Experiment 1, nonce-infinitives embedded in an authentic fictional text had to be inflected for German preterite, thus testing possible analogy-driven pattern…
Descriptors: Verbs, German, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Baker, John R. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
This paper, through the use of Joycean narrative inquiry, offers a qualitative narrative analysis of two types of language input the South Korean community was exposed to when the doors opened to a large number of western teachers in 1993 (i.e., General American and Received Pronunciation). Specifically, this paper provides examples of lexical…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input, Pronunciation
Grádaigh, Seán Ó. – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
This paper examines and discusses the profiles of applicants and entrants to the DGO (Dioplóma Gairmiúil san Oideachas) initial teacher education programme between 2000 and 2011. The DGO is the only initial teacher education programme in Ireland that is specifically designated to prepare student teachers for the second-level Irish-medium (SLIM)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Qualifications, Preservice Teacher Education, College Applicants
Batardière, Marie-Thérèse – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper investigates the educational experience arising from the use of an online discussion forum in an undergraduate blended learning language programme; to do this, it focuses on the type of cognitive processes that learners experience during a computer-mediated collaborative task and explores the potential causal relationship between the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Intercultural Communication
Butler, Norman L.; Pirog, Renata; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2011
The aims of this article are to determine 1. if Polish post-secondary vocational school learners are studying English so that they can obtain jobs in the UK and Ireland and 2. whether they prefer to learn how to speak English from a native speaker teacher than from a non-native instructor. Sixteen learners, who study part-time at SZKOLA…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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