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Anas Hajar; Ali Ait Si Mhamed – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper explores eight Kazakhstani postgraduate students' reflections of their international educational experiences in the UK after their immediate re-entry into Kazakhstan. Special focus was on their language identity development after their one-year stay in the UK. It was informed by Benson et al.'s ([2013]. "Second Language Identity in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Jafari, Rasoul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Language Minorities
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Mohammadi, Mohammad; Yousefi, Mohammad Hosssein – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2019
This paper addresses Iranian English as Foreign Language teachers and learners' perceptions of explicit grammar instruction and corrective feedback and the effect of language background on learners' perceptions of explicit grammar teaching. The research background indicates that explicit instruction and corrective feedback can play a significant…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Grammar, Student Attitudes
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Mirshahidi, Shahriar – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Although Article 15 of the Iranian constitution endorses non-Persian Languages, speakers of these minority languages are latently obligated to speak Persian, the majority language, in most social settings. Consequently, these Iranian L2 speakers of Persian give rise to certain attitudes towards their accented speech, particularly from speakers of…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Indo European Languages, Semitic Languages, Language Variation
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Gilmetdinova, Alsu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to shed light on potential driving forces that guide principals' decisions on how to implement language policies in their schools in Kazan, Russia. Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan and home for the second biggest ethnic group in Russia, called Tatars, whose native language proficiency is gradually declining. After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Literacy, Second Language Learning