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Dearden, Julie; Macaro, Ernesto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
We report on a small scale study carried out in Austria, Italy and Poland which investigated the attitudes of university teachers engaged in teaching their academic subject through the medium of English. The data consisted of 25 teacher interviews. We focused on the topics of internationalisation of universities, on policy and resourcing, and on…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Djigunovic, Jelena Mihaljevic – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
In this qualitative study the author focuses on age effects on young learners' L2 development by comparing the L2 learning processes of six young learners in an instructed setting: three who had started learning English as L2 at age 6/7 and three who had started at age 9/10. Both earlier and later young beginners were followed for three years…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Learning Motivation, Qualitative Research
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Gregersen, Tammy; MacIntyre, Peter D.; Finegan, Kate Hein; Talbot, Kyle; Claman, Shelby – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Emotional intelligence has not been widely studied in second language acquisition and studies published to date have been questionnaire-based. In this study we take a qualitative approach to focus on how emotional intelligence is used by two participants, one a learner and the other a pre-service teacher. The two focal participants were selected…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Psychology, Well Being, Intervention