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Download full textKöroglu, Zeynep Çetin; Elban, Mehmet – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Textbooks can change, shape, and affect the formation of identity of those who learn the target language rather than teaching the language. In this study, the textbooks determined by the Ministry of National Education and used for English lessons in public high schools were analyzed with the content analysis method in terms of national identity…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Global Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Khouya, Youssef Baba – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study was conducted to investigate the problem of demotivation in English language learning (ELL) within the Moroccan context. To attain this objective, two instruments were adopted: a questionnaire and a writing test. The participants involved in this study were 201 baccalaureate students (second year) from six secondary schools, 84 were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Chakraborty, Rahul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper discusses the interrelations among accent-based biases, social identity and ethnocentrism. Construction of social identity creates a set of ethnocentric values within a person, which indirectly or directly plays a pivotal role in generating accent related biases. Starting with Tajfel's (1959) social identity theory and then the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Social Bias, Ethnocentrism, Speech Language Pathology
Zebari, Sanan Shero Malo; Allo, Hussein Ali Ahmed; Mohammedzadeh, Behbood – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The present study aimed to set a plan for teaching EFL classes based on the identification of university students' dominant multiple intelligences in EFL classes, and the differences in the types of intelligence between female and male students in terms of their gender. The problem the present study aimed to address is that the traditional concept…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Abdullah, Shumaila; Akhter, Javed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The aim of this research paper is to find out by comparing and contrasting between the adults and children in second language learning process how language ego of adult learners affects them to learn second language, and how it becomes a barrier for them in second language learning process. Nowadays learning English as foreign and second language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Chen, Joanna – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Within the frameworks of Sociocultural theory, particularly Vygotskian sociocultural theory and ZPD, Lave and Wenger's CoP, and contemporary sociocultural theory, this paper seeks to examine the unfavourable scholarly portrayal of learners and their identities based on learners' behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs about the social element of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yeh, Shu-Fen – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
In recent times, researchers of second language learning have suggested that second language learning is not simply a cognitive or linguistic issue, but is also a social, political, and cultural one (e.g., Atkinson, 2002; Firth & Wagner, 1997; Larsen-Freeman, 2007). Research on student teachers' identity (e.g., Atkinson, 2004; Day &…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Responsibility
Ahmad, Waqar; Ali, Zuraina; Sipra, Muhammad Aslam; Taj, Imtiaz Hassan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Smartboards, which are now widely used in the teaching and learning process in Saudi Arabia, have turned the traditional environments of the classrooms, especially the EFL classrooms to be more interesting and encouraging. Literature reviews suggest that Saudi students usually lack motivation for studying English as a foreign language. This study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
