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Maria Rodrigo-Tamarit; Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study contributes to the understanding of attitudes towards monolingual and code-switched varieties by examining the perceptions of 95 bilinguals towards Manitoban French, Canadian English and code-switching in Manitoba, a Canadian province where French is a minority language with official federal status. By means of a matched-guise test, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, French, English
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Rachael Lindberg; Pavel Trofimovich – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
According to expectation violation theory, job applicants can be upgraded or downgraded during an interview when their accent does not match employers' speech expectations. Focusing on the employment of second language French job candidates in Québec, this study explored this issue dynamically in terms of how expectations may impact the trajectory…
Descriptors: French, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Service Occupations
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Marie-Eve Bouchard – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Teachers play an essential role in fostering linguistic security in their classrooms. The aim of this study is to identify the language ideologies articulated by teachers in the Francophone schools of the English-dominant context of British Columbia (Canada) in order to explore how the different practices they implement to foster the use of French…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, French, English (Second Language)
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Erin Quirk; Melanie Brouillard; Alexa Ahooja; Susan Ballinger; Linda Polka; Krista Byers-Heinlein; Ruth Kircher – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Many parents express concerns for their children's multilingual development, yet little is known about the nature and strength of these concerns - especially among parents in multilingual societies. This pre-registered, questionnaire-based study addresses this gap by examining the concerns of 821 Quebec-based parents raising infants and toddlers…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Max Antony-Newman – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Due to the increased mobility and linguistic and cultural diversity internationally, there has been a renewed interest in the linguistic practices of immigrant families. Earlier scholarship focused on the difference between parenting in monolingual contexts and bilingual parenting conceptualised as management of more than one language in a family.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Immigrants
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Wenyangzi Shi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Translanguaging effectively affirms international students' diverse language practices and linguistic and cultural identities. Although it may appear evident that their multilingual and multicultural identities and experiences inevitably influence their translanguaging experiences, few studies have examined how their identities affect their…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
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Qiong Bai; Benjamin H. Nam; Alexander Scott English – Educational Review, 2024
This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors and acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic factors influencing their acculturative stressors in the host group…
Descriptors: Acculturation, English, Native Language, Language Attitudes
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Vander Tavares – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With the number of international students growing rapidly within (international) higher education, more attention has been focused on the need to consider international students' experiences, particularly those from the global south, from more critical, ethical and qualitative perspectives. This paper examines how the lived experiences of three…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Native Speakers, Foreign Students, Multilingualism
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Riches, Caroline; Parks, Philippa – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Linguistic identity is deeply embedded in how individuals identify within groups and cultures (Gee, 2000; Sachs, 2005). The contexts of English as a second language (ESL) teaching in Quebec and ESL teachers' range of linguistic repertoires provide an interesting landscape for considering issues of identity, equity, and acceptance (De Costa &…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. Dela Cruz – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Plurilingualism is an inclusive language teaching approach to sustain multilingual societies, but there is little investigation on teacher candidates' (TCs) beliefs and challenges before and after its implementation. This interpretive qualitative study introduced plurilingualism in teacher education at a Canadian university. Sixteen TCs…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kircher, Ruth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French in Quebec. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 274 parents from different mother tongue (L1) groups: L1 French, L1 English, L1 French and English, and L1 Other. The results show that L1…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Parent Attitudes, Native Language
Hayes, David – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book critically analyses early school foreign language teaching policy and practice, foregrounding the influence of the socioeducational and cultural context on how policies are implemented and assessing the factors which either promote or constrain their effectiveness. It focuses on four Asian contexts -- Malaysia, South Korea, Sri Lanka and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Neupane, Dhruba – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Research in international student success, satisfaction, and challenges seems still to be constructed around the colonial, imperial paradigm. Informed by deficit models of language, culture, and literacy teaching, such research portrays international students' challenges in terms of deficiency; discounts other languages, cultures, and literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Maatouk, Zeina; Payant, Caroline – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The field of language pedagogy has increasingly advocated for the implementation of plurilingual approaches which promote learners' ability to mobilize all linguistic resources at their disposal in order to communicate in different situations with various interlocutors [Cabré Rocafort 2019. "The Development of Plurilingual Education Through…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Meighan, Paul J. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches in English Language Education (ELE) have been important for envisaging more equitable language education. However, the languages implemented in translanguaging or plurilingual classrooms predominantly reflect the knowledge and belief systems of dominant, nation-state, "official", and/or…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Western Civilization
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