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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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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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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 GarcĂ­a,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Social Justice, Native Language, Second Language Learning