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Amanda Huensch – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study explored the effect of speaking task on midclause pausing characteristics in the L1 and L2 speech of the same speakers to gain further insights into the potential relationship between pause location and stages of speech production. Participants included English L1 learners of L2 French (n = 29) or Spanish (n = 27) from the publicly…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Speech, English
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Kevin M. Wong; Erina Iwasaki; Carol Benson; Dak Lhagyal – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Based on our impression of a tremendous increase in research in L1-based multilingual education (MLE) worldwide in recent years, our small team of multilingual, multicultural researchers began a stocktaking project in 2017. Our aim was to create an open-access, searchable database of annotated references to research on policy and practice in the…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Educational Research, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Erika Lynn Exton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Code-switching (switching between languages) is a common linguistic behavior in bilingual speech directed to infants and children. In adult-directed speech (ADS), acoustic-phonetic properties of one language may transfer to the other language close to a code-switch point; for example, English stop consonants may be more Spanish-like near a switch.…
Descriptors: Cues, Acoustics, Code Switching (Language), Listening
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Kenric B. Ware – Journal of International Students, 2023
International pharmacy students enhance the healthcare landscape through unique vantage points and diverse communication abilities. Their impact actualizes beyond pharmacy settings into community service arenas. This paper describes a collaboration between international pharmacy students and a statewide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) needs…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Khalid Laanani; Said Fathi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
Today, the power of discourse is incontestable. Within the field of language policy and planning (LPP), language policy (LP) has been conceptualized in various ways. One paradigmshifting conceptualization is viewing LP as "discourse." The discursive power of language policies is quite real as it can be contested in official state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Second Language Instruction, Official Languages
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Andrea Horbach; Joey Pehlke; Ronja Laarmann-Quante; Yuning Ding – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2024
This paper investigates crosslingual content scoring, a scenario where scoring models trained on learner data in one language are applied to data in a different language. We analyze data in five different languages (Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish) collected for three prompts of the established English ASAP content scoring dataset. We…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Scoring, Learning Analytics, Chinese
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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In the current study, we examined the role of first-language (L1) influence on the additional-language development of grammatical gender marking in Spanish. The participants were L1 speakers of English or French (N = 215), who were learning Spanish and who were at three instructional levels. The data came from their use of gender marking in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, English, French
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Johanne Belmon; Magali Noyer-Martin; Sandra Jhean-Larose – First Language, 2024
The relationship between emotion and language in children is an emerging field of research. To carry out this type of study, researchers need to precisely manipulate the emotional parameters of the words in their experimental material. However, the number of affective norms for words in this population is still limited. To fill this gap, the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Correlation, Emotional Response
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Feltrero, Roberto; Hernando, Saeta; Ionescu, Adina – American Journal of Distance Education, 2023
Digital interactive games are more than tools for entertainment and can be used as learning and training environments. This approach is giving rise to what is known as serious games. "YouVerify!" European project has developed a serious game called "BotBusters" to help young people cultivate the know-how to identify manipulated…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Strategies, Media Literacy, Learner Engagement
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Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explored the communication strategies of college students majoring in one of five modern foreign languages (i.e., English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish) and their relation to communication confidence. It also explored the association between their strategy use and the difficulty regarding the speaking components, and students'…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Universities, Chinese
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Tino Endres; Lisa Bender; Stoo Sepp; Shirong Zhang; Louise David; Melanie Trypke; Dwayne Lieck; Juliette C. Désiron; Johanna Bohm; Sophia Weissgerber; Juan Cristobal Castro-Alonso; Fred Paas – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Assessing cognitive demand is crucial for research on self-regulated learning; however, discrepancies in translating essential concepts across languages can hinder the comparison of research findings. Different languages often emphasize various components and interpret certain constructs differently. This paper aims to develop a translingual set…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Metacognition, Translation
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Mikel Gartziarena; Beñat Olave – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present research focuses on studying teachers' beliefs about the complexity of learning the curricular languages in the Basque Country, with special focus on Basque, the minority language. The study adopts a mixed-methods research design. For the quantitative data, 1093 participants completed a specifically designed online questionnaire, which…
Descriptors: Languages, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Difficulty Level
Botarleanu, Robert-Mihai; Dascalu, Mihai; Watanabe, Micah; McNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to objectively quantify the complexity of a text can be a useful indicator of how likely learners of a given level will comprehend it. Before creating more complex models of assessing text difficulty, the basic building block of a text consists of words and, inherently, its overall difficulty is greatly influenced by the complexity of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Acquisition, Age, Models
Fransheska Arias Reyes; Ivanna Tavarez Vasquez; Pedro Tavárez DaCosta – Online Submission, 2025
Our country, which is today the Dominican Republic, is a Spanish speaking country due to the historical and well known fact that the then Hispaniola Island or Santo Domingo was split into two different colonies by effect of the Aranjuez Treaty (1777), held between the two Colonial Metropolis of Spain and France thus establishing the French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
William G. Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To date, most classroom-based research into the learning of a third language (L3) in the US has examined patterns of acquisition among various groups of bilinguals. Situated mainly within the context of "Portuguese for Spanish Speakers" (PSS), studies typically group learners based on the sequence / age of onset of their main background…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Portuguese
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