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Tetyana Sydorenko; Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros; Elizabeth Huntley; Maribel Montero Perez – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
A substantial body of research shows that various types of audiovisual (AV) input such as videos and videos with second language (L2) subtitles can facilitate language learning. However, language teachers' day-to-day practices with regard to multimodal input is less understood. To bridge the gap in language education, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Teacher Attitudes, Video Technology, Second Language Learning
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Chavez, Monika – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2020
This study examined why current university learners of French, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese, and, for comparative purposes, actual university learners of German, believe that others and why they themselves would study German. Responses were compared against current motivation theories, narratives promoted by academic language programs, research…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Preferences, German
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Chinh Duc Nguyen; Thanh Nguyen Thao Tran; Nhu To Thi Pham; Mai Kha Ngoc Huynh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
At a meso level, families have shown an imperative role in language policy in general and language education in particular. Predicated on the theories of family language policy and a transdisciplinary framework for L2 development, this study was undertaken to explore what three generations of a family did with the foreign languages they had…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Family Relationship
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Yali Liu; Louisa Buckingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The choice of language for publishing is a topic of particular significance for scholars of languages other than English (LOTE) due to the importance of publishing in the professional language for maintaining expertise in the written academic register of the respective language. While the multilingual ability of such scholars means they can…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Academic Language, Writing for Publication, Second Languages
Feifei Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As the United States becomes ever more pluralistic and globalization makes the world more closely connected, it has never been more necessary to build an educational system that helps students grow into competent world citizens who can communicate effectively in languages other than English. Despite the growth of foreign language education in the…
Descriptors: Influences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Programs, Public Schools
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Hoang, Cuong Huu; Nguyen, Duc Chinh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Given the role of languages in disseminating knowledge, this study explored the positioning of Vietnamese researchers in relation to the foreign language they used for research. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with six participants who were researchers in social sciences. Findings revealed that senior researchers positioned…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Information Dissemination, English (Second Language)
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Kalyaniwala, Carmenne; Ciekanski, Maud – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
While research on language learner autonomy and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is abundant, few studies have sought to systematically explore the relationship between the two. By adopting a rigorous approach that identifies transparent inclusion and exclusion criteria, this paper presents a systematic review that seeks to identify: (1)…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Informal Education
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Eckerson, Janet; Jacobs, Christopher; Ghazi Saidi, Ladan; Mollenkopf, Dawn; Vu, Phu – Student Success, 2022
International students, especially those studying in English language institutes at universities in the United States, often struggle to create connections with local students and the host community. Learners of non-English languages also struggle to find opportunities to practice languages that are uncommon in the surrounding community. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English (Second Language), College Students, Community
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Shuqiong Luo; Di Zou – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
Although studies investigating online learning and teaching have proliferated recently, one area that has been underexplored is foreign language teachers' readiness to incorporate the flipped classroom into their repertoire at the K-12 level. Accordingly, the present study aims to provide an instrument to assess K-12 foreign language teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readiness, Flipped Classroom, Language Teachers
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2018
This report describes lower- and upper-level undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in summer and fall 2016 reported by 2,547 AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting colleges and universities in the United States. Between fall 2013 and fall 2016, enrollments in languages other than English fell 9.2% in colleges and…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Enrollment, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
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Chavez, Monika – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
This study explored how 296 U.S. learners of five foreign languages (FLs), including German, imagined stereotypical native speakers (NSs) and likely learners of German. Results showed that (a) when students of different languages imagined NSs of German, they emphasized different stereotypes; learners of German named the most and the most diverse…
Descriptors: German, Self Concept, Stereotypes, Native Speakers
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Reagan, Timothy – Educational Foundations, 2022
While there are many difficulties faced by world language educators, both teachers and students of certain languages--languages commonly identified with countries and cultures deemed to be hostile to the United States--often find themselves in uniquely paradoxical situations. This article begins with a brief anecdotal description of the personal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Indo European Languages
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Elena Polisca; Sascha Stollhans; Romain Bardot; Rollet, Cyrille – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This chapter examines the responses of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to assessment-related challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden move to online teaching and assessments required institutions to re-think their approaches to current practices and provide alternative solutions almost overnight. Our survey aimed to gather…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Integrity, Ethics
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Alonso-Pérez, Rosa; Sánchez-Requena, Alicia – Applied Language Learning, 2018
In the past decade, techniques traditionally used in the audiovisual translation (AVT) industry have been applied to foreign language teaching (FL) with promising results. Both teachers and researchers have provided useful data on various AVT typologies (i.e., subtitling, dubbing, audio description) to improve specific learning areas: vocabulary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Audiovisual Instruction
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González-Becerra, Iria – Language Learning Journal, 2019
This cross-sectional study provides a language learning motivational profile of undergraduates from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees taking language IWLP courses (language options open to all undergraduates) in a UK institution. Trends were generated through a questionnaire (363 participants) using self-determination…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Second Language Learning, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
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