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Fernando Senar; Judit Janés; Àngel Huguet; Josep Ubalde – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the relationship between identification with the local territory, language attitudes and language proficiency in young immigrants in Catalonia, a region in Spain. The aims of the study are to examine how identification with the local territory affects attitudes and proficiency in languages, and whether language attitudes…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Attitudes, Immigrants, Language Proficiency
Christa van der Walt – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the position of what are called second additional languages in the language teaching landscape of South African schools. This landscape is crowded, with different South African languages vying for attention. Amidst efforts to increase the number of learners who offer an African language as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, French, Mandarin Chinese
Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh; Mahdi Rajaeenia – TESL-EJ, 2024
Language learning beliefs are considered to be an important factor influencing student learning outcomes. This mixed-methods research investigated English language learning beliefs of Iranian English language learners. Data were collected from 226 junior and senior male and female high school students using the Beliefs about Language Learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Elin Thordardottir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Language acquisition and Language Maintenance (LM) both depend on ample opportunity and motivation. Currently, many national language societies are undergoing Language Shift (LS) to English, impacting their acquisition as first (L1) and possibly even more as second (L2) language. This study interviewed 44 adolescents, including 24 L1 and 20 L2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Indo European Languages, Native Language, Bilingualism
Art Tsang – TESOL Journal, 2024
Despite scholars' advocacy of intelligibility over nativelikeness in the EFL education context, many learners still seem to favour standard British and American accents. However, comparisons across studies have shown some changes in learners' perceptions, suggesting a move away from standard accent orientation. This article reports part of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Dialects, Pronunciation, Student Evaluation
Ting, Yen-Ling Teresa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
As increasingly more upper secondary schools mainstream bilingualism via an array of strategies, databases collecting students' appraisals of their bilingual experiences become invaluable for informing practice. This paper discusses how the ADiBE Interview Protocol was adapted to efficiently collect candid appraisals from 99 students attending a…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Language Attitudes
Pichet Prakaianurat; Preena Kangkun – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study combines qualitative and quantitative methods to explore 15 English program (EP) students' attitudes toward English varieties and how they negotiate social meanings and construct their identity through stylistic practices in classroom discourse and English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions. Through a verbal guise test,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Cristina Illamola; Montserrat Sendra; F. Xavier Vila i Moreno – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the longitudinal development of language attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish over a five-year period in the transition from primary to secondary education of a sample of students (N = 1,143) in Catalonia and Aragon. Two research questions were investigated: (1) How do language attitudes develop over time? and (2) How do…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Spanish, Romance Languages, Longitudinal Studies
Tereza Švarcová – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons for low retention rates among students in the Chinese classes in upper secondary education in the Czech Republic. The principal research question was whether Chinese characters were the main reason why many students decided to stop attending their Chinese classes. Semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Ianos, Maria Adelina; Rusu, Andrei; Huguet, Àngel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In line with the increased interest in studying implicit language attitudes, this study aims to explore implicit attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish in the multicultural and multilingual context of Catalonia (Spain) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). A sample of 113 adolescents completed the IAT and a set of explicit measures of…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Language Attitudes
Mona Nishizaki – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
For decades now, researchers and academics have lamented the mismatch between the representation of English in the classroom and the way the language is used in real-world contexts. Much of teaching is bound by curricula that determine not only the contents of their teaching but also the materials and assessment methods they use, they are crucial…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Textbooks, Content Analysis, English (Second Language)
Aysegül Takkaç Tulgar – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The concept of glocal identity has captured researchers' imagination particularly in the last two decades and has been examined in relation with language learning. However, no study has yet touched upon pragmatic development in the target language under the effects of glocal identity. This longitudinal case study examined the development of glocal…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Global Approach, Turkish, Pragmatics
Aran Sahrai; Sutraphorn Tantiniranat – THAITESOL Journal, 2024
Native English speakers' accents are generally regarded as ideal models of English accents. However, in real-world communication, where English is used as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, English users inevitably encounter a wide variety of accents. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Metalinguistics, North American English
Apiwit Pawapootanon; Somkiet Poopatwiboon; Eric A. Ambele – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This qualitative study examines how Thai EFL teachers utilize pedagogical translanguaging in multilingual secondary school classrooms, employing both planned and unplanned strategies to support English language learning. Grounded in Cenoz and Gorter's (2021) multilingual pedagogical translanguaging model, the study investigates how teachers…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Code Switching (Language), Thai, English (Second Language)
Mengxia Fu; Shaofeng Li – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This article reports on a study exploring the associations between foreign language anxiety and the effectiveness of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) in the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and two middle school English as a foreign language (EFL) learners responded to the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Anxiety, Feedback (Response), Error Correction