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Kaveh, Yalda M.; Sandoval, Jorge – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Schools in the United States have historically conducted language policing in favor of standardized American English. The current study examines links between language policies in eight immigrant families in relation to educational language policies of two public elementary schools operating under an English-only policy in Massachusetts. The study…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Parrish, Abigail – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper considers the languages on offer in secondary schools in England and the possibility of enacting curriculum change with a view to reducing the dominance of French, Spanish and, to a lesser extent, German as a possible way to increase take-up of modern foreign languages post-14. Questionnaires were completed by 666 students aged 14-15,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning
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McGregor, Meredith – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This article reports on part of a mixed-methods study framed by sociocultural theory and aimed at assessing the impact of an intervention to promote metalinguistic awareness in language study abroad sojourners. Participants utilized a social media platform as a space to develop personalized e-portfolios for the purpose of in-depth metalinguistic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Study Abroad, Mentors, Computer Mediated Communication
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Zhang, Xiaowan; Winke, Paula; Clark, Shaunna – Language Learning, 2020
Answering calls to map college-level proficiency development (Modern Language Association, 2007) and longitudinally chart language learning (Barkaoui, 2014; Ortega & Byrnes, 2008), we mapped the oral proficiency growth of 1,922 lower-division college students of Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish (in the second, third, or fourth semester of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, College Second Language Programs, College Students
Mein, Erika; Esquinca, Alberto; Monarrez, Angelica; Saldaña, Claudia – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
This study draws on sociocultural perspectives of identity to understand the ways in which Mexican-origin undergraduate students are recruited into the "figured world" of engineering. The analysis of in-depth, ethnographically situated interviews with 14 participants revealed three sets of recurrent discourses in students' accounts of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mexican Americans, Engineering Education, Occupational Aspiration
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Larson, Kajsa C. – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2017
University professors use film as a medium to examine social issues, although little is known about the tangible effects that socially minded films have on viewers. This study examined how combining film studies with a philanthropy project was beneficial to students' understanding of global social concerns. Survey data showed that with this…
Descriptors: Films, Film Study, Learner Engagement, Citizenship Education
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Bachelor, Jeremy W. – Online Submission, 2022
Learners of a second language often have limited access to the native culture of that language in an authentic way, resulting in them committing linguistic and intercultural mistakes. One of the main advantages of task-based learning is that it can expose students to real-world circumstances, which makes learning a language more meaningful and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Role Playing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lenkaitis, Chesla Ann; Loranc-Paszylk, Barbara – Language Teaching Research, 2021
This article investigates how engaging students to discuss topics that reflect their ideologies in lingua franca (LF) virtual exchanges can help facilitate global citizenship development. A six-week virtual exchange is explored with students from universities in Mexico, Poland, Spain, and the USA. This study utilizes five key elements of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Usage, Computer Mediated Communication, Citizenship Education
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Briceño, Allison – Reading Psychology, 2021
This study integrated reading and bilingual theories to examine the reading behaviors of second grade Latinx students in a Dual Language program. It explored how the students' differing language backgrounds (simultaneous bilinguals and sequential bilinguals who had developed Spanish as a home language) might influence their early reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs
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Talaván, Noa; Ávila-Cabrera, José Javier – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
This article presents the SONAR project ("Subtitulación sOcial para proporcioNar Accesibilidad audiovisual en la univeRsidad" [SOcial subtitliNg to provide Audiovisual accessibility at the univeRsity]). Conducted to assess the validity of the creation of social subtitling networks, its ultimate goal is to better understand the role that…
Descriptors: Translation, Visual Aids, Program Descriptions, Social Networks
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Acosta, Karen – Dimension, 2019
This study identified the reading comprehension strategies that English-speaking college students enrolled in beginner, intermediate, and advanced Spanish language classes at a major Midwestern university in the United States used to comprehend a text in their second language. The findings suggest that readers tended to use the same comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Spanish, Native Language
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Strickland, Brandee Marie – Language Learning Journal, 2019
In this article, I explore practical implications of the theories of language of M.M. Bakhtin within university second language writing classrooms. Specifically, I examine the presence of Bakhtinian intertextuality within online intercultural exchanges involving the use of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) technology. I describe a CMC exchange…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication, Writing Processes
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Torres, Kelly M.; Arrastia, Meagan Caridad; Tackett, Samantha – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2019
The structure and instruction of foreign language classrooms have changed to meet the needs of the growing number of Hispanic heritage language learners (HLLs) entering university settings. To understand the impact of these reforms, interviews were conducted with 11 HLLs about their experiences in Spanish classrooms designed for their unique…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Brick, Billy; Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Coventry University Institution Wide Language Programme (IWLP) offers beginners language learning modules to approximately 3,000 students. Each module is taught over 11 weeks for a total of one hour and 40 minutes and two of the weeks are used for in class tests, so tutors generally agree that students need to practise their skills outside the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
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Nagle, Charles – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This study examined relationships between language learning motivation and the longitudinal development of second language (L2) pronunciation. Twenty-six English-speaking learners of Spanish recorded a simplified picture description task 5 times over a year-long period spanning their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semesters of Spanish language instruction.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation
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