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Fashanu, Christina; Wood, Elizabeth; Payne, Mark – English in Education, 2020
The operant "one nation -- one language" model in Western culture has resulted in linguistic hegemony being almost universally presented as an uncontentious reality. This article accepts Foucault's challenge to deconstruct this officially sanctioned "truth" by looking at how the educational system in England legitimises the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Monolingualism
Brandon F. Heimberg – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Bilingual advantage literature proposes that bilinguals perform significantly better on tasks of executive functioning when compared to monolingual individuals. This study explored the theory of the bilingual advantage when individuals were exposed to an increased cognitive load due to emotionally valenced stimuli. Due to the limited capacity of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Short Term Memory, Psychology, Monolingualism
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Song, Juyoung – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
The recent trend of the internationalization of higher education has increased the significance of English as a medium of instruction and communication on campus in non-English speaking countries. Within this context, this study explores emotional vulnerability of teachers of Korean as a second language (KSL) over their foreign language…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Harklau, Linda; Batson, Kate C. – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Remediation reform is an influential policy movement in U.S. higher education that aims to increase college completion rates. College first-year reading and writing course requirements have been a major focus of this movement, particularly prerequisite "developmental" course sequences for entering students who are deemed underprepared…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Prabjandee, Denchai; Kewara, Punwalai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
In many contexts, implementing CLIL is top-down, in which the policy is imposed on teachers to transform monolingual content classes into CLIL classrooms. This implementation brings several challenges to content teachers, who were previously trained as content specialists only. This study attempted to explore the lived experiences of these CLIL…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy
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Julie A. Panagiotopoulou; Yasemin Uçan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Studies on Family Language Policy state that the shape of family multilingualism is embedded in diverse conditions within and outside the family, like historical, social and political factors, which influence family language practices. In this regard, the monolingual orientation of early childhood education (ECE) institutions in many European…
Descriptors: Refugees, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning
Seong, Jihye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the development of the internal structure of the Korean syllable by adult Korean learners whose native language is English. Prior research has identified the prominence of the body constituent in Korean and the rime constituent in English. The current study focuses on the acquisition of the body unit by English speakers…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Siqi Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language can alter our mental conceptions of space, time, and categories. While there is compelling evidence that thought can be shaped by syntactic, morphological, and lexical features of a language, less is known about the impact of phonology on thought. This dissertation uses novel objects (alien cartoon figures) and pseudoword names in three…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Phonology, Color
Liling Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A key goal in World Language Education (WLE) is challenging learners' preconceived notions about other cultures, aligning with the leading intercultural competence models, national language teaching standards, and the emerging Transformative Language Learning and Teaching (TLLT) paradigm. However, challenging stereotypes remains a concern to…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Maxime Van Raemdonck; Robyn Tyler; Piet Van Avermaet; Wendelien Vantieghem – Language and Education, 2024
In response to the increasing linguistic diversity in educational settings resulting from migration waves into the Global North, this study delves into the beliefs of secondary teachers regarding multilingualism within predominantly monolingual policy schools in Flanders, Belgium. Despite the recognized benefits of multilingual pedagogies,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Secondary School Teachers
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Sosa, Anna V.; Bunta, Ferenc – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study investigates consonant and vowel accuracy and whole-word variability (also called "token-to-token variability" or "token-to-token inconsistency") in bilingual Spanish-English and monolingual English-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) compared to their bilingual and monolingual peers with normal…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Comparative Analysis, Phonemes, Vowels
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Buckingham, Louisa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Costa Rica attracts one of the highest numbers of migrants per capita in Latin America and it is one of the main destinations for inter-regional migrants. The impact of growing numbers of long-term migrants with a very different socio-economic (and often also linguistic) profile from the majority of local inhabitants is perceptible across various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Migrants, Ethnic Diversity
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Berendes, Karin; Wagner, Wolfgang; Meurers, Detmar; Trautwein, Ulrich – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Silent reading is the primary mode of reading for proficient readers, and therefore, silent reading fluency is often assessed in research and practice. However, little is known about the validity of the tests administered to students with different language backgrounds. Given that academic language is assumed to be especially challenging for…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Language Usage, German
DeJesus, Jasmine M.; Liberman, Zoe; Kinzler, Katherine D. – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
Babies are miraculous linguistic creatures. From an early age, they seamlessly master the language or languages in their early environment. Babies' early language-learning abilities turn out to not just be about language--they are also social in nature, orienting children to cultural in-group members. Infants and young children demonstrate…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Language Usage, Language Acquisition
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Nair, Vishnu K. K.; Biedermann, Britta; Nickels, Lyndsey – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Previous research has shown that the language-learning mechanism is affected by bilingualism resulting in a novel word learning advantage for bilingual speakers. However, less is known about the factors that might influence this advantage. This article reports an investigation of 2 factors: phonotactic probability and phonological…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, English, Phonology
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