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Agnes Strandberg – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
As teachers' experiences are a prerequisite for developing an understanding of the challenges of teaching, their reflections on the potential of using authentic text in L1 grammar teaching deserves closer attention. This paper presents a focus-group study with six Swedish L1 teachers at upper secondary level during an intervention, in which they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Swedish, Teaching Experience
Jonathan Hancock; Andy Hancock – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This article reports on a national survey of complementary school providers in Scotland to gain insights into their perspectives of the abrupt transition to online learning spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data gathered from a questionnaire (n=34) and in-depth interviews (n=13) covering 19 different heritage languages are analysed through the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Elisabet García González; Liquan Liu; Elizabeth Lanza – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
The first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in school closures and homeschooling for families across the world. This provided a unique scenario to investigate multilingual family language interaction, and specifically, challenges and opportunities for home language (HL) use. This study is rooted in Family Language Policy (FLP) research,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Ronald Shabtaev; Joel Walters; Sharon Armon-Lotem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mountain Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Eastern Caucasus used two heritage languages, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) and Russian. Juhuri was their home and Russian the societal languages prior to migration. In Israel, Juhuri and Russian are Heritage Languages and Hebrew is the societal language. The present study reports on frequency of use and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Generational Differences, Native Language
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Sarin Sok; Liz Bennett – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become an effective learning approach for continuing professional development (PD) and there is an increasing body of literature on MOOC learners' perspectives drawing from a range of the global contexts. However, in developing countries like Cambodia, relatively little research on this phenomenon has been…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Satoko Suzuki – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article examines how female L1-Japanese professors who teach Japanese language and culture on U.S. campuses present their identity in interviews. An analysis of their narratives reveals that they employed various tactics of intersubjectivity, and presented themselves in complex and strategic ways. Their multiple grounds of identity (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Japanese, Self Concept
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Assadullah Sadiq – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
This article examines four Afghan refugee parents/guardians in Islamabad, Pakistan for their beliefs about literacy and language(s). Semi-structured interviews with each parent/guardian showed that they all highly valued reading and writing as essential life skills. However, while they viewed literacy as having instrumental value, they also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Refugees
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Agoke, Adeola – Modern Language Journal, 2023
In many language classrooms in multilingual nations, standard dialects are associated with and promoted in formal domains. Through classroom pedagogical processes that reify standard language use, other dialects are relegated to informal domains and therefore devalued in classroom settings. Informed by critical pedagogy, this article challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Multilingualism, Instruction
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Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Cristina Illamola; Montserrat Sendra; F. Xavier Vila i Moreno – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the longitudinal development of language attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish over a five-year period in the transition from primary to secondary education of a sample of students (N = 1,143) in Catalonia and Aragon. Two research questions were investigated: (1) How do language attitudes develop over time? and (2) How do…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Spanish, Romance Languages, Longitudinal Studies
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Ó Ceallaigh, T. J.; Ní Shéaghdha, Aoife – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
While research on Irish-medium immersion education (IME) has heralded benefits such as cognitive skills, academic achievement and language and literacy development, many studies have also identified challenges to its successful implementation. Immersion-specific research-validated tools can help school leaders navigate the school self-evaluation…
Descriptors: Irish, Immersion Programs, Educational Quality, Best Practices
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Scott Aubrey; Andrew Philpott – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examined the impact of collaborative pre-task strategic planning followed by rehearsal on the quantity and novelty of content used in task performances when strategic planning is performed in different language conditions in an online classroom. Forty Japanese university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) from two intact…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Aisling Ní Dhiorbháin; Sinéad Nic Aindriú; Lorraine Connaughton-Crean; Pádraig Ó Duibhir – Language and Education, 2024
The participation of multilingual children in minority language immersion programmes is under-researched internationally. The Republic of Ireland (RoI) has become a linguistically and culturally diverse society. In the RoI, parents have the opportunity to educate their child in English-medium or Irish-medium (IM) schools. However, the cohort of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Parents, Immersion Programs, Parent Attitudes
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Malika Jmila – Higher Education Studies, 2024
The present paper investigates one aspect of questionable research practices relating to Arabic L1 learners of foreign languages, namely the use of statistics. The objective of the paper is to argue that reproducible research requires adopting wise practices in linguistics and that the excessive focus on quantification does not seem to serve this…
Descriptors: Arabic, Research Methodology, Statistics, Native Language
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Al Aghar, Tania; Demirci, Helene Christina; Houjeir, Roudaina; McMinn, Melissa; Alzaabi, Khawla Ali Saif – Cogent Education, 2023
This study investigated Arabic teachers' perceptions of the practice of extensive reading (ER) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study was conducted as part of an interdisciplinary research project at one of the largest higher education institutions (HEIs) in the country. The project aimed to develop and launch an Arabic online reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Arabic
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Grover, Virginia L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Scholars have long critiqued points of view in which monolingual perspectives are seen as normative in research on multilingualism. In relation to this "monolingual orientation," however, in which monolingualism is perceived to be the implicit norm, less work has been dedicated to methodological challenges. As disciplinary perspectives…
Descriptors: Criticism, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Language Variation
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