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Priyanka Bose; Xuesong Gao; Sue Starfield; Nirukshi Perera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Indo European Languages, Linguistic Theory
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Heejin Chang; Scott Windeatt – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This study investigates the potential of "VoiceThread" (VT) as a learning tool in order to enhance learners' performance and confidence, and to provide the basis for continuing independent practice. The participants were students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds on a 10-week English for Academic Purposes (EAP)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Audio Equipment, Computer Software
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Ekaterina Tour; Marianne Turner; Anne Keary; Khanh-Linh Tran-Dang – Language and Education, 2024
It has been widely recognised that plurilingual pedagogy offers many benefits both for language learning and learning in general. However, in contexts where the linguistic profile of students is diverse, it can still be challenging for teachers to view working with the language resources of their students as feasible. In this article, we discuss…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Correlation, Teaching Methods
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Yin, Yijun; Chik, Alice; Falloon, Garry – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The impact of global mobility and technology innovations on urban linguistic diversity poses a key challenge to understand how and to what extent international students are immersed in the target language. Such diversity of languages and modes of communication has pointed to a fundamental transformation in the way that international students…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Ashton-Hay, Sally Ann; Lamberton, Geoffrey; Zhou, Yining; von der Heidt, Tania – Journal of International Education in Business, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effectiveness of bilingual learning strategies designed to support Chinese undergraduate business students facing significant learning challenges in an Australian university capstone curriculum delivered at their Chinese university. These challenges include the students' difficulty understanding…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Dunn, Peter K.; Carey, Michael D.; Richardson, Alice M.; McDonald, Christine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
Learning statistics requires learning the language of statistics. Statistics draws upon words from general English, mathematical English, discipline-specific English and words used primarily in statistics. This leads to many linguistic challenges in teaching statistics and the way in which the language is used in statistics creates an extra layer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Mathematics Education