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Line Krogager Andersen – Modern Language Journal, 2024
As part of a larger project investigating language awareness in plurilingual settings across educational levels through a multiple case study, this article zooms in on students' language awareness as it unfolds in a classroom in a Danish upper secondary school, in the context of a compulsory, plurilingual general language awareness course.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Costache, Oana; Becker, Eva S.; Goetz, Thomas – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Motivational interactions during multiple language learning have been largely neglected in language motivation research. To fill this gap, we investigate longitudinal relations between Swiss German students' value beliefs in English, French, and German in upper secondary schools and whether there are differences in motivational development between…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Qin, Kongji – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This article examines the relationship between language curriculum and learners' subjectivity through a poststructuralist perspective. I use performativity theory to highlight the constituting power of language and integrate it with critical race theory to understand the relationships among curriculum, classroom interaction, and subjectivity…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Immigrants, Correlation
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Busse, Vera – Modern Language Journal, 2017
This article explores adolescent students' attitudes toward learning English and other European languages studied at secondary school. The study is based on 2255 qualitative responses to a survey conducted in Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. The data reveal that, although differences between countries shape the experience of foreign…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation
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Haim, Orly – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The study addresses the degree of transfer of literacy dimensions of academic proficiency (AP), that is, reading comprehension and writing, across three languages--Russian (L1), Hebrew (L2), and English (L3)--and investigates whether a common conceptual source underlies the linguistic and cognitive operations of the trilingual learner (Grosjean,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Holistic Approach, Immigrants
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Bernaus, Merce; Moore, Emilee; Azevedo, Adriana Cordeiro – Modern Language Journal, 2007
This study explored the affective factors influencing students' learning of Catalan across different year levels in a multilingual school community in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Questionnaires were distributed to 176 students, from 12 to 17 years of age, registered in a public secondary school, the majority of whom were not born in Catalonia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Affective Measures, Official Languages