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Davies, Catherine E.; And Others – English for Specific Purposes, 1989
The advanced phase of the University of Florida's international teaching assistants training program extends the linguistic and pedagogical training of these assistants by concentrating on one-on-one and small group interactions with native speakers. Detailed analysis of videotaped interactions help in the development of strategies for the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)

Cenoz, Jasone; Valencia, Jose F. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1993
The role of socio-contextual and social psychological elements in second-language acquisition in bilingual settings is examined among 139 native Spanish-speaking secondary school students. Compared to a Basque-speaking control group, the Spanish-speaking students scored lower on subjective ethnolinguistic vitality, social networks, motivation, and…
Descriptors: Basque, Bilingual Schools, Comparative Analysis, Ethnolinguistics

Brosh, Hezi – Foreign Language Annals, 1993
Discusses the Arabic language and the motivation to acquire the language within the Israeli setting. Examination focuses on the judicial status of Arabic and its communicative functions within the community, linguistic policy of the Israeli political center and the status of Arabic within the educational system, and attitudes toward Arabic and its…
Descriptors: Arabic, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes

Porte, Graeme – ELT Journal, 1999
Examined how living outside native-language environments, and subsequent language attrition, affected the language model provided by native speakers teaching English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) in Spain. Surveys indicated that the first language was a changeable system susceptible to the pervasive influence of the second language and to the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Howarth, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 1998
Discusses, in the context of second-language learning, the definition of collocations in English and major approaches to linguistic description of prefabricated language. Presents data from a study comparing use of specific lexical collocations (phrases) by native speakers (based on existing language corpus) and learners of English (data drawn…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Graduate Students

Howie, Sarah J.; Pietersen, Jacques J. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2001
Focuses on the performance of South African 12th graders on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), exploring the relationship between student background and mathematics literacy. Teacher data and school background data were not available, but findings show that the most significant performance factors were home language,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Pica, Teresa – IRAL, 1996
Examines whether negotiation addresses the need of second- language (L2) learners to focus attention on L2 form. The study analyzed the utterances of negotiation produced as 20 English native speaker-nonnative speaker (NS-NNS) dyads engaged in communication tasks. Negotiation assisted the NNS needs for data on features that were possible in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection, English (Second Language)

Zhang, Shuqiang – Language Learning, 1995
Analyzes the mental organizations of two sets of fuzzy lexical items by 70 native speakers (NSs) of English and 185 learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Findings suggest that a discernible approximative pattern exists in the acquisition of ESL semantics, with the differentiation of certain words acquired before the differentiation of…
Descriptors: College Students, Control Groups, English (Second Language), Experimental Groups
Berman, Robert; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2001
An English for academic purposes needs survey conducted at a Canadian university among first-year Bachelor's and Master's level students reveals native speakers (NS) and nonnative speakers (NNS) of English perceive that the language skills necessary for academic study are of different levels of difficulty. English language difficulties appear to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)

Crandall, JoAnn (Jodi) – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2000
Discusses how language teacher education has shifted to constructivist, process-oriented theories of learning; the idea that teacher education programs have failed to prepare teachers for the classroom; the importance of teachers' prior experiences; and the concern that teaching be viewed as a profession where teachers have an active role in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Beliefs, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development

Kottman, Karl – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1999
Highlights the history of Californian (Luiseno), the native language of Baja California, including how the language was recorded by a young Mexican student at the Vatican's missionary school, the Collegium Urbanum in Rome. Discusses the political impact of the grammatical recording and subsequent translation of the language during the mid-19th…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries
Fukuchi, Naoko Tani; Sakamoto, Robin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
As learner-centred approaches are gaining popularity in many language classrooms, the affective dimensions of learners and the interaction effects of learners and teachers have become an important theme for research and assessment. This paper explores how Japanese learners of English as a foreign language evolve in two geographically distinct…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
Camiciottoli, Belinda Crawford – English for Specific Purposes, 2005
It is widely known that L2 audiences continue to experience comprehension difficulties when listening to content lectures in English, regardless of proficiency level. For this reason, NS lecturers should be aware of potential obstacles to comprehension and the need to make appropriate adjustments. In order to understand how such adjustments may be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Audiences, Native Speakers, Lecture Method
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Siegel, Linda S. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Patterns of reading development were examined in native English-speaking (L1) children and children who spoke English as a second language (ESL). Participants were 978 (790 L1 speakers and 188 ESL speakers) Grade 2 children involved in a longitudinal study that began in kindergarten. In kindergarten and Grade 2, participants completed standardized…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Beginning Reading
Luk, Jasmine C. M.; Lin, Angel M. Y. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This book is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities as…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Learning Motivation