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De Costa, Peter I., Ed.; Li, Wendy, Ed.; Lee, Jongbong, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills. The book…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Academic Language
Elena I. Shpit; Philip M. McCarthy – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Virtually all researchers understand the requirement of presenting their studies in peer-reviewed English-medium journals. Russian scientific writers understand this necessity too; however, evidence suggests that these particular researchers are under-performing relative to similar non-native English speakers. The considerable challenge Russians…
Descriptors: Russian, Engineering Education, Researchers, English (Second Language)
Jie Wang; Yen Na Yum – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Learners entering higher education may learn specialized vocabulary of new disciplines in their second language (L2) with or without support from their first language (L1). However, these learners cannot rely on an established conceptual representation in L1 when learning L2 specialized vocabulary. The effects of learning a new concept in L1 prior…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training, Learning Processes
Lee, Eshani N.; Nealy, Schetema; Cruz, Laura – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
The unforeseen shift to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic required instructors and students to face unprecedented learning challenges. Under these circumstances, Chinese international students who intended to come to the U.S. to begin their studies were required to remotely access their courses while still residing in China, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Computer Simulation, Laboratory Experiments
Aguilar-Pérez, Marta; Khan, Sarah – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: Research on EMI (English-Medium Instruction) has addressed the extent to which content lecturers speaking in their L1 perform as well as when they lecture in English. In this study a lecturer who gave the same lecture in his L1 (Catalan) and English was observed to examine if and how transitioning from one language to another impacts his…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kyounghye Kate Park – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This doctoral dissertation explores diverse facets of online research and comprehension among college students with English as a second or foreign language (L2 students). The research involves three distinct investigations within this overarching theme. Firstly, the study delves into the online reading and writing practices employed by Korean L2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Protocol Analysis, Korean
Séror, Jérémie; Gentil, Guillaume – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2020
Drawing on the notion of biliteracy as the "the conjunction of literacy and bilingualism," this article reports on multiple ongoing case studies of multilingual university students developing academic literacies simultaneously in French and English. Interview data and textual and video records of students' writing practices were used to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Literacy, Language Minorities
Hoff, Meagan A. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
Relatively little is known about the long-term academic literacy development of refugee-background students, particularly at the postsecondary level. The purpose of this study was to understand how refugee students leveraged their cultural and linguistic resources to navigate a competency-based online college program. Using a multiple case study,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Academic Language, Refugees, College Students
Tai, Hsuan Tai – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
The use of relative pronouns is an intriguing topic for learners and teachers. The past two decades have witnessed exponential growth in research on the use of relative pronouns. However, little attention has been given to relativizer omission among nonnative speakers in writing. This research examined the distribution of zero relativizers and the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Madhav Kafle – Educational Linguistics, 2021
While UNHCR estimates there are approximately 26 million refugees globally, only 1% of them have access to higher education. In US higher education, number of refugee-background students is often not tracked as they tend to be lumped together with other domestic students. While we do have some studies that explore transition and acculturation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Lee, Senyung; Shin, Sun-Young – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Multiple test tasks are available for assessing L2 collocation knowledge. However, few studies have investigated the characteristics of a variety of recognition and recall tasks of collocation simultaneously, and most research on L2 collocations has focused on verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations. This study investigates (1) the relative…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Recall (Psychology)
Barth, Ingrid; Spector-Cohen, Elana; Sitman, Rosalie; Jiang, Guhuai; Liu, Fang; Xu, Yan – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Although open educational resources (OERs) can help bridge high school-university vocabulary gaps, central questions remain unanswered regarding effective design that enables students to go beyond the "small chunks" that typically characterize vocabulary learning in mobile learning environments (MLEs). This bi-national study adopted a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Vocabulary Development, Independent Study
Burke, Rachel – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Language practices represent significant barriers to engagement in higher education for many learners from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. In Australia, such students may be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners, students from rural and remote locations, learners who are the first in their family to access higher education,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Nonstandard Dialects
Viera, Julian; Kosheleva, Olga M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Studies which investigate "translanguaging," best practices, and literacy in teaching mathematics for English Language Learners (ELLs) is common in the educational literature. Studies on how ELLs self-efficacy are affected by online cognitive tutors are not common, and there is even less research on how ELLs engage with technology in an…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Equal Education, Educational Opportunities