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Xu, Jinyue – Online Submission, 2022
While anime is well-recognized as a significant motivator of Japanese language learners today, idol fandom, though served as an equally strong source of motivation for some learners, receives far less academic attention. This paper is a preliminary exploration of idol fandom's role in fueling the Japanese language-learning process. Through…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Fiction
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Liu, Yi-Fen – HOW, 2022
Within the field of TESOL, language teacher identity (LTI) has been the focus of a myriad of studies in the previous two decades. Researchers need to trace back in order to move forward, it is an essential step towards a comprehensive understanding of what has been done in LTI research. This review article provides an overall literature review on…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thoma, Nadja – Language and Education, 2022
Universities represent spaces where language ideologies are taken up, modified, and transformed. The monolingual orientation of most universities contributes to the (re)construction of inequalities between students perceived as "native speakers" and others labelled as "non-natives". Therefore, language ideologies can be a…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Language Minorities, Sociolinguistics
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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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Akmal, Hilmi; Syahriyani, Alfi; Handayani, Tuty – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aims to investigate the differences in the realization of request speech act between the IEL (Indonesian English Learners) and the AES (Australian English-Native Speakers), as well as explain the factors influencing these distinctions. The descriptive-qualitative method and discourse completion task (DCT) were used to obtain data in…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cross Cultural Studies, Semantics, Task Analysis
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Ma, Wenyue; Winke, Paula – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The factors that influence rater scoring have been a subject of great interest to researchers in second language assessment. However, the research on the impact of test-takers' speech profiles (e.g., a jagged or a flat profile reflecting analytic subscores) on raters' scoring behaviors remains to be seen. To investigate the role of speech profiles…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Profiles
Chary-Sy Tanya Copeland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Second language acquisition has been observed to be variable in its outcome such that, unlike native speakers, all second language learners do not achieve total success. Second language acquisition is made of macro and micro processes. External and internal (e.g., age, individual differences) factors are assumed to affect language processing in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Slimane-Mahdad, Hynd Kaid – Arab World English Journal, 2019
The present article aims at serving as a reference work in the field of sociolinguistics. It also provides a concise summary of the sociolinguistic situation in an Algerian stereotyped speech community named Tlemcen. In addition, it sheds light on the status of its dialect, which most people consider as one of the most distinguished and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Self Concept, Sociolinguistics, Stereotypes
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Lin, Xi – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2019
The number of adult learners is growing rapidly in the US institutions, and these learners have become an important student population in colleges. Therefore, it is important to understand their learning strategies in order to better assist them to achieve academic goals. Meanwhile, US institutions have dramatically increased the number of…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Strategies, Adults, Graduate Students
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Rayaa, Bachir Mahyub – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Arabic-Spanish simultaneous interpreting (AR-SP SI) in Spain and the Arab world is, on the whole, carried out by native Arabic speakers. Specifically, 87.5% of AR-SP SI interpreters in Spain have Arabic as A language and Spanish as language B. Given this peculiarity, for this linguistic combination it was interesting, as well as novel, to analyse…
Descriptors: Spanish, Semitic Languages, Translation, Native Speakers
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Kartushina, Natalia; Martin, Clara D. – Language Learning, 2019
Compared to low-variability training, high-variability training leads to better learning outcomes and supports generalization of learning. However, it is unclear whether the learning advantage is driven by multiple talkers or by enhanced acoustic variability across target sounds. The current study addressed this issue in nonnative production…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Phonemics, French
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Comeaux, Ian; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 2018
Visual input enhancement (VIE) increases the salience of grammatical forms, potentially facilitating acquisition through attention mechanisms. Native English speakers were exposed to an artificial language containing four linguistic cues (verb agreement, case marking, animacy, word order), with morphological cues either unmarked, marked in the…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Grammar, Native Speakers, English
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Akbas, Erdem; Hardman, Jan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
From a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, this paper reports on the findings of an exploratory study examining the features of the academic texts produced by three groups of postgraduates: native speakers of Turkish (TL1), English (EL1) and Turkish speakers of English (EL2). To this end, the study involves a microdiscourse analysis…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Discourse, Turkish, Foreign Countries
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Newman, Rochelle S.; Morini, Giovanna; Kozlovsky, Penina; Panza, Sabrina – Language Learning and Development, 2018
Prior work demonstrated that toddlers can learn words from a speaker with a foreign accent and generalize that learning to the native accent when the accented variation does not cross phoneme boundaries. The current study explores the situation in which a vowel in the foreign accent is produced such that it could be confused with a different…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Speech Impairments, Dialects, Pronunciation
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Dogan, Fatma Seyma; Yagiz, Oktay; Kaçar, Isil Günseli – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2018
This study investigates the types of citation transformation preferred by both English L1 (native language) writers and Turkish writers who use English as a foreign language (L2). The corpus consists of 34 theses, 17 of which are Turkish writers' theses in English language including 10 M.A. and 7 PhD theses and 17 English L1 writers' theses…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Masters Theses, Doctoral Dissertations, English (Second Language)
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