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Kai Li; Xiang Zheng; Chaoqun Ni – Research Evaluation, 2024
The preeminence of English as the lingua franca in global science has led to English-dominant publication practices, even in non-English-speaking countries. We examine the complex dynamics of language use in scientific publications in China, a major contributor to global scientific output, and the tensions between English and the native language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Language Usage
Ursula Lanvers – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
The launch of Ireland's first official language education policy Languages Connect, Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017--2026 (DES 2017) envisages wide-reaching changes for foreign language learning and teaching, both at primary and secondary sector. This study asks if the policy is equipped to address Ireland's main…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Irish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McDonough, Kim; Lindberg, Rachael; Trofimovich, Pavel; Tekin, Oguzhan – Language Teaching, 2023
This replication study seeks to extend the generalizability of an exploratory study (McDonough et al., 2019) that identified holds (i.e., temporary cessation of dynamic movement by the listener) as a reliable visual cue of non-understanding. Conversations between second language (L2) English speakers in the Corpus of English as a Lingua Franca…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics
Siqueira, Sávio – ELT Journal, 2020
Although a significant number of practitioners are being progressively exposed to English as a lingua franca (ELF) research findings and developments, we still face the challenge of bringing ELF into the ELT classroom in a more systematic way and on a regular basis. It is a fact that once EFL learners move into contexts of use outside the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Official Languages
Sugene Kim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines L2 speakers' accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Role
Fernando Senar; Judit Janés; Elisabet Serrat; Ángel Huguet – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis posits the existence of language features common to different languages. This set of characteristics, known as Common Underlying Proficiency (CUP), is a powerful facilitating agent in second language acquisition. Fluid intelligence (Gf), on the other hand, is the construct that encompasses those cognitive…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Intelligence, Language Acquisition
De Bartolo, Anna Maria – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
The present paper stems from an awareness that English has become the most widely used means of intercultural communication on a global scale. Therefore, intercultural communication is more likely to occur through English used as a lingua franca than in any other language used as a lingua franca. English has transcended boundaries and has allowed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication
Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad; Khan, Mahmood Ahmad – Online Submission, 2022
Gojri speakers, i.e., Gujjars and Bakarwals, are the relatively deprived indigenous tribal communities and groups. The hegemony of dominant languages in significant fields such as polity, judiciary, and education accentuates the exclusion of tribal and minority languages. The study relied on secondary sources and mainly focused on Gojri speakers…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages, Language Maintenance
Van Oss, Victoria; Vantieghem, Wendelien; Struys, Esli; Van Avermaet, Piet – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Whereas early childhood professionals can play a pivotal role in fostering young children's home language development, little is known about what determines the kind of multilingual parenting advice they offer families. The objective of this study was to deconstruct the processes culminating in two types of such recommendations: "advice…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Eugenio Jr. Sta. Romana De Luna – THAITESOL Journal, 2023
This mixed-method study aimed to determine Thai teachers' attitudes towards the emerging local variety of English in Thailand tentatively called Thailish (Thai English). Results of online surveys and semi-structured interviews with 60 Thai high school teachers in Bangkok revealed that they are highly aware of Thailand's emerging local variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Sakhiyya, Zulfa; Martin-Anatias, Nelly – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Indonesia is one of the most multilingual nations in the world, with approximately 700 spoken local languages. This multilingualism is at risk from the imposition of the national language and the dominance of English as an international language. Adopting a social semiotic approach to linguistic landscape study, this paper explores how languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Official Languages
Lucas Peltonen; Guangwei Hu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
Internationally operating professionals in China study business English to develop their language proficiency and transcultural communicative competence. While a variety of business English textbooks are on the market and are used in China, their conceptualizations of culture tend to be nation-based, static, and predictable -- views of culture…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Communication, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Nashaat-Sobhy, Nashwa; Sánchez-Garcia, Davinia – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2020
In this chapter we analyzed lecturers' attitudes towards using English in European Higher Education settings. Twenty-eight university teachers were brought together from thirteen universities across six European countries for an online training for teachers in English Medium Instruction (EMI) settings. The lecturers' written exchanges about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Official Languages, Language Role
Ou, Wanyu Amy; Gu, Mingyue Michelle; Hult, Francis M. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This article seeks to explore intercultural communication among a group of students with diverse linguistic and sociocultural backgrounds in an English-medium transnational university in China, focusing on multilingual students' practices and perceptions of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Informed by an expanded understanding of translanguaging…
Descriptors: Translation, Intercultural Communication, International Education, Higher Education
Warchal, Krystyna; Zakrajewski, Pawel – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Sharing research results internationally has become a hallmark of modern science. In many countries, scholars are expected to publish in journals that promise high citation scores, boosting the recognition of the authors and institutions they represent. Since most of such indexed journals are English-medium, these expectations influence the choice…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multilingual Materials, Writing for Publication, Faculty Publishing