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Scott Walsh – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2024
Senses, specifically sight and hearing, are the mechanisms through which we access and navigate our everyday lives, and use of language is the cornerstone of how we connect. For students who are deaf or hard of hearing, barriers to access and inability to effectively use language within an environment can have significant impacts. Accessibility…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Language Usage, Barriers
Ian Alexander – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study examines the second language academic discourse socialization of two Chinese students who attended British Columbia (Canada) offshore schools in China. After an overview of offshore school structures in China, this article describes the perspectives and experiences of recent offshore school graduates interviewed at a Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Academic Language, Socialization
Duangkamon Klungthong; Punchalee Wasanasomsithi – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Academic vocabulary is necessary for university students. Vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) assist students to enhance their vocabulary knowledge and should be examined in accordance with their dynamic nature (Gu, 2020). Dynamic assessment (DA) is considered an alternative assessment that simultaneously and systematically assesses and teaches…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
Khin May Oo; Takeshi Okada – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Enhancing proficiency in argumentative writing in English has always been a challenge for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Despite the widespread use of argumentative essays in international tests such as International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and Tests of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in recent years, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Persuasive Discourse, Academic Language
Shiping Duan; Zhiliang Shi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigates the use of formulaic sequences (FS) in academic writings of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language across different levels of studies at a public university in China. Frequency-based formulas were retrieved from a corpus of student academic texts written at five time points between Year 1 and Year 3. The…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mohammed Sani Ya’u; Mohammed Sadaa Mohammed – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
The rise of AI-assisted writing tools has transformed academic literacy, as it offers students support in grammar correction, sentence structure, and idea generation. However, concerns about academic integrity and over-reliance on AI are on the increase. This study investigates how Nigerian university students use AI writing tools and examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Natural Language Processing
Umbreen Tariq – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities to improve the English essay writing of Pakistani university students. It highlights the role of CALL in the language proficiency model cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), which can enable second language learners to engage in more critical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Thi Minh Chau Tran; Bao Trang Thi Nguyen; Pham Thi Hong Nhung; Lien-Huong Vo; Van Huy Nguyen – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Our study examined the difficulties Vietnamese Masters (MA) in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages) students encountered while writing their MA theses. Using a a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, data were collected from 29 MA TESOL students who had completed their theses at a university in central Vietnam. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Theses, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Christina Hedman; Una Cunningham – Language Awareness, 2025
The paper builds on ethnographic fieldwork in a Language Introduction program for recently arrived students in an upper secondary school in Sweden. In a short period of time, this program prepares students for using Swedish as an academic language, in order to enter a national program. One response to this challenge is that schools allocate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Swedish, Secondary School Students
Mandy R. Menke – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Language immersion programs seek to develop multilingual, multiliterate individuals able to engage with academic content. Studies of immersion students' language development provide details regarding language proficiency and accuracy, yet they generally do not address how features of written, academic language, for example, syntactic and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens; Richard Sallis; Annemaree O'Brien – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This paper reports on a major study which examined how middle-primary teachers (of students aged 8-10) in Australia used drama-rich pedagogy in their literacy programs to support the development of academic language proficiency, a critical element of ongoing student progress in literacy beyond the early years. Despite its proven status as a…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education
Lukas Homateni Julius; Sioux McKenna; Emmanuel Mgqwashu – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Success in higher education relates in part to competence in the medium of instruction. But the academic literacy literature provides compelling evidence that competence in the medium of instruction is insufficient to ensure success. Crucially, students need to take on the literacy practices of the discipline or field. This study offers a thematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Jian Xu; Wanyu Amy Ou – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This qualitative study examines Chinese returnee scholars' language practices in teaching and research and their identity construction during their early career years. Using interviews and drawing upon poststructuralist identity theory, it examines the adaptations of twelve Chinese bilingual returnee scholars to new academic communities in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Frieda N. Shingenge – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Although students in teacher education programmes in Namibia study through the medium of English, their academic language (AL) proficiency remains a challenge for most of them. In the Junior Primary Education programmes, they are not only required to master AL for their own studies, but they must also learn how to teach emergent…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics
Eva Olsson – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although research on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has shown that CLIL instruction may enhance students' second or foreign language learning compared to regular foreign language instruction, there are also studies that have indicated similar language development between CLIL and non-CLIL students. However, CLIL can be organized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning