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Fan Fang; Xinxin Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Figueiredo, S. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
This study compares the achievement of two cohorts of immigrants with ages between 7 and 30 years old. Two sets of participants were assessed in two points in time and in different regions of Portugal. 169 students with similar immigration conditions for this analysis (nationality, length of residence, previous education in the country of origin)…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Children, Adolescents, Young Adults
Arnaus Gil, Laia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Literature on early language acquisition has observed that age of onset of acquisition (AoA) is relevant for certain grammatical phenomena. Simultaneous bilinguals receive regular and extensive exposure to two languages from birth (Müller, 2009), whereas sequential child learners get in extensive contact to L[subscript B] once the L[subscript A]…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Variation, Romance Languages, Phrase Structure
Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland – Language Testing, 2023
This study explores whether and to what extent the background information supplied by 10,155 immigrants who took an official language test in Norwegian affected their chances of passing one, two, or all three parts of the test. The background information included in the analysis was prior education, region (location of their home country),…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adults, Second Language Learning, Norwegian
Erarslan, Ali; Asmali, Mehmet – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2022
Introduction: Motivation plays a central role in teachers' instructional practices. Teaching quality and teacher effectiveness contribute positively to student achievement. In line with this, teachers face several tasks in their profession, and they exhibit various motivational levels consisting of different motivational constructs, such as…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Li, Ming; Zhang, Lubei; Tsung, Linda – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores Tibetan students' L2 and L3 motivational systems and their interactions based on the framework of the L2 Motivational Self-System proposed by Dörnyei. Five hundred fifty-two participants were invited to respond to a questionnaire regarding their Chinese (L2) and English (L3) motivational selves, learning experiences and…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Studies into the use of mobile applications (apps) for language learning have found positive results on language improvement and learner engagement, but they have mostly focused on small samples of learners using apps that were selected by a researcher/educator rather than on learners using apps of their own choice. This article presents the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Assisted Instruction
Liu, Qian; Colak, Fatma Zehra; Agirdag, Orhan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study of multilingualism has gained prominence due to increases in linguistically diverse student populations. This paper aims to contribute to research on multilingualism by addressing schoolteachers' beliefs and practices related to linguistic diversity. A unique sample of 606 teachers across ten minority-dominant schools from Southwest…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Language Minorities
Luo, Dehong; Gong, Jing – SAGE Open, 2022
Home language (HL) effects on academic language literacy have been extensively discussed. However, previous research has mostly focused on Indo--European languages. This study extends the literature by using data (n = 17,600) collected in a diversified language area: Guangxi, China. We examined the effects of four HLs and four socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Academic Language, Literacy, Socioeconomic Influences
Gonzalez Martinez, Juan; Blas Arroyo, Jose Luis – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
An analysis of the language attitudes in the adjacent regions of Els Ports (in the province of Castellon, Spain) and Matarranya (in the province of Teruel, Spain) using the matched-guise technique shows that in both areas, Catalan and Spanish coexist today in a diglossic situation in which Catalan has instrumental values that are lower than those…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
He, Hao – English Language Teaching, 2008
Minority students' English learning is a special and an indispensable component of English education system in China. This article studies students' linguistic knowledge that live in Northwestern China--Gan Nan Autonomy State of Gan Su Province with majority population of Tibetan, mixed with Chinese and some Muslim. An analogous analysis is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Minorities, Sino Tibetan Languages, Ethnic Groups