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Susan Ballinger, Editor; Ruth Fielding, Editor; Diane J. Tedick, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book fills a large gap in our understanding of how to prepare teachers for the challenging but increasingly popular task of integrating content and language instruction. It brings together findings on content-based teacher education from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America in order to inform researchers and teacher educators and…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Deng, Fei; Peng, Jian-E – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
This study explores changes in willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) inside multilingual classrooms among short-term exchange students. Data were collected from eight Chinese exchange students studying in three universities in Canada and two instructors teaching in one of these universities through in-depth interviews.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
Cameron Smith; Mimi Masson; Valia Spiliotopoulos; Paula Kristmanson – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Institutions strive to offer programs that address both the needs of the educational system and incorporate current pedagogical research. Creating a program that is relevant, inspiring, and accessible to aspiring French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers, while also equipping them with the skills and knowledge deemed necessary by the education…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Mimi Masson; Alaa Azan; Amanda Battistuzzi – in education, 2024
The French as a second language (FSL) teacher shortage crisis has been a longstanding issue in Canada. In this paper, we examine the links between teacher agency, autonomy and identity in light of findings about marginalization, deprofessionalization, and/or difficulty in developing a strong sense of identity. Taking these findings into account,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Language Programs, Teacher Shortage
Zagrebina, Anna – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
The meanings and effects of government-funded language training programs is an important research subject because it concerns possible prejudices against immigrants and negative stereotypes as well as discussions on the effectiveness of immigrant integration policies in general. The effects of civic integration programs are difficult to measure,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Integration, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ji-young Shin; Yujeong Choi – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
The use of AI-powered chatbots has recently been extensively examined for second language (L2) learning. While their positive effects have been widely reported regarding L2 English learning, studies involving less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) are scant. The current study incorporated an AI chatbot called Iruda in L2 Korean teaching, to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, Korean
Paul J. Meighan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Indigenous communities worldwide face threats to their linguistic and epistemic heritage with the unabated spread of dominant colonial languages and global monocultures, such as English and the neoliberal, imperialistic worldview. There is considerable strain on the relatively few Elders and speakers of Indigenous languages to maintain cultures…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Marika Kunnas – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This paper presents three monologues created from an arts-based doctoral study investigating race and racism in French immersion programs in Ontario. French immersion has been criticized for being exclusionary, especially based on race (Yoon & Gulson, 2010), special education status (Wise, 2011), nationality, and home language (Mady, 2013). In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, French, Immersion Programs
Paul Anthony Marshall – BC TEAL Journal, 2024
A wide range of English for academic purposes (EAP) programs are offered in British Columbia and across Canada. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of an English for general academic purposes (EGAP) approach can provide important insights into how students might most benefit from their EAP program experiences. The insights in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Program Effectiveness, College Students
Universities UK, 2021
The UK government has been called on to reform the Visitor immigration route by increasing the length of time short-term exchange students are permitted to stay in the UK from six months to one academic year. The contribution of international students to the UK is celebrated and discussed within the higher education sector. However, not as much…
Descriptors: Immigration, Foreign Students, Exchange Programs, Higher Education
Ruest, Carl – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
Reflecting upon their intercultural experiences, with a tool like the "Autobiography of intercultural encounters," may help adolescents become better interculturalists. This research investigates how the use of the Autobiography may allow adolescents develop intercultural competence (IC). Using Byram's framework on which this tool is…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Autobiographies, Student Attitudes, Guidelines
Xiong, Tao; Feng, Anwei – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Due to the growing status of English as the language of international communication, English immersion programs have been on the rise in China and the rest of the world. Though there has been much discussion on the theoretical and practical characteristics and features of immersion, current models are not adequate for explaining the…
Descriptors: International Education, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Schwieter, John W.; Jackson, Jane; Ferreira, Aline – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The present study examines the language- and culture-learning perceptions of domestic and international students from a Canadian university who participated in an intensive four-week-long Spanish language and cultural immersion program in Spain. The study draws on quantitative and qualitative data to explore the ways in which the participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes
Cameron W. Smith – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This article draws upon a 10-month study of core French as a second language (FSL) teachers to explore the professional identities that are produced in their work. Adopting rhizoanalysis and the Deleuzian concept of becoming, this article positions the ways in which these teachers both affect and are affected by the multiple material and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, French, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Jill Cummings; Matthias Sturm; Augusta Avram – Migration and Language Education, 2020
Blended Learning (BL) in English language learning programs in Canada is defined as the combination of f2f learning with instructor-facilitated use by students of online activities and resources that complement the in-class teaching (Kennell & Moriarty, 2014). Blended Learning is increasingly in demand by students, teachers, and programs…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Foreign Countries