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Alm, Antonie – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper investigates the use of "Facebook" for out-of-class, informal language learning. 190 New Zealand university language students (Chinese, German, French, Japanese and Spanish) completed an anonymous online questionnaire on (1) their perceptions of "Facebook" as a multilingual environment, (2) their online writing…
Descriptors: Social Media, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
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Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Elder, Catherine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2008
This paper investigates the code-switching behaviour of two native speaker teachers teaching their mother tongue--French and Korean, respectively--to predominantly English monolingual students in New Zealand secondary schools. A close analysis of these teachers' classroom discourse and their perceptions about classroom language use reveals a range…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Native Speakers, Code Switching (Language)
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Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Elder, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2005
This article examines the language choices made by native-speaker teachers of Japanese, Korean, German and French in foreign language (FL) classrooms in New Zealand secondary schools. It explores these teachers' patterns of alternation between English, the majority language, and the TL, using both AS-units (Analysis of Speech units), devised by…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries