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Mostafa Nazari; Sedigheh Karimpour – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Theory and research on translanguaging have increasingly grown in the past decades. However, the scope of research on how teachers make sense of translanguaging is limited, particularly how they emotionally respond to a translanguaging pedagogy. The present study addressed this gap by examining eight Iranian English-L2 teachers'…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Esmaeel Ali Salimi; Zhongfeng Tian; Alireza Ghasempour – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
In the past decade, research on EFL teachers' beliefs about translanguaging has significantly grown. However, little qualitative research has been done on teachers' translanguaging beliefs and practices and the congruity between them. To address this gap in the literature, the current study investigated Iranian EFL teachers' beliefs and practices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Amir Ghajarieh; Afarin Aghabozorgi – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to analyze translanguaging practices and beliefs of Iranian English for General Purposes (EGP) teachers and find discrepancies between the practice and perception of educators in bi/multilingual species in Iranian educational settings. Design/methodology/approach: The study involved interviewing ten teachers and observing…
Descriptors: Translation, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Bilingualism
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Bonyadi, Alireza; Kalvanagh, Mehdi Kheyrollahi; Bonyadi, Minoo – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021
Feasibility of maintaining an educational sustainable development (ESD) depends on exploring teachers' concepts on their common practices in classroom settings. Speakers in multilingual contexts commonly switch their codes, languages, during their numerous social interactions. Nowadays, the phenomena, code switching, has expanded to cover any…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Teacher Attitudes
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Sanei, Taraneh – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
This paper explores the impact of globalization, and the consequent re-ordering of indexicalities associated with different languages and linguistic practices, on the sociolinguistic repertoires and behaviors of Farsi-English bilingual Iranians in Iran. I focus on the participants' Farsi-English Code-switching (CS) practices and their positionings…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Elhambakhsh, S. E.; Allami, H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study investigates diglossic patterns of language use by speakers of Zoroastrian Dari in the city of Yazd, where most of Zoroastrian population of Iran lives. Efforts have been made to find out how, when and why the spoken language of Dari is favoured by Zoroastrian community members. For this reason, the evaluation by the informants of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Linguistics
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Taheri, Ali Akbar; Davoudi, Mohammad – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Compensation Strategies (CpSs) are strategies which a language user employs in order to achieve his intended meaning when precise linguistic forms are for some reasons not available at that point of communication. Different factors may influence the use of CpSs, among which the level of language proficiency is one of the most important ones. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Jalilian, Sahar; Rahmatian, Rouhollah; Safa, Parivash; Letafati, Roya – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Simultaneous bilingual education of a child is a dynamic process. Construction of linguistic competences undeniably depends on the conditions of the linguistic environment of the child. This education in a monolingual family, requires the practice of parenting tactics to increase the frequency of the language use in minority, during which,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingual Education, Indo European Languages, Child Language
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Miri, Mowla; Alibakhshi, Goudarz; Mostafaei-Alaei, Mahnaz – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
The authors report on a study aimed at exploring the role of a teacher education program (TEP) rested upon the tenets of critical pedagogy in influencing teachers' cognitions and practices concerning first-language (L1) use in second-language (L2) classrooms. Participants were 10 Iranian English as a foreign language teachers, whose cognitions…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Negative Attitudes
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Sharifian, Farzad – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2013
Traditionally, many studies of second language acquisition (SLA) were based on the assumption that learning a new language mainly involves learning a set of grammatical rules, lexical items, and certain new sounds and sound combinations. However, for many second language learners, learning a second language may involve contact and interactions…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Indo European Languages, Cultural Influences
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Rezvani, Ehsan; Street, Hezar Jerib; Rasekh, Abbass Eslami – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper presents the results of a small-scale exploratory investigation of code-switching (CS) between English and Farsi by 4 Iranian English foreign language (EFL) teachers in elementary level EFL classrooms in a language school in Isfahan, Iran. Specifically, the present study aimed at exploring the syntactical identification of switches and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages
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Bani-Shoraka, Helena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This study examines how bilingual family members use language choice and language alternation as a local scheme of interpretation to distinguish different and often contesting social identities in interaction. It is argued that the playful creation of oppositional identities in interaction relieves the speakers from responsibility and creates a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Foreign Countries