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Shi, Lijuan; Rolstad, Kellie – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
This study reports findings from a discursive analysis, informed by discursive psychology (DP), of 43 preservice teachers' 685 written reflections related to critical language awareness (CLA). The findings highlight the discursive features preservice teachers employed to construct their CLA. Three major patterns of discursive changes were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Bodomo, Adams; Che, Dewei; Dong, Hongjie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source…
Descriptors: Retailing, African Culture, Immigrants, Metropolitan Areas
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Evripidou, Dimitris – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Post-structuralist theories of language and gender have become increasingly attractive to language learning researchers. However, masculinity, as part of a socially and culturally constructed system, in relation to English language learning has rarely been investigated. The current study examines how male English language learners negotiate their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Greek, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tocalo, Abdul Wahid I.; Racman, Shainah P.; Guiamelon, Kyla Nicole Alibai G.; Mama, Bainarin M. – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
The observation of informalities in academic writing has become tremendous in recent years, as revealed by a plethora of cross-cultural and diachronic studies. Different users of English have already been explored; however, none has centered on the case of English as a Second Language (henceforth ESL) writers, such as Filipino academic writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Geçkinli, Fikri – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
English has become the international language as a result of globalization. And English's status has already begun to have an impact on English language education. As a result of these changes in the language, it is vital to figure out whether there has been a paradigm shift in how EFL teachers and students think about it. The goal of this study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2022
This article reports on the second language (L2) perception of contrasts among British English monophthongs. This study has two aims: 1) to explore the discriminability of contrasts in L2 British English monophthongs; and 2) to test the perceptual assimilation model-L2 (PAM-L2) towards the ability to discriminate British English contrasts. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Callen, M. Cole; Miller, Karen – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Research in language development has only recently begun to focus on the inherent variability of language. Previous studies have explored at what age children begin to produce variable linguistic forms and how these forms progress through development. While children produce adult-like variation early on, some variable forms take longer to acquire…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Acquisition, Parent Child Relationship, Syntax
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Aoyama, Ryosuke; Denton, Lucas – TESL-EJ, 2022
This paper reports on teacher research which explored the practicality and potential of World Englishes (WE)-informed pedagogy in the Japanese secondary education context. Based on qualitative data from written reflections and post-unit individual interviews with seven high school students in Japan, this paper presents students' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ashley Lenz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined and compared language ideologies and attitudes among dual language program (Spanish-English) graduates regarding their use of Spanish and perceptions of their bilingual education experience through surveys and semi-structured interviews. Drawing from the theory of ideology, data was analyzed using both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes, Bilingual Education Programs
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Bilas, Andriy – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the problems of colloquial interrogative sentences having the function features in the source and target fiction texts. The importance of the research of interrogative sentences is defined by frequent use of questioning in the process of communication and a close connection of the problem of questioning with other…
Descriptors: French, Ukrainian, Translation, Figurative Language
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Fernández-Silva, Sabela – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article reports a study about the behavior and functions of term variation in research articles (RAs) in Geology and Psychology. The aim of the study was twofold: first, to investigate the role of intra-textual term variation as a device for the representation and transfer of specialized knowledge; second, to explore whether there are…
Descriptors: Geology, Psychology, Research Reports, Comparative Analysis
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Lee, Ju Seong; Drajati, Nur Arifah – ELT Journal, 2019
While previous interventional studies on English as an international language (EIL) have focused on the role of teachers, recent studies have begun viewing how students engage autonomously in informal digital learning of English (IDLE) activities that are associated with their perception of English varieties and cross-cultural communication…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Global Approach
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Han, Ligang – International Education Studies, 2019
English is clarified as a Germanic language, and it began in what is now the British-Isles. After years of development, English language has many varieties in different parts of the world. Different varieties differ in accent, vocabulary, grammar, discourse, sociolinguistics, and have its respective characteristics in pronunciation, tone,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, North American English
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French, Leif M.; Beaulieu, Suzie – Language Awareness, 2020
Research has pointed to the importance of introducing social aspects of language at the beginning stages of second language (L2) acquisition (Yates, 2017). This proof-of-concept study therefore sought to determine if an explicit pedagogical intervention consisting of various types of sociolinguistic awareness activities could be implemented with…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
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Peleg, Orna; Degani, Tamar; Raziq, Muna; Taha, Nur – Second Language Research, 2020
To isolate cross-lingual phonological effects during visual-word recognition, Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals who are native speakers of Spoken Arabic (SA) and proficient readers of both Literary Arabic (LA) and Hebrew, were asked to perform a visual lexical-decision task (LDT) in either LA (Experiment 1) or Hebrew (Experiments 2 and 3). The critical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonology, Semitic Languages, Word Recognition
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