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Yataganbaba, Esra; Amir, Alia; Yildirim, Rana – Turkish Journal of Education, 2022
This study explores the instances when teachers employ language policing (Amir, 2013) in the Turkish EFL young learners' context. Language policing studies are scarce in EFL young learners' classrooms. Hence, this study is an attempt to address the gap in the literature concerning EFL young learners' contexts from the expanding circle and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Hyunjin Jinna Kim; Tuba Yilmaz; Yong-Jik Lee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
As global migration and transnational mobility have increased steadily in the recent few decades, interests in equity-based theories and pedagogies have intensified to respond to racially and linguistically diverse student needs in today's classrooms. Raciolinguistic ideology is a theoretical framework challenging monoglossic language ideologies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, Language Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Karakas, Ali – Online Submission, 2018
As universities attempt to change their medium of instruction from the local languages to English and become more international by recruiting international students and teaching staff, their academic English language policies and practices appear to be more prominent. The use of English in higher education as the medium of instruction and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ordem, Eser – Educational Forum, 2023
This study aims to apply critical pedagogy and a participatory approach by including an excluded context, the South African culture, into the curriculum of foreign language classes (EFL) in Turkey because the South African context (SA) has been ignored and excluded from the curriculum of global textbooks and EFL in Turkey. This comparative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Problems
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O'Grady, Stefan – Language Testing, 2019
This study investigated the impact of different lengths of pre-task planning time on performance in a test of second language speaking ability for university admission. In the study, 47 Turkish-speaking learners of English took a test of English language speaking ability. The participants were divided into two groups according to their language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Placement
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Selvi, Ali Fuad – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Situated at the intersection of sociolinguistic and educational planes, English as a medium-of-instruction debate has always been at the crux of the intense debates, and offers a lens for a systematic investigation of the spread of English in Turkey. As Turkey is moving toward greater integration with the European Union and promoting its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kirkgoz, Yasemin – Educational Policy, 2009
It is widely acknowledged that globalization has made a considerable impact on multidimensional aspects of human life including the language policies of many countries. This article examines the adjustment of Turkey's language policy in response to the global influence of English at different levels of Turkish national education, including its…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Uysal, Hacer Hande; Plakans, Lia; Dembovskaya, Svetlana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
In the discussion of English language spread policies, scholars have taken various viewpoints. One approach concerns the "diffusion-of-English" and "language ecology" paradigms, which distinguish externally dominant English spread and resistance to this hegemony. Others have questioned this approach, and proposed that English…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lin, Angel M. Y., Ed.; Martin, Peter W., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2005
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers and educators in a range of areas.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Rural Schools, Language Planning