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Gaining English and Other Foreign Languages through Immersion: Lessons from Indonesian Polyglots
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Noprival Noprival – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Although there has been much research on second language learning, minimal literature reports how language learners learn multiple foreign languages through immersion. Further, a majority of these previous studies have been conducted using exclusively quantitative methods. In response to these empirical and methodological gaps, the current study…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Adult Learning
Language-Dependent Knowledge Acquisition: Mechanisms Underlying Language-Switching Costs in Arithmetic Fact Learning
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Christian G. K. Hahn; Henrik Saalbach; Clemens Brunner; Roland H. Grabner – Frontline Learning Research, 2025
Within the research on bilingual learning, first studies have revealed that content learned in one language is retrieved more slowly when participants have to switch language from instruction to testing (i.e., language-switching costs, LSC). These costs are attributed to language-dependent knowledge representations. However, the cognitive…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Learning, Arithmetic, Mathematics Education
Improving the Comprehension and Vocabulary Skills of English Language Learners with Content Integrated Language Instruction for Adults
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Durgunoglu, Aydin Yücesan; Sagar, Anurag; Fagan, Katherine E.; Brueck, Amy – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
We have developed a program called Content Integrated Language Instruction for Adults, incorporating research-based practices in vocabulary and language instruction to facilitate a deep and broad understanding of complex content. A subset of words critical to comprehension of the subject matter is covered in each lesson, using group discussion and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Skills, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Techno-CLIL in an ESOL Context: Vocabulary Learning and Student Perceptions of the Lifesaver App in a Further Education College
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Bohannon, Fionuala; Thomas, Michael – International TESOL Journal, 2021
While the use of digital technologies is increasingly prominent in higher education, research suggests that adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners within the English Further Education (FE) sector have fewer opportunities to access them as part of their language learning. This paper explores whether the use of authentic…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Utilizing Diverse Instructional Approaches; Designing Activities That Resonate with ELLs
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MacDonald, Kara; McCaw, Tatiana; Scheibner, Annette – CATESOL Journal, 2021
ELLs need to engage with topics and situations in the classroom that equip them with the social, professional and civic cultural skills to address real-life interactions for their present realities, as well as their future realities (American, 2009, Garett, 2005; Perez & Morrison, 2016). Teachers face the challenge of balancing conventional…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, English Language Learners, Situated Learning, Teaching Methods
Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning: The Case of Japan. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
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Reinders, Hayo, Ed.; Ryan, Stephen, Ed.; Nakamura, Sachiko, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2019
This book examines a wide range of innovations in language learning and teaching in Japan. Each of the chapters describes the impetus for a change or new development in a particular context, from early childhood to adult learning, details its implementation and provides an evaluation of its success. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)