Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has received scholarly attention in recent years, only a few studies have investigated the current diversification efforts in the industry in terms of hiring teachers from various…

Based on video recordings of five pre-k to grade 4 Chinese dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers' classroom instruction, this article examines the Chinese DLBE teachers' target and first language use and pedagogical moves during their processes of learning to teach in immersion schools in the US. Conversational analyses of classroom…

Focuses on the roles, relationships, and talk of two kinds of teachers--language specialists and subject specialists--in multilingual and multicultural mainstream English secondary school classrooms. An analysis is undertaken of how the teachers are differently constructed through their discursive, pedagogic classroom practices. (Author/VWL)