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María José Aragón; Meghan Corella; Nora W. Lang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Despite recent calls to more fully incorporate multimodal perspectives into literacies research, there is still limited scholarship examining how students critically engage in reading activities by drawing on embodied practices. Racially and linguistically minoritized students are particularly disadvantaged by dominant logocentric and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Activities, Public Schools
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Mary J. Schleppegrell; Mina Hernandez Garcia; Sally AL-Banna; Chauncey Monte-Sano – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
We report on U.S. middle school Arabic-speaking students who were agentive in translanguaging for disciplinary learning during social studies inquiry and suggest specific ways that students' academic learning and bilingual development can be supported through translanguaging in the context of English-dominant classrooms. We engaged in design-based…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Danielle Jo Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to understand how secondary science students make space for themselves in the classroom. Specifically, this study examines the interplay between classroom structures and students' agentic negotiations while identifying the relationship between students' enacted agency and their authored science identities by drawing from a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Decision Making, Teaching Methods
Megan Alyssa Ehrenfeld – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language is connected to a people, culture, history, and communicative purpose. One way world language teachers help students explore the intersections of culture and language is through the use of authentic texts, such as films, newspapers, podcasts, videos, music or short stories (see: Pinzon, 2020). While the research points to the success of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Cultural Awareness
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Aysu, Semahat – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study aims to compare the opinions of optional and compulsory preparatory class students about learning English and the target culture. Furthermore, students' reasons to learn English are examined in terms of independent variables (gender, going abroad and status of prep class). In the present study, data are gathered through a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chan, Brian Hok-Shing; Chou, Chris Ion-Pang – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
This qualitative study analyzes the use of translanguaging in co-learning activities involving four junior-one students in an English remedial class. The school advocates a policy of English immersion in the regular English class, although students may have difficulty understanding the teachers and interacting with them during the classes. In the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Honggang; Zhang, Xi; Fang, Fan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
With the expanding use of English around the world, it is important to understand various stakeholders' attitudes towards it from a Global Englishes (GE) perspective. The GE perspective has challenged native speakerism and recognized the multilingual nature of the English language. In particular, a GE perspective leads to the sustainable…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Myrset, Anders – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
This article reports on a study investigating the role of scientific concepts in the metapragmatic awareness of Norwegian primary EFL learners following a four-week instructional intervention on requesting informed by sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 2012/1934). Through introducing pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic dimensions of requesting, the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Rankin, Tom – Second Language Research, 2023
Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides a framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar competition as the model requires a marriage of quantitative properties of the input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational model of grammar competition is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Reshara Alviarez – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This article highlights research collected during a year-long critical participatory ethnographic study at a primary school in Trinidad and Tobago. The study presents the experiences of two teacher collaborators who engage in the processes of problem identification, design and implementation of a language-friendly plan, reflective practice and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Teacher Role, Transformative Learning, Participatory Research
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Mattson-Prieto, Raquel; Showstack, Rachel – Language Learning, 2022
This study investigated classroom interaction through the framework of "stancetaking" (Du Bois, 2007) to understand how Spanish second language (L2) learners positioned themselves when participating in communicative language learning activities. Data came from transcribed audio and video recordings of three 90-minute lessons in one…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
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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
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Erbay-Çetinkaya, Sakire; Kayaoglu, Mustafa Naci – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
The changing sociolinguistic landscape of English with novel uses and users calls for adjustment of the existing Anglocentric English Language Teaching practices, thereby encouraging paradigm shifts, including Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL). To this end, for a PhD study, an EIL-oriented course was designed and implemented,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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Lee, Ju Seong; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin; Lee, Kilryoung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Although there have been several comparative studies of willingness to communicate in a first language (L1 WTC), there is a dearth of comparative research on L2 WTC, especially between groups with distinct cultural and educational backgrounds. This study synthesises the L2 motivational self system (ideal L2 self and ought-to L2 self) and attitudes…
Descriptors: Korean, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
Yagcioglu, Ozlem – Online Submission, 2022
Speaking courses in English language education are important to develop many skills. They are enjoyable courses in which students can practice the words, phrases, idioms, or proverbs they learn. Teachers or lecturers are lucky if their students would like to attend the classroom activities, they prepare for their class hours. When students attend…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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