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Task-Based Instruction with the Digital Game "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" in Low-Proficiency Russian Language Classrooms: Game Affordances, Speaking Outcomes, and Learner Attitudes
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Aaron Jakob Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students studying in beginning level foreign language classrooms often lack the opportunity to speak spontaneously (Kogan, 2023). Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is a pedagogical approach to language instruction that advocates for the use of tasks to develop learners' second/foreign language (L2) abilities. Games can act as tasks that prepare…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Multilingual Identity Development and Negotiation Amongst Heritage Language Learners: A Study of East European-American Schoolchildren in the United States
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Seals, Corinne A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Previous research in the field of heritage language (HL) acquisition has focused on the connection between frequency of language use and HL speakers' connection to and maintenance of their HL. This dissertation introduces the concept of positioning through discourse into the study of HLs to show evidence that while frequency of HL use contributes…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Ethnography, Rural Areas