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Ethnography of Language Planning and Policy
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Hornberger, Nancy H.; Tapia, Aldo Anzures; Hanks, David H.; Dueñas, Frances Kvietok – Language Teaching, 2018
A decade ago, Hornberger & Johnson proposed that the ethnography of language planning and policy (ELPP) offers a useful way to understand how people create, interpret, and at times resist language policy and planning (LPP). They envisioned ethnographic investigation of layered LPP ideological and implementational spaces, taking up Hornberger's…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
The Trends and Developments of L2 Japanese Research in the 2010s
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Mori, Yoshiko; Hasegawa, Atsushi; Mori, Junko – Language Teaching, 2021
This article updates the trends and developments of Japanese as a second language (JSL) research since Mori and Mori (2011) by reviewing nearly 200 selected empirical studies published in English or Japanese between 2010 and early 2019. The first section of this review examines the cognitive aspects of second language (L2) Japanese development,…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Japanese
Report on BAAL "Language in Africa" SIG Meetings Reading in African Languages: Developing Literacies and Reading Methodologies
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Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary – Language Teaching, 2015
This report describes ongoing research on reading in African languages. It draws mainly on contributions from two British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) "Language in Africa" (LiA) Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings: the LiA SIG strand at BAAL 2013 and the seminar on "Reading Methodologies in African Languages"…
Descriptors: African Languages, Meetings, Conferences (Gatherings), Seminars
Review of Selected Research in Applied Linguistics Published in Australia (2008-2014)
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Oliver, Rhonda; Chen, Honglin; Moore, Stephen – Language Teaching, 2016
This article reviews the significant and diverse range of research in applied linguistics published in Australia in the period 2008-2014. Whilst acknowledging that a great deal of research by Australian scholars has been published internationally during these seven years, this review is based on books, journal articles, and conference proceedings…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Periodicals, English (Second Language)
A Country in Focus: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in Germany--A Review of Empirical Research Literature from 2005 to 2010
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Finkbeiner, Claudia; Olson, Agnes Madeleine; Friedrich, Jennifer – Language Teaching, 2013
This article reviews the empirical research literature on foreign language (FL) learning and teaching published between 2005 and 2010 in Germany. It focuses on the empirical studies that have attracted the greatest interest among researchers during this period of time. These include research on educational standards, teacher education, early FL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Research
Second Language Acquisition by Low-Literate Learners: An Understudied Population
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Tarone, Elaine – Language Teaching, 2010
Many adolescent and adult L2 learners in language classrooms, both in the US and other countries, have little or no alphabetic print literacy. Language teachers may turn to SLA research for assistance, yet almost all research on oral SLA has focused on educated, highly-literate learners (Bigelow & Tarone 2004; Tarone, Bigelow & Hansen 2009). The…
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Experimental Psychology
Research in the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
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Kim, Youn-Hee; Kohls, Robert; Chun, Christian W. – Language Teaching, 2009
The Modern Language Centre addresses a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical issues related to second and minority language teaching and learning. Since its foundation in 1968, the quality and range of the Centre's graduate studies programs, research, and development projects and field and dissemination services have brought it both national…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Literacy