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Källkvist, Marie; Hult, Francis M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
In the wake of the enactment of Sweden's Language Act in 2009 and in the face of the growing presence of English, Swedish universities have been called upon by the Swedish Higher Education Authority to craft their own language policy documents. This study focuses on the discursive negotiation of institutional bilingualism by a language policy…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Swedish, Bilingualism, Universities
A Double-Edged Sword: The Merits and the Policy Implications of Google Translate in Higher Education
Mundt, Klaus; Groves, Michael – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Machine translation, specifically Google Translate, is freely available, and is improving in its ability to provide grammatically accurate translations. This development has the potential to provoke a major transformation in the internationalization process at universities, since students may be, in the future, able to use technology to circumvent…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Translation, Educational Policy, Sociolinguistics
Jang, In Chull – L2 Journal, 2015
Young adults in South Korea are encouraged to constantly develop their skills and qualifications to meet the challenges posed by the job market in the country's neoliberal post-IMF crisis economy. This paper examines the ways in which changes in South Korea's labor market and corporate recruitment culture have affected the ideologies and practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
Shinji, Kawamitsu – L2 Journal, 2015
Despite the social turn in views of language and the increasing attention to an application of genre theory in teaching languages, the field of Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language (JFL) has not yet found genre a valuable resource for approaching learners' writing ability. Writing is still practiced as a psycholinguistic space to check learners'…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Writing Instruction
Vandenbroucke, Mieke – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper addresses the complex multilingual linguistic landscapes (LLs) of three strategically-chosen areas in global city Brussels by examining how language displays on public signage in these areas are used for different purposes, functions or intentions. The focus will be on meaning-construction in the post-Fordist globalised era as shaped by…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Signs, Language Planning
Goethals, Patrick – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This paper aims to gain insight into (Spanish) tourists' multilingual experiences by analyzing spontaneously written online travel diaries. Using the conceptual framework of Rapport Management Theory (RMT; Spencer-Oatey 2008), I analyze reports on the tourists' mother tongue, local languages, and English as lingua franca in order to examine the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Multilingualism, Spanish, Diaries
Jaspers, Jürgen – Language Policy, 2015
This paper discusses data from a Dutch-medium secondary school in Brussels where almost all pupils speak a different language than Dutch at home. It illustrates that teachers' preference for maintaining the school's monolingual policy did not preclude their creation of haphazard or humorous multilingual interstices that temporarily alleviated the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages
González-Riaño, Xosé; Hevia-Artime, Isabel; Fernández-Costales, Alberto – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
This paper presents a synthesis of a pioneering study that approaches the sociolinguistic and educational reality of the area of Navia-Eo, a region in the western part of Asturias (Spain). This research aims to provide an insight into the language attitudes and the sociolinguistic awareness of students in the final year of primary education. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Primary Education
Ambele, Eric A.; Boonsuk, Yusop; Buddharat, Chamaiporn – Arab World English Journal, 2018
In examining how English as a second language (ESL) learners process English formulaic expressions in a nonnative English context, this study aims to investigate the strategies that learners use and how first language (L1) culture and conceptual knowledge could influence the use of the strategies. This study is guided by the research question of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, French, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Karidakis, Maria; Arunachalam, Dharma – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
In this paper, we first explore the trends in the maintenance of migrant community languages among the first generation migrants and then the socio-economic variation in the shift in use of community languages. Our analysis showed that language shift to English among first generation migrants has not been uniform, with some migrant groups adopting…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Educational Attainment
Hua, Zhu; Wei, Li – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Transnational and multilingual families have become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Yet relatively few attempts have been made from applied and socio-linguistic perspectives to understand what is going on "within" such families; how their transnational and multilingual experiences impact on the family dynamics and their everyday…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Bilingualism
Ekundayo, Omowumi Steve Bode – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper examines the linguistic habit of "prepositional intraference" in Educated Nigerian English (ENE) with a view to establishing why and how Nigerians produce prepositional intraference variations and how the variations distinguish ENE morphosyntax from native English morphosyntax, particularly Standard British English (SBE).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Duncan, Janine; Duncan, Daniel – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2014
As demographics in the United States shift, family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals must be prepared to foster healthy communities that embrace multilingual families. Because hegemonic language ideologies challenge multilingual families, FCS professionals need to know how to inclusively reframe communities to honor multilingual families.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Literacy, Consumer Science, Sociolinguistics
Pérez-Milans, Miguel – Language Policy, 2015
As the Council of Europe is shifting its traditional focus on learning European languages towards emphasizing the importance of speaking other languages of the wider world, an increasing number of schools are offering Mandarin as part of their official curriculum in the United Kingdom. This is being financially supported by…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
Tandon, Madhavi; Viesca, Kara Mitchell; Hueston, Colin; Milbourn, Tamara – Bilingual Research Journal, 2017
This qualitative study examined data from 36 teacher candidates and novice teachers to explore their perceptions and understandings of linguistic responsiveness. The findings illustrate the challenge of demonstrating linguistically responsive teaching practices in the early and initial stages of entering the teaching profession, and more research…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Beginning Teachers