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Elizabeth Huntley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Sociolinguistic variation (SLV) entails that language is affected by social context (i.e. register, pragmatics). Interest in the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a second language (L2-SLV), as a key component of communicative competence, has grown exponentially over the past thirty years (Geeslin & Long, 2014). Researchers have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Vocabulary Development
Cristina Flores – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the context of language diversity in schools, this research underscores the persistence of monolingual academic standards despite linguistic variety. Bilingual education, historically intertwined with sociopolitical agendas aligning with dominant societal power structures, necessitates a paradigm shift. Bilingual educators must empower students…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning
DuBois, Stefan Karsten – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Extensive literature demonstrates that, with extended contact and high integrative motivation, L2 speakers gradually acquire L2 nonstandard variation over time as a result of interaction with speakers of the target language (Dewaele & Regan 2001, Dewaele 2002, Nagy et al. 2003, Raish 2015, Salgado-Robles 2011). Yet, some learners fear that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English, Spanish, Standard Spoken Usage
Yawei Li – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research is about the underlying process language learners rely on to be able to engage effectively in unscripted conversations without premeditation, or "improvisation." To engage in improvisation in another language, one needs to recognize those elements of the evolving cultural context that are significant at the moment. By…
Descriptors: Languages, Asian Culture, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Jennifer M. Ono – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study provides a radical transformative framing of the power language dynamic in K-6 classrooms in the U.S. The quantitative phase of the study determined the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy and the use of linguistically responsive techniques in the classroom. The study's qualitative phase…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Creoles
Creel, Samantha – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The present study aimed to catalogue and compare usage patterns of verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in Modern Standard Arabic and English by native and learner writers. Building upon an analysis of a multi-genre monolingual Arabic corpus, use of both Arabic and English VPCs was explored in a bilingual L1 (first language) Arabic L2 (second…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Standard Spoken Usage, Bilingualism, Native Language
Marcella Caprario – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication, in which English is used as a common language among interlocutors of different first languages, successful communication often features communication strategies that enhance mutual understanding and relationship management. Although prior research suggests that including such strategies in English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Intervention
Maredil Josefina Leon Cedeno – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Standard Language Ideology has historically permeated second/foreign language education, disseminating the belief that a homogeneous "standard" language, which belongs to its native speakers only, is ideal and preferable. In the context of English language teaching (ELT), this type of language ideology has traditionally functioned as a…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Havva Zorluel Ozer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Translanguaging, an emergent theoretical orientation to language, has become a widely discussed topic in writing studies with the rise of translingual movement in composition. Challenging the ideologies of standardization and monolingualism, translanguaging forwards towards a pedagogy of difference and facilitates transcending the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Writing Instruction
Yeh, Shu-Han – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the teachability of Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs hence) in a Modern Chinese foreign language classroom. Specifically, the basic question to be examined is this: to what extent two instructional paradigms--explicit versus implicit instruction--affect learners' knowledge and ability to use SBUs. For…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
Humeidan, Bilal – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Research on Arabic as a foreign language has centered on studying students' attitudes toward the problems of learning Arabic as a foreign/second language. Because little is currently known about language use within the Arabic classrooms, this study aimed to investigate how students perceive the use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and colloquial…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semitic Languages
Mullen, Natalie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the experiences and perceptions of multilingual international undergraduate students with English language policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in order to better understand the larger issue of language ideology and language practices amid the context of the internationalization of higher…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students
Betters, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the past century, French has shifted from being the native language of many Louisianans to being an endangered dialect. Since the creation of the state agency CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) in the 1960's, efforts have been made to revitalize French in Louisiana, and since the 1980's, some parishes have offered…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kim, Jung Sook – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Diversity is valued and promoted in contemporary public discourse, but on the other hand, there is a strong tendency to homogenize differences in society. The tension between diversity and homogeneity is palpable on U.S. college campuses as the number of international students has been ever-increasing. A more nuanced approach is needed to grapple…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Qu, Wanling – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The emergence of transnational joint venture universities provides a new model of education internationalization where the stakes are high and where the opportunities to study the under-researched field of student intercultural engagement are multidimensional and compelling. Since their institutional mission statements often involve language about…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, International Education
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