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Lenkaitis, Chesla Ann; Loranc-Paszylk, Barbara – Language Teaching Research, 2021
This article investigates how engaging students to discuss topics that reflect their ideologies in lingua franca (LF) virtual exchanges can help facilitate global citizenship development. A six-week virtual exchange is explored with students from universities in Mexico, Poland, Spain, and the USA. This study utilizes five key elements of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Usage, Computer Mediated Communication, Citizenship Education
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Villacañas de Castro, Luis S. – Educational Action Research, 2017
The prevailing pedagogical orientations of English as a foreign language (EFL) education in Spain oppress learners intellectually in ways that are counterproductive to their learning. As a reaction to this, 129 EFL student-teachers (STs) took part during the 2013/14, 2014/15, and 2015/16 academic years in a workshop which drew on the methodology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Roberto Alonso González Lezcano, Editor; Senol Orakci, Editor – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2025
Today, there is a reform in education around the world. The new and advanced technologies brought to our lives by the 21st century and frequently used in our daily lives are now being used for education. They start to come up with different practices in classrooms and schools (Higher Education in Digital Age, 2016). Today, individualized learning…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Innovation, Online Courses
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Bruyel-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
English has become the "lingua franca" of international exchanges. This is reflected in sociolinguistic studies of linguistic landscape (LL) which tackle the coexistence of English with local languages (e.g. Backhaus, 2007; Cenoz & Gorter, 2006; Edelman, 2006), on occasion oppressed (e.g. Nino-Murcia, 2003). However, there is little…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This paper focuses on the linguistic landscape of two streets in two multilingual cities in Friesland (Netherlands) and the Basque Country (Spain) where a minority language is spoken, Basque or Frisian. The paper analyses the use of the minority language (Basque or Frisian), the state language (Spanish or Dutch) and English as an international…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Multilingualism, Language Role