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Guan-Yu Lin; Ciao-Chun Jhang; Yi-Shun Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The use of AI-based social robots has been shown to be beneficial for learning English as a Second Language (ESL). Not much is known, however, about the drivers of parental intention to use those robots in support of their children's ESL learning. This study aims to explore the factors that drive parental intention to adopt AI-based social robots…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Artificial Intelligence
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Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
Hasan Alshuhri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored the language ideologies of Saudi cosmopolitan parents living in Western countries, their family language policies, and their children's reintegration into Saudi society. I used a qualitative research design to investigate the process of family language policies and practices and the underlying social, cultural, and religious…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Arabs, Parent Attitudes, Language Usage
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Tae-Young Kim – English Teaching, 2025
This qualitative study examines amotivation in South Korean EFL students through the lens of activity theory. Using semi-structured interviews, data were collected from six elementary and secondary school students, aged 10 to 16 years (Grades 4 to 10), to explore key psychological constructs, including the ideal L2 self, the ought-to L2 self, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
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Mary M. Jacobs – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
Families engage in a range of cultural practices in their everyday lives that shape children's early literacies. Given the growing number of children who are living outside the country of their birth or their parents' birth, more research is needed to highlight the under-recognised literacies of young children shaped by their family cultural…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Preschool Children, Photography, Cultural Maintenance
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Sumi Kim; Janina Brutt-Griffler – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
This study examines how a high-pressure family language policy (FLP) is implemented in South Korea, focusing on the experiences of a family with a preschool-aged child, Jay. The phenomenon of "English fever," which has led to the widespread adoption of intensive early childhood English education, has contributed to the increasing…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Watson, Edward – Education and Urban Society, 2022
Dual language immersion programs are growing in popularity across America. This article examines the explanations middle-class parents of various racial/ethnic backgrounds give for enrolling their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs. The author addresses the following questions: Why do American parents enroll their children in Mandarin…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese
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Ann E. Roemer – Language and Education, 2024
This research, conducted at a major university in Tanzania, investigated the personal experiences of multilingual students vis-à-vis the government's language policy requiring Swahili as the language of instruction (LoI) at the primary level and English at the secondary level. The participants, who spoke 25 different languages as their L1, were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, African Languages, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Anneleis Humphries; Catherine Smith; Julie Choi – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia face numerous barriers to successful tertiary education. One key challenge is developing critical literacy skills beyond basic language proficiency. Critical literacy empowers students to understand power relations, critique underlying assumptions and explore issues of belonging -- factors crucial…
Descriptors: Refugees, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peter J. Guarnaccia – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college. A revitalized anthropological understanding of acculturation provides the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Immigration, Student Diversity, Higher Education, Research Universities
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Olaug Strand – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The "optimism hypothesis" claims that immigrant students do better in the Norwegian education system than their socioeconomic status would suggest, due to the strong educational aspirations that immigrant parents might have for their children. Grounded in an educational equity paradigm, this study aims to test this hypothesis by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 4
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Song, Kwangok – Reading Teacher, 2023
As children of immigrants are increasing in number across the U.S. classrooms, schools need to develop strategies to engage with immigrant families. Structural and attitudinal issues in the school system create challenges in communicating with immigrant parents. Immigrant parents have high expectations for their children's academic achievement…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Aspiration, Parent Child Relationship, Educational Strategies
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Yuanyuan Liu; Benjamin H. Nam; Yicheng Yang – Educational Review, 2024
Despite the promise of English language teaching and the use of English as a medium of instruction, concerns have been growing about the decline in the number of English majors as well as structural problems in elite language education reflected in the rural-urban divide and resulting educational gaps in China. The English education major at a top…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
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Sorayyaee, Laleh; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Akbari, Omid – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2022
Recent conceptualizations of L2 motivation have regarded target language learners' goal-directed visions as the core feature of directed motivational currents; that is, a period of intense and enduring motivation in pursuit of a favorable personal vision. This study reports on a multiple-case study designed to explore the effective factors on…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Kortney Tambara-Leviste – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is focused on understanding the expectations, beliefs, and motivations of parental involvement during the college choice process. Many high school students are under a lot of stress and pressure influenced by a culture of achievement. This culture has created a competitive college choice process and has intensified the role of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Parent Child Relationship, Grade 12, High School Students
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