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Chang Liu; Meihua Chen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study employs a mixed-methods design to explore the attitudes and expressed beliefs of Chinese postgraduate students regarding the strategic use of their entire range of languages in English academic writing (EAW). The survey findings suggest that while students generally accept the idea of mixing languages during the writing process, they…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Fred Dervin; Kaisa Hahl – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper addresses 'distractions' in the way English language education is discussed and practiced in one of the most debated systems of education in the world today: Finnish primary education. Distractions are considered as 'makers of disturbance' in educational ideologies by the authors. Examining the 2014 National Core Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), National Curriculum
Reasons to Learn a Minoritised Language: The Case of Migrant New Speakers of Welsh in Cardiff, Wales
Ka Long Tung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This paper explores the reasons for migrant new speakers of Welsh in Cardiff to learn the language given that English is the main communication medium in everyday life. From interviews with 10 migrant new speakers of Welsh and their language diaries, this paper shows that migrant new speakers were interested in accessing the Welsh culture and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Minorities, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
Pilar Ordóñez--López – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
The impact of attitudes on the learning process and on the academic results achieved by students has been the object of numerous studies, which have shown a connection between attitudes and learning. Similarly, the impact of students' attitudes towards learning a foreign language (mainly English) has been explored from a wide range of…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Akif Çal; Tessa Mearns; Wilfried Admiraal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2025
This study aims to explore to what extent engineering students' perceptions of the role of English in the workplace are affected by their internship and field of study. Previous research revealed that employers value engineers' English communication skills highly. However, mismatches between workplace expectations and engineers' competencies…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Language Role
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
Diego Ortega-Auquilla; Ligia Fernanda Espinosa-Cevallos; Sandy T. Soto; Andrés Bonilla Marchán – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
The study was aimed at determining the essential factors that motivate Ecuadorian university students' English learning. The study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods design by means of the administration of online questionnaires to 2077 students and 109 English instructors. The initial quantitative study results were further explained…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Md Abu Nayeem; Abdul Alim; Mohammod Moninoor Roshid – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
Learning English as a foreign language (EFL) beyond the classroom is challenging in non-native English-speaking developing countries with limited resources. However, learning English beyond the classroom occurs in an informal way to support language learning for many autonomous or independent adult learners. This paper explores the habit of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes
Lina Sun – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study navigates the constructive role of English as a foreign language (EFL) as a critical intercultural discourse of locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship through which teachers in Chinese educational context act as agents of action and social change. Based on a critical discourse analysis of learner diary entries, the study traces…
Descriptors: Diaries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sujeewa Hettiarachchi; Chitra Jayathilake; Sujeeva Sebastian Pereira – Discover Education, 2025
This qualitative study uses deductive thematic analysis to examine the L2 motivation of social science lecturers working in English Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts at selected Sri Lankan universities. Drawing on Dörnyei's (Dörnyei in The psychology of the language learner, Routledge, London, 2005) L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) as its…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ali Fuad Selvi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Despite the recent proliferation of Global Englishes courses both quantitatively (in terms of the number of programs offered worldwide) and qualitatively (in various sizes, forms, modes, and modalities), large-scale systematic investigations across various contexts are conspicuously underrepresented within the existing body of literature.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pedro Tavarez DaCosta; Ivanna Tavarez Vásquez; Francheska Arias Reyes – Online Submission, 2025
The present work is a historical/linguistic account of an unprecedented fact regarding the existence of two English Speaking Communities [British English and American English], in our country the Dominican Republic, where Spanish is the official and most used language, to the extent of being considered a monolingual nation or country. It is…
Descriptors: Language Variation, North American English, English, Spanish
Mirza Muhammad Zubair Baig – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
The historical Hindi-Urdu language strife intensified after the Indian 'Mutiny' in 1857 played a pivotal role in shaping the two-nation theory, culminating in the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Under English colonial rule, English language education became synonymous with power and job opportunities, creating divisions within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning