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Filipi, Anna; Chuang, Mu-Sen Kevin – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study explored the language practices of a small group of international Chinese students in an anglophone Higher Education context where English was the medium of instruction. The context was the first year of an early childhood education course at an Australian university. Building on findings from research in conversation analysis on…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Newman, Trent – Language Policy, 2021
In this article I examine lecturers' beliefs about the use of Tetum for academic, scientific and vocational communication at university in Timor-Leste and discuss the discursive and performative language planning roles that they play in the intellectualisation of the language. Drawing on analysis of recorded discussions among university lecturers…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Language Planning, Language Usage
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Luo, Yuehan – English Language Teaching, 2019
While research on students' perceptions of code-switching in EFL classrooms has proliferated over the past several decades, limited research has been conducted to understand students' perceptions with different levels of language proficiency in English. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected from students with different…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Simasiku, Liswani; Kasanda, Choshi; Smit, Talita – English Language Teaching, 2015
There has been a high failure rate of Grade 10 learners in the year end examinations in the Caprivi Education Region of Namibia over a number of years. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the use of mother tongue in English medium classrooms enhanced learners' academic achievement.The study investigated 12 teachers at 12 schools…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Academic Achievement, Grade 10, Investigations
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Macaro, Ernesto; Lee, Jang Ho – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Using research data on teacher codeswitching in South Korea, this article investigates the attitudes and perceptions among Korean learners of English as a foreign language towards English-only instruction as opposed to instruction which contains some switching to the learners' first language. The study was in part operationalized by exploring…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Questionnaires