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Wang, Ying; McBride, Catherine; Zhou, Yanling; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Farver, Jo Ann M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
How do native Chinese-speaking (CS) and non-Chinese-speaking (NCS) children learn to read and write in Chinese? In the present study, 29 CS and 34 NCS second and third graders aged 76 to 122 months (M = 93.65) participated in an experiment where they were taught 16 new Chinese characters in one of four conditions--copy, radical, phonological and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Grade 2
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Dozie, Chinomso P.; Chinedu-Oko, Chioma N.; Anyanwu, Patricia N.; Egwim, Favour O.; Otagburuagu, Emeka J. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
This article examined the Igbo native speakers' perception of request act as well as the linguistic politeness strategies used to achieve this communicative intention in their conversational English as bilinguals. The study participants were 2748 undergraduate Igbo native speakers purposively selected from different Federal and State Universities…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Native Speakers, African Languages, Undergraduate Students
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Kim, Kitaek; Schwartz, Bonnie D. – Second Language Research, 2022
In the English "tough" construction (TC), knowledge of "tough" movement is necessary for target performance (the object-interpretation only; e.g. "John is easy to see" e). The acquisition of the English TC raises a learnability problem for first-language (L1) Korean learners of English as a second language (L2): (1)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Syntax, Native Language, Korean
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Alshatti, Abdullatif – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study is an endeavour to explicate the dissonance of the linguistic quality outcome of study abroad (SA) experiences by exploring the second language (L2) motivation of six academic sojourners in Manchester. A person-in-context approach revealed that developing intimate relationships with 'native-speakers', providing L2-mediated interaction…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
Bala, Carrie Olson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to better understand the influence of educators' attention to identity construction as tenth grade Emergent Bilinguals and native English-speaking students develop mathematical, social, and epistemological empowerment in a mathematics classroom. I incorporated a framework detailing critical consciousness as a mediator…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Values Clarification, Value Judgment
Tanya Longabach – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
Barriers to accessing preventive care, and healthcare in general, include lack of language proficiency (Chang, Chan, & Han, 2015; Lebrun, 2012; Ponce et al., 2006; DeRose, Escarce, & Lurie, 2007; Jacobs, Chen, Karliner, Agger-Gupta, & Mutha, 2006), inability to afford health care (Aguilera & Massey, 2003), lack of health insurance…
Descriptors: Adults, Immigrants, Native Speakers, Access to Health Care
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Doecke, Brenton; Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid – English in Education, 2023
This essay emerges from an ongoing conversation between us while collaborating on various projects that have explored the role that English plays in people's lives. One of us is an English teacher educator from Australia, the other an EFL educator from Iran now working in Hong Kong. Our conversation prompted us to reflect on English as a medium of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Nguyen, Chinh Duc; Trent, John; Nguyen, Thao Phuong – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
This paper reports the results of a qualitative study that explores the perspectives of one group of parents on English language teachers' identity and practice in primary schools in Vietnam. Grounded in mixed identity theories (self and others), this study uses in-depth interviews to reveal how these parents position English language teachers and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tajeddin, Zia; Saeedi, Zari; Mozaffari, Hamideh – TESL-EJ, 2023
Various features of teacher instruction underpin the criteria used for the evaluation of teacher quality. The current study sought to explore whether nativeness/non-nativeness affects the criteria teachers consider for teacher quality evaluation. To this end, the participants were provided with five video clips of teaching, each presenting a…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Caring, Classroom Techniques
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Destruel, Emilie – Second Language Research, 2023
A large amount of literature exists on how native speakers derive and process pragmatic inferences, yet few studies have examined the issue in second language learners, despite a controversial debate of second language (L2) ultimate attainment of phenomena situated at external interfaces. This study contributes to the debate on the integration of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Inferences, French, Second Language Learning
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Liu, Honggang; Zhang, Xi; Fang, Fan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
With the expanding use of English around the world, it is important to understand various stakeholders' attitudes towards it from a Global Englishes (GE) perspective. The GE perspective has challenged native speakerism and recognized the multilingual nature of the English language. In particular, a GE perspective leads to the sustainable…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Maczuga, Paulina; O'Brien, Mary Grantham; Knaus, Johannes – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2017
Lexical stress assignment plays a central role in being understood in a second language. In fact, research has shown that it may be more important for the comprehensibility of second language learners' speech than, for example, grammatical correctness (Trofimovich & Isaacs, 2012). Nonetheless, its production poses challenges for second…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Lexicology, Native Speakers
Mohammad Reza Anani Sarab – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study relates to my PhD research which I undertook at the University of Leeds between 1998 and 2003 to examine classroom interaction in second/foreign language classes. The aim was to analyze teacher and student talk to find out how communication takes place between a native speaker/non-native speaker teacher and limited proficiency…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Native Speakers, Differences
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Alshammary, Maram S. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study sought to investigate the impact of using Cambly, a computer-mediated communication tool, on the speaking proficiency of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Further, it aimed to explore the participants' perceptions of using Cambly. The study employed an experimental design featuring a mixed-methods approach to data collection…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Speech Skills
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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda; Donaldson, Bryan; Carmichael, Katie – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This study aims to advance the understanding of sociolinguistic competence among near-native speakers and to further knowledge about the acquisition of variable structures. We conduct a quantitative analysis of variable future-time expression in informal conversations between near-native and native speakers of French. In addition to examining…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, French, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning
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