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Ashley R. Moore – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Linguistic distancing behaviours indicative of linguistic dissociation (Moore, 2023) have been documented in social scientific and literary accounts focusing on the lives of Japanese-English late plurilinguals (LPs; e.g. Harrison, 2011; Kelsky, 2001; McMahill, 2001; Mori, 1997; Takahashi, 2013). Across these cases, diverse Japanese-English LPs…
Descriptors: Language Role, Japanese, Language Research, Bilingualism
Natalia Reich-Stiebert; Jan-Bennet Voltmer; Jennifer Raimann; Stefan Stürmer – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2023
The acquisition of online interaction competencies is an important learning objective. The present study explored the relationships between the first-language heterogeneity of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) groups and the development of students' online interaction self-efficacy via a pretest--posttest design in the context of a…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Role, Second Language Learning, Self Efficacy
Chang Liu; Meihua Chen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study employs a mixed-methods design to explore the attitudes and expressed beliefs of Chinese postgraduate students regarding the strategic use of their entire range of languages in English academic writing (EAW). The survey findings suggest that while students generally accept the idea of mixing languages during the writing process, they…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
de la Fuente, María J.; Goldenberg, Carola – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study investigated whether second language (L2) classroom instruction that incorporates a principled approach into the use of the first language (L1) by students and instructors has an effect on beginning learners' development of L2 speaking and writing proficiency, compared to L2-only instruction, over the course of one semester.…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Role, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Alejandro Cuza; Laura Solano-Escobar – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examined the production of inalienable possession with body parts in Spanish among 20 school-age children of Mexican-born parents born and raised in the United States. The results were compared to those of 20 first-generation immigrant parents (main input providers), 27 Spanish-dominant children of similar age, and 12 Spanish…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Mexican Americans, Language Dominance
Qilin Mo; Hongmei Yang; Shupei Huang – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This study investigates the role of speaking the Jing language in the contemporary context of China's active engagement with Vietnam. Based on the fieldwork conducted in Dongxing Guangxi in January 2024, the study shows that the Jing language plays an important role in both maintaining the cultural heritage as pride and empowering the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vietnamese, Vietnamese People, Native Language
Maria Papakosma – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this article is to examine contemporary conceptualizations of cultural and linguistic diversity in the Swedish policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC). The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with high-level policy actors and the analysis of documentary material. Using the concepts of interculturality and hybridity as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Swedish, Diversity, Foreign Countries
Elise Alberts; Gijsbert Rutten – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Netherlands is home to an increasing number of English-language churches. These churches are often established with an international audience in mind: however, interestingly, they also attract a large number of Dutch as a first-language (L1) speakers. This article investigates the language attitudes and language choices of Dutch L1 speakers…
Descriptors: Native Language, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Marga Stander; Hazel Sivell – Sign Language Studies, 2025
This article aims to identify common errors made by hearing students learning South African Sign Language (SASL) and enhance the understanding of language acquisition in this context. The researchers formulated three hypotheses, attributing errors to vocabulary gaps, misunderstandings due to improper signing, and the dual impact of spoken and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Hearing (Physiology)
Nawal Khelalfa; Mountassar-Billah Kellil – SAGE Open, 2023
There has been a considerable shift in opinion in recent years concerning the use of language learners' first language (L1) in the teaching and learning of the second language (L2). Recent research has revealed that L1 use is less problematic than once believed. That research, however, has yet to consider the multiple contextual factors affecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Pilar Ordóñez--López – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
The impact of attitudes on the learning process and on the academic results achieved by students has been the object of numerous studies, which have shown a connection between attitudes and learning. Similarly, the impact of students' attitudes towards learning a foreign language (mainly English) has been explored from a wide range of…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
Ana María Rojo López; Katarzyna Anna Nowak – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
The use of English in advertising across non-English-speaking countries is pervasive, often seen as a strategy to evoke prestige, modernity, and global appeal. However, its effectiveness may depend on factors such as text length, linguistic complexity, and local language use, which remain underexplored. This study investigates how Spanish and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Role, English (Second Language), Second Languages
Mills, Shantel; Nicoladis, Elena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Previous research has shown that bilinguals respond differently to moral dilemmas posed in each of their languages, tending to make deontologically-based decisions (based on right or wrong) in their first language and utilitarian decisions (bringing about the most good) in their second language. In the present study, we tested several predictors…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Native Language
Saranya Pathanasin – rEFLections, 2025
This study approaches multilingualism on Phuket Island by means of a linguistic landscape (LL) analysis. The data in this study consists of 185 photographs of shop signs taken from popular streets on the island. They were analyzed via a mixed-methods approach. It was found that different languages were purposely chosen to indicate or showcase the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Photography, Signs, Ethnic Groups