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Chang Liu; Meihua Chen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study employs a mixed-methods design to explore the attitudes and expressed beliefs of Chinese postgraduate students regarding the strategic use of their entire range of languages in English academic writing (EAW). The survey findings suggest that while students generally accept the idea of mixing languages during the writing process, they…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Fred Dervin; Kaisa Hahl – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper addresses 'distractions' in the way English language education is discussed and practiced in one of the most debated systems of education in the world today: Finnish primary education. Distractions are considered as 'makers of disturbance' in educational ideologies by the authors. Examining the 2014 National Core Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), National Curriculum
Reasons to Learn a Minoritised Language: The Case of Migrant New Speakers of Welsh in Cardiff, Wales
Ka Long Tung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This paper explores the reasons for migrant new speakers of Welsh in Cardiff to learn the language given that English is the main communication medium in everyday life. From interviews with 10 migrant new speakers of Welsh and their language diaries, this paper shows that migrant new speakers were interested in accessing the Welsh culture and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Minorities, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
Maria Papakosma – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this article is to examine contemporary conceptualizations of cultural and linguistic diversity in the Swedish policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC). The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with high-level policy actors and the analysis of documentary material. Using the concepts of interculturality and hybridity as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Swedish, Diversity, Foreign Countries
Pilar Ordóñez--López – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
The impact of attitudes on the learning process and on the academic results achieved by students has been the object of numerous studies, which have shown a connection between attitudes and learning. Similarly, the impact of students' attitudes towards learning a foreign language (mainly English) has been explored from a wide range of…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Akif Çal; Tessa Mearns; Wilfried Admiraal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2025
This study aims to explore to what extent engineering students' perceptions of the role of English in the workplace are affected by their internship and field of study. Previous research revealed that employers value engineers' English communication skills highly. However, mismatches between workplace expectations and engineers' competencies…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Language Role
Kyle Perkins; Lawrence Jun Zhang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The effect of first language transfer on second language acquisition and learning has been a major theoretical concept in second language research and pedagogy since the 1950s. In order to give a historical perspective, the authors offer a brief presentation of some of the major topics from the broad spectrum of issues that have been examined by…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Contrastive Linguistics
Lucas Peltonen; Guangwei Hu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
Internationally operating professionals in China study business English to develop their language proficiency and transcultural communicative competence. While a variety of business English textbooks are on the market and are used in China, their conceptualizations of culture tend to be nation-based, static, and predictable -- views of culture…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Communication, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Diego Ortega-Auquilla; Ligia Fernanda Espinosa-Cevallos; Sandy T. Soto; Andrés Bonilla Marchán – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
The study was aimed at determining the essential factors that motivate Ecuadorian university students' English learning. The study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods design by means of the administration of online questionnaires to 2077 students and 109 English instructors. The initial quantitative study results were further explained…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Md Abu Nayeem; Abdul Alim; Mohammod Moninoor Roshid – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
Learning English as a foreign language (EFL) beyond the classroom is challenging in non-native English-speaking developing countries with limited resources. However, learning English beyond the classroom occurs in an informal way to support language learning for many autonomous or independent adult learners. This paper explores the habit of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes
Cheng Yao; Supawadee Kanjanakate; Nirat Jantharajit – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
In the contemporary era of globalization, learning a second language has become a pivotal means to broaden individual perspectives and enhance competitiveness. English, as the lingua franca of international communication, assumes particular importance. This paper delves into the integrated application of situated learning (SL) and task-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Executive Function
Lina Sun – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study navigates the constructive role of English as a foreign language (EFL) as a critical intercultural discourse of locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship through which teachers in Chinese educational context act as agents of action and social change. Based on a critical discourse analysis of learner diary entries, the study traces…
Descriptors: Diaries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Frauke Matz; Ricardo Römhild – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2024
This conceptual paper explores the intersection of human rights, children's rights, and peace education, and language education. Languages, communication, and dialogue play a crucial role in international understanding and cooperation towards human rights, children's rights, and peace. This contribution recognizes communicative competence as…
Descriptors: Peace, Civil Rights, Sustainable Development, Second Language Learning
Sujeewa Hettiarachchi; Chitra Jayathilake; Sujeeva Sebastian Pereira – Discover Education, 2025
This qualitative study uses deductive thematic analysis to examine the L2 motivation of social science lecturers working in English Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts at selected Sri Lankan universities. Drawing on Dörnyei's (Dörnyei in The psychology of the language learner, Routledge, London, 2005) L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) as its…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Disi Ai; Juup Stelma; Alex Baratta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper explores the "multilingual lived experience" (MLE) of four Mongol-Chinese individuals. This lived experience is set in the multilingual context of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) of China. Compared to the ethnic majority Han people, who are Mandarin (Putonghua) speakers, and who study English as a L2, Inner…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Experience, Second Language Learning, Languages