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Amanda K. Kibler; Martha Sandstead; Sara Wiger; Jane Weiss – Modern Language Journal, 2024
As an international phenomenon, standardization has become increasingly prominent, and language has been curricularized through learning progressions, curricula, and high-stakes assessments. Curricularized systems exist in tension with what we know about how individuals develop language. As scholars have asserted, language development is mediated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Papi, Mostafa; Rios, Angel; Pelt, Hunter; Ozdemir, Esra – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This study investigated the concept of corrective feedback in second language learning as a learning resource, recasting it as "feedback-seeking behavior." Dweck's (1999) mindsets, Korn and Elliot's (2016) achievement goals, and Ashford's (1986) model of feedback-seeking behavior were re-operationalized in the context of language…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, College Students, Decision Making
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Svalberg, Agneta M.-L. – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This article takes the view that grammar is driven by user choices and is therefore complex and dynamic. This has implications for the teaching of grammar in language teacher education and how teachers' cognitions about grammar, and hence their own grammar teaching, might change. In this small, interpretative study, the participants--students on…
Descriptors: Grammar, Student Teachers, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
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Golombek, Paula R. – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This article, grounded in a Vygotskian sociocultural perspective, details the self-inquiry of a language teacher educator who examined her "emotional dissonance" regarding her mediation of the reflection journals of a teacher learner teaching an ESL class during an internship. Data from the teacher learner's reflection journals and the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Inquiry, Self Evaluation (Individuals)