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Oihana Leonet; Eider Saragueta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Although translanguaging has become a central issue in the multilingual education literature, research on pedagogical translanguaging practices remains underdeveloped. This article describes a study of 72 primary school students (age = 10.68) who participated in an intervention based on translanguaging pedagogies. During the intervention, the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Intervention, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Manuel-Oronich, Ruben; Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma; Tudela-Isanta, Anna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
While research on motivation has attracted a great deal of attention in relationship with L2 success, studies dealing with motivation on Languages Other than English and, particularly, on regional languages is scarce [Dörnyei, Z., & Al-Hoorie, A. H. (2017). The motivational foundation of learning languages other than global English:…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Oihana Leonet; Eider Saragueta; Eli. Arocena – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
The objective of the study is to explore the possibilities of pedagogical translanguaging as a strategy to develop critical language awareness among a group of primary school students from the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The study is part of a broader ethnographically based research project, which was developed over two school years in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Calzada, Asier; García Mayo, María del Pilar – Language Awareness, 2021
Collaborative writing tasks have been claimed to offer language learning opportunities because they implicitly draw learners' attention to form. Nevertheless, their efficacy has been claimed to be moderated by proficiency, as low proficiency learners tend to override form over meaning. These claims, however, are mostly based on adult learners and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Task Analysis, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Cenoz, Jasone; Leonet, Oihana; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article is on pedagogical translanguaging, understood as planned instructional strategies used with a pedagogical purpose in a multilingual educational context. The paper reports a study on cognate identification and cognate awareness carried out in a multilingual primary school. The study aims at analyzing whether the identification of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Fernández-Michels, Pedro; Fornons, Laia Canals – JALT CALL Journal, 2021
Online language learning environments where asynchronous communication is the main form of relation between learners and teachers require learners to use self-regulatory skills that help them control their learning process and compensate for the lack of interaction with their teachers (Fernández-Toro & Furnborough, 2014; Fernández-Toro &…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Metacognition, Second Language Learning
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Schwieter, John W.; Ferreira, Aline; Miller, Paul Chamness – Intercultural Education, 2018
English-speaking learners of L2 Spanish who were taking part in a four-week study abroad program in Spain and Japanese-speaking learners of L2 English who were individually studying in year-long abroad experiences participated in the present study. Quantitative and qualitative data from language questionnaires and contact profiles along with…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Lasagabaster, David; Doiz, Aintzane – Language Awareness, 2016
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become a very popular approach in the belief that it may help to improve students' foreign language proficiency. Although some research has been conducted, there is a dearth of longitudinal studies on students' awareness of their language learning process in CLIL programmes. In this paper, 221…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Longitudinal Studies
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Roothooft, Hanne; Breeze, Ruth – Language Awareness, 2016
A relatively small number of studies on beliefs about oral corrective feedback (CF) have uncovered a mismatch between teachers' and students' attitudes which is potentially harmful to the language learning process, not only because students may become demotivated when their expectations are not met, but also because teachers appear to be reluctant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Oral Language
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Muñoz, Carmen – Language Awareness, 2014
The present study explores young learners' awareness of foreign language learning and of their learning conditions. The participants were 76 Catalan-Spanish children who were learning English at primary school. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal data were collected by means of two different interviews that contained questions related to pupils'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Ibarraran, Amaia; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel – Language Awareness, 2008
Spain took in more immigrants than any other European country in 2005, a fact which has had a clear impact on the education system. This paper examines the language attitudes held by 125 local or autochtonous (42.4%) and immigrant (57.6%) students in the Basque Country. The results showed that both groups of students held rather negative attitudes…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Negative Attitudes