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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
[Characters Omitted]: Negotiating Masculinities and Intersubjectivities in English Language Learning
Evripidou, Dimitris – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Post-structuralist theories of language and gender have become increasingly attractive to language learning researchers. However, masculinity, as part of a socially and culturally constructed system, in relation to English language learning has rarely been investigated. The current study examines how male English language learners negotiate their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Greek, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Farrell, Thomas S. C.; Kun, Serena Tan Kiat – Applied Linguistics, 2008
The widespread use of a local variety of English, Singapore Colloquial English, or Singlish, has become somewhat of a controversial issue in Singapore especially in the eyes of the Singapore government. For example, in 2002 the Singapore government launched The "Speak Good English Movement" (SGEM) with the objective of promoting the use…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Ruhlemann, Christoph – Applied Linguistics, 2008
Owing to analyses of large spoken corpora the linguistic knowledge of conversation has grown in recent years exponentially. Up until now little of this knowledge has trickled down to the EFL classroom. One of the reasons, this paper argues, is the failure in the relevant literature to spell out clearly how teaching conversational grammar affects…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Speech, Oral Language, English (Second Language)

Weinert, Regina – Applied Linguistics, 1995
Provides a survey of the second language literature on the role of formulaic language, focusing on communicative, production, and learning strategy functions of such language. The need to address the theoretical and methodological difficulties surrounding the definition and identification of formulaic language is discussed. (105 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Definitions, Language Research

Corson, David – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Presents six areas in applied linguistics that might be reformed: (1) the hegemonic nature of theories; (2) dictionary-making; (3) language planning; (4) linguistic nomenclatures; (5) the treatment of standard and non-standard varieties; and (6) the delivery of second language programs. Argues that if critical realism guided applied linguistics,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Critical Thinking, Dictionaries, Language Planning

Scotton, Carol Myers; Bernsten, Janice – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Reviews a study of the role and use of direction-giving in natural conversations of native speakers of American English. An overwhelming uniformity of structure in direction-giving is found. Learners of English as a second language need classroom materials that more accurately reflect the exchanges that occur naturally among native speakers of…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Siegel, Jeff – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Presents the results of research examining the argument that the use of a pidgin or creole will interfere with students' subsequent acquisition of the standard language. The study evaluated a preschool program in Papua New Guinea that uses Melanesian Pidgin English as the medium of instruction for students who later attend an English-medium…
Descriptors: Creoles, Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)