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Qays Q. Majeed – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this evaluation was to investigate the factors that contribute to students' recruitment and retention in the Arabic program at my college. The two questions guiding this evaluation were: (1) what factors influence students to join the Arabic program at my college and (2) what factors influence students to continue to enroll in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Arabic, Second Language Learning, Enrollment
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Doucerain, Marina M. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of migrants' second language (L2) competence in naturalistic settings is a pressing concern for receiving societies. Several studies have established a positive relation between people's self-positioning with respect to the L2 ethnolinguistic group and their L2 competence, but the mechanisms…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Acculturation, Immigrants
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Aida Sedghinasab; Amir Akbarnozari – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
There has been an extensive research carried out on the role of Audio Visual Aids (AVAs) in enhancement of second language learners' engagement in the topic of the day to be covered in an educational session. This had led to the top-notch design and fruitful creation of I-TALK(movie session), which consists of movies and songs (jukeboxes, footages…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement, Films
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Maire, Quentin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The internationalisation of educational trajectories has emerged as a new form of cultural capital in education systems. Research suggests that the 'international capital' offered by language enrichment programs has become appropriated primarily by middle- and upper-class families investing in new forms of educational distinction. However, little…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Family Financial Resources
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Shum, Kathy Kar-man; Au, Terry Kit-fong; Romo, Laura F.; Jun, Sun-Ah – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Do learners of a second language (L2) need frequent contact with native speakers of that language in order to master its phonology? What if they hear audio recordings of native speakers and receive immediate corrective feedback about their perception? We used a randomized controlled experiment with 135 Chinese speakers (with English as their L2)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Error Correction
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Tahir, Ismail – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the experiential learning in listening comprehension with the focus on the implementation of the class story using language experience at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru. As the pre-experimental research, this study involved one class consisted of 27 students in the eleventh graders. However, most of the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Listening Comprehension, Grade 11, Language Enrichment
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Hamann, Edmund T.; Catalano, Theresa – Language Policy, 2021
Dual language (DL) programs propose to be vehicles of social justice and transformation by valuing an additional language other than the dominant one in a society and thereby contesting language hierarchies and the subordination of those who speak/use a non-dominant language (Flores, Flores, Educational Policy 30:13-38, 2016; Menken and García,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Social Justice, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Ruiz-Felter, Roxanna; Cooperson, Solaman J.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Peña, Elizabeth D. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Although some investigations of phonological development have found that segmental accuracy is comparable in monolingual children and their bilingual peers, there is evidence that language use affects segmental accuracy in both languages. Aims: To investigate the influence of age of first exposure to English and the amount of current…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Kindergarten, Young Children, Bilingual Students
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O'Toole, Ciara; Gatt, Daniela; Hickey, Tina M.; Miekisz, Aneta; Haman, Ewa; Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Rinker, Tanja; Ohana, Odelya; dos Santos, Christophe; Kern, Sophie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This paper compared the vocabulary size of a group of 250 bilinguals aged 24-36 months acquiring six different language pairs using an analogous tool, and attempted to identify factors that influence vocabulary sizes and ultimately place children at risk for language delay. Each research group used adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Mothers, Educational Attainment, Questionnaires
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Lau, Sunny Man Chu – New Educator, 2016
The present study, framed from a critical and transformative approach to teacher education, aims to investigate whether language portraits (Prasad, 2010)--the mapping of one's language and cultural make-up on a body template--can help improve student teachers' self-understanding about language and identities and can foster critical reflection…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Concept Mapping, Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Background