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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Saito, Kazuya; Halimi, Florentina – Applied Linguistics, 2023
The current study contributes to the recent debate on the question whether learner emotions can be intrinsically motivating or whether they are no more than diffuse action tendencies (Dörnyei 2020). Adopting a longitudinal approach, we combined repeated analysis of variances and mixed effects modelling to capture interactions between Foreign…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Isbell, Daniel R.; Crowther, Dustin – Applied Linguistics, 2023
As the global importance of English and its proportion of non-native speakers have continued to grow, research on Global Englishes has prioritized non-native speakers' changing attitudes toward non-native varieties. To investigate changes in attitudes among 'Inner Circle' English speakers, we conceptually replicated Lindemann's (2005) survey of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Undergraduate Students
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Nadja Tadic – Applied Linguistics, 2025
While addressing issues of prejudice and exclusion is crucial for helping adult second language (L2) learners acquire and critique socio-interactional norms of their pluralistic communities, there is still a lack of work examining how teachers can problematize prejudiced talk when it arises in the classroom. Within the detail-oriented frameworks…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
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Yousra Abourehab – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article examines teacher ideologies and multilingual practices in teaching Arabic as a heritage language in the USA. Using indexicality and its nexus to language ideologies, it identifies the key index values assigned to Standard Arabic (SA) and how these shape teacher positioning for teaching Arabic heritage. The article also analyzes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Heritage Education, Arabic
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Jean-Marc Dewaele; Peter Macintyre; Iman Kamal Ahmed; Alfaf Albakistani – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Flow reflects an optimal balance of challenge and skill, which is exhilarating and addictive. The current study investigates the role of three learner emotions (enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom) on the proportion of class time in flow among 165 Arab and Kurdish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in both in-person and online classes.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Arabs, Indo European Languages
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Lee, Carmen – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper probes alternative meanings and processes for decolonizing English that arise from the particular geopolitical histories and identities of Hong Kong and engagement with political and translingual activism. I illustrate the positioning and tension between English, 'Kongish' (a mix of English and localized linguistic resources in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Chinese, Decolonization
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Dovchin, Sender; Dryden, Stephanie – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Drawing on linguistic ethnographic data, this study examines the language-based discriminatory experiences of skilled transnational migrants in the labour market of Australia. Moving beyond two main concepts of 'interlingual' and 'intra-lingual' discrimination in applied linguistics, this article points out the concept of 'translingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Ethnography, Labor Market
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Al Masaeed, Khaled – Applied Linguistics, 2022
The current study takes a bidialectal perspective for the conceptualization of pragmatic competence and its development through illuminating the need for the field to move forward and overcome the standard language ideology in research on L2 pragmatic competence. To this end, it brings bidialectal practices to the forefront to investigate L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad, Semitic Languages
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Litzenberg, Jason – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article considers Intensive English Programs (IEPs) affiliated with higher education institutions of the Global North from the perspective of a decolonial option in which English is viewed as a tool of modernity used for colonization and the maintenance of unequal socioeconomic and power structures. Via nuanced description (Pennycook and…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sifakis, Nicos C – Applied Linguistics, 2019
The article proposes a framework for integrating English as a lingua franca (ELF) research in English language teaching (ELT), predominantly pedagogy, but also teacher education, materials development and evaluation, policy design and planning, assessment and testing. The main concept here is ELF awareness, which orientates a set of principles…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Official Languages, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
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Tseng, Amelia – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This case study examines the consequences of community language attitudes and ideologies on later-generation heritage speakers through qualitative sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of 22 interviews with first- and second-generation Latinos of diverse backgrounds in a major US metropolitan area. The findings show that imposed deficit…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Immigrants, Positive Attitudes, Spanish
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Albury, Nathan John – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This article shows, with Malaysia as a case study, that an ethnonationalist language policy need not have disempowering consequences for minorities. Malaysia politicizes ethnic difference between Malaysians of Malay, Chinese, and Indian descent. Ethnic Malays enjoy economic concessions unavailable to others, law defines Malaysia as Islamic and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Planning, Indians, Folk Culture
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Charalambous, Panayiota; Charalambous, Constadina; Rampton, Ben – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This article explores the fit between orthodox ideas about intercultural language education and situations of acute insecurity. It describes the teaching of Turkish to Greek-Cypriots, introduced in 2003 by the Republic of Cyprus as part of a de-securitization policy. Although these classes were optional, many students regarded Turks as enemies,…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Santello, Marco – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article explores attitudes and response to language selection in advertising targeting Italian bilinguals who belong to a defined speech community. The research builds upon (i) research on multilingual advertising by investigating its attitudinal correlates, and (ii) studies on advertising to bilinguals through the verification of the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Attitudes, Language Fluency, Italian
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Kinsella, Ciara; Singleton, David – Applied Linguistics, 2014
The study reported in this article investigated the proficiency in French of a group of anglophone adult L2 learners of the language, all of whom reported passing regularly for native speakers of French. Tests were administered to these learners to gauge their proficiency in different aspects of French, including a lexico-grammatical measure. A…
Descriptors: French, Language Variation, Native Speakers, Language Proficiency
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