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Lin Chen; Charles Perfetti – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Learning new words is fundamental in both first and second-language reading. There are, however, divided opinions on the best instructional approaches. Two widely used approaches across languages are whole-word focus and word-constituent focus. The appropriateness of each approach has varied historically, even within a single language (e.g., the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kahrizsangi, Abbas Ali Salehi; Haddadi, Mohammad Hossein – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Acquisition and improvement of literary translation competence is an important undertaking in teaching literary translation with the aim to enable the student to translate into the target language the content, expressive power, language style, and an equal function of the literary text. This essay pursues the aim of helping to create and improve…
Descriptors: Literature, Translation, Creoles, Teaching Methods
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Das, Ruchira – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
Olchiki is the indigenous script of Santals, a dominant tribal community of West Bengal, formulated to promote and represent "adi" cultural heritage and traditions in their mother tongue Santali. The script was recognised by the Government of West Bengal in 1978 and was introduced at the primary level of education. However, there have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Indigenous Populations, Tribes
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Ben Salem, Lobna – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
If in Edward Said's words, "everyone lives life in a given language; everyone's experiences therefore are had, absorbed, and recalled in that language" ("Out of Place", 1999: 217), a writer who chooses to write in a language other than the mother-language is inevitably a victim of displacement. In a geography-decentred world,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, French
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Park, Eun Sung – Language Learning, 2011
This study explored learners' self-generated noticing of L2 input. It is motivated by previous research on input enhancement which suggested that learners are able to notice certain aspects of input on their own without any external means to direct their attention. Drawing on insights that learner-generated noticing is largely mediated by…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Written Language, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Hardacker, Erin P. – European Education, 2013
The Educational Decree of 1863 was an effort by Spain to reform the Philippine colonial education system. The Decree established a complete system of education in the archipelago--it required two elementary schools in each municipality (one for girls and one for boys), standardized the curriculum, and established normal schools, thus making…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Foreign Policy
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Tosky King, Elena; Scott, Lakia M. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2014
Purpose: This paper aims to progress the dialogue on language rights in the urban classroom. Research has evidenced how language can serve as a powerful tool in mainstream ideologies; more specifically, the preferred and dominant use of Standard Written English in the American classroom has demonstrated how language serves as a gatekeeper for…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Variation
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Montrul, Silvina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Morphological variability and the source of these errors have been intensely debated in SLA. A recurrent finding is that postpuberty second language (L2) learners often omit or use the wrong affix for nominal and verbal inflections in oral production but less so in written tasks. According to the missing surface inflection hypothesis, L2 learners…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Heritage Education
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Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2007
The ultimate goal of reading is to construct text meaning based on visually encoded information. Essentially, it entails converting print into language and then to the message intended by the author. It is hardly accidental, therefore, that, in all languages, reading builds on oral language competence and that learning to read uniformly requires…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Languages, Reading Research, Linguistic Theory