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Stephanie Wessels; Guy Trainin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study examined the home literacy practices of bilingual families. We were specifically interested in the literacy practices families developed to answer the challenge of biliteracy. Through the home visits and supplying high quality bilingual books, we listened, observed, and gained a deeper understanding of the children and their families…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Literacy, Children, Books
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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
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Akif Çal; Tessa Mearns; Wilfried Admiraal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2025
This study aims to explore to what extent engineering students' perceptions of the role of English in the workplace are affected by their internship and field of study. Previous research revealed that employers value engineers' English communication skills highly. However, mismatches between workplace expectations and engineers' competencies…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Language Role
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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
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Judit Kormos; Kathrin Eberharter; Elisa Guggenbichler; Simone Baumgartinger; Viktoria Ebner; Benjamin Kremmel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Authentic listening increasingly involves being able to pause or replay recordings as needed. In this study, we investigated differences in the reported use of listening strategies and listening anxiety between single-play and self-paced test administration. We also analyzed the interrelationships among first language (L1) literacy skills, second…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension Tests, Literacy
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Reni Kusumaningputri – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the existence of many studies on the identity of language learners in the offline settings, few focus on how English language learners in the expanding circle construct their identity through their use of English and their choices over their first language capital as they enjoy variations of multilinguacultural exposes in the digital…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Official Languages, Language Role, English (Second Language)
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Soili Norro – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The main focus of the article is on teachers' classroom language practices in eight primary schools in Oshana and Khomas school regions. Language ideologies and translanguaging practices were used as a theoretical framework to evaluate the language ecologies that were created by the language practices in the schools included in the research study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Eleftheria Christou; Nathan Thomas; Jim McKinley – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The global expansion of English has raised a call for English-language teachers around the world to frame English as an international language (EIL). This is especially true in rapidly developing contexts such as China, where teachers are expected to prepare learners to engage effectively in intercultural interactions. As such, the present study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Frida Unsiah; Nur Mukminatien; Mirjam Anugerahwati; Utari Praba Astuti; Fika Megawati – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The establishment of an English Medium Instruction (EMI) program in any educational level including the university context becomes a controversial issue regarding whether the program should be kept running or not. The present study was conducted to investigate students' voices of EMI based on their different exposure period to English. To obtain…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction