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Weekly, Robert – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
The author reports on a qualitative investigation of the language attitudes of multilingual British South Asian English language teachers. Data are drawn from both interviews and focus groups to demonstrate the participants underlying conception of language and their awareness and attitudes toward Indian English and how they coalesce their…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Asians, Indians
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Ahn, So-Yeon – Language Awareness, 2016
The present study explores Korean students' demonstration of language awareness through their engagement in language play. Grounded in the understanding of the relationship between language play and an "engagement with language" (EWL) perspective, this ethnographic and discourse analytic study investigates how Korean students aged 11-15…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
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Cheng, Tsui-Ping – Language Awareness, 2016
This study draws on conversation analysis to explore the pedagogical possibility of using audiovisual depictions of authentic disagreement sequences from L2 interactions as sources for an awareness-raising activity in an English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Video excerpts of disagreement sequences collected from two ESL classes were used…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Kim, Jung Sook – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Diversity is valued and promoted in contemporary public discourse, but on the other hand, there is a strong tendency to homogenize differences in society. The tension between diversity and homogeneity is palpable on U.S. college campuses as the number of international students has been ever-increasing. A more nuanced approach is needed to grapple…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kobayashi, Yuichiro; Abe, Mariko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of learners' L1s and proficiency levels on their written production. This study also examined the influence of speech upon their writing. The following research questions were explored: (a) How do L1 and proficiency levels of learners affect their degrees of register awareness? (b)…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bae, So Hee – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This paper discusses the complex and competing language ideologies that Korean educational migrant families in Singapore hold about the normativity and legitimacy of English language varieties. During their educational migration in Singapore, Korean families show ambivalent attitudes toward the local variety of English in Singapore, Singlish.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Immigrants, Asians, English (Second Language)