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Naomi Kurata – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Despite an increasing number of studies that explore language learning beyond the classroom (LBC), research examining LBC activities in relation to in-class learning is very limited. This paper investigates what kinds of LBC activities university students of Chinese and Japanese in Australia engage in and how they connect these activities to…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Informal Education, Chinese, Japanese
Xiaomei Sun – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Despite the difficulty of defining young adult literature (YAL), the benefits of it have been well recognised for adolescent learners. With the aim of exploring pedagogical approaches to L2 literature, this study reports on a YAL reading programme carried out in a secondary EFL classroom in China. To gain both teacher and student perspectives,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), English Literature
Banegas, Darío Luis – Language Learning Journal, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the outcomes of teacher educator-initiated action research (AR) process at a teacher education institution in southern Argentina. This process was triggered by a challenge which emerged in the 2016 academic year: how to teach a linguistics module through English to low-level English language users in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Teachers, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Porto, Melina – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study reports on the evaluation of long-term impact of four intercultural citizenship projects undertaken in university foreign language classrooms. Curricular developments based on Byram's intercultural citizenship theory have demonstrated the immediate impact including the development of self and intercultural awareness, criticality, social…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Justice
Conroy, Mark Andrew – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This study explored the experiences and language gains of Chinese-background English language learners living in homestays during a short-term study abroad (SA) programme in Australia. Forty-one learners took part in listening dictation pre- and post-tests to assess their acquisition of idiomatic phrasal verbs, and also completed weekly journals…
Descriptors: Chinese, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Diaries
Vanderplank, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Watching foreign language programmes and films with captions (same-language subtitles intended for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) has been shown to assist learners in phonetic retuning, vocabulary acquisition and listening comprehension [e.g. Mitterer and McQueen, 2009. Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech…
Descriptors: Films, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Italian