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"Disinvestment" in Learners' Multilingual Identities: English Learning, Imagined Identities, and Neoliberal Subjecthood in Pakistan
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Syed Abdul Manan; Anas Hajar – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Most recent research on language learning and identity emphasizes on investing learners' capital as affordance to affirm their identities (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton, 2013). Learners' capital refers to prior knowledge, home literacies/native languages. Drawing on data from English language academies from Pakistan, this study finds a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
A Qualitative Study of Prospective Teachers' Perceptions about Critical Thinking Skills before and after Studying the Functional English Course
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Shaista Irshad Khan; Shawana Fazal; Farrukh Nazir – SAGE Open, 2025
This qualitative study investigated the perceptions of prospective teachers on critical thinking (CT) skills before and after completing the Functional English (FE) course at the Bachelor of Education Honors (B.Ed. Hons) and Associate Degree in Education (ADE). A purposive sampling technique was employed to select 40 participants, with eight…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Honors Curriculum, Critical Thinking