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Yaron Matras; Katie Harrison; Leonie Elisa Gaiser; Stephanie Connor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing on interviews with staff from Language Supplementary Schools (LSS) in Manchester (UK), we discuss the emergence of makeshift ideologies whereby actors seek to legitimise choices and policies of heritage language transmission in the diaspora setting. Actors discuss the use of regional and vernacular varieties, the consideration given to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
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Mohammadi Darabad, Ali; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Mowlaie, Bahram; Rostami Abusaeedi, Ali-Asghar – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study aimed at investigating the English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' perceptions of L1-based and L2-based elicitations in the English classroom employing an explanatory sequential mixed-method design. Ninety-seven Iranian intermediate EFL learners of English have been selected from Islamic Azad University (Science and Research…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Dogru, Erdogan; Özen, Rasit – Participatory Educational Research, 2023
This research aimed to investigate the effects of giving learners self directed learning (SDL) instruction based on the Staged Self-Directed Learning Model (SSDLM) during distance English learning on their SDL readiness, achievement, attitudes toward English course and distance education. The study sample consisted of one hundred forty-six…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khuong Vo Van; Phuong Ngo Le Hoang; Huy Nguyen Van – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Situated against the increasingly popular role of English and the internationalization of higher education, English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has become an observable phenomenon in Vietnamese tertiary education. However, there is still a dearth of studies looking at how EMI is viewed and understood by students from different disciplines.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Gülnur Aydin; Huriye Özlen Avaroglu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2023
This relational survey study aims to determine the relationship between the attitudes of students learning Turkish as a second language towards Turkish culture and their social cohesion. The participants were determined by criterion sampling. 189 international learners studying Turkish at various Turkish universities participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Turkish
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Sakire Erbay Çetinkaya; Mustafa Naci Kayaoglu – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2024
Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) refers to teaching English as a truly international medium via exposing learners to diversity, adopting a broad cultural view, fostering sensitivity and responsibility, being sensitive to the local culture of learning, and equipping learners with communication strategies. To put this lately…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Frida Unsiah; Nur Mukminatien; Mirjam Anugerahwati; Utari Praba Astuti; Fika Megawati – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The establishment of an English Medium Instruction (EMI) program in any educational level including the university context becomes a controversial issue regarding whether the program should be kept running or not. The present study was conducted to investigate students' voices of EMI based on their different exposure period to English. To obtain…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Aysu, Semahat – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study aims to compare the opinions of optional and compulsory preparatory class students about learning English and the target culture. Furthermore, students' reasons to learn English are examined in terms of independent variables (gender, going abroad and status of prep class). In the present study, data are gathered through a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jaramillo Cherrez, Nadia; Nadolny, Larysa – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Speaking in a foreign/second language is a challenge for many learners, even when they have linguistic knowledge. Drawing on González-Lloret and Ortega's (2014) framework for technology-mediated tasks and MacIntyre's (2007) framework for willingness to communicate in a second language, this mixed methods study investigated the impact of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Etienne, Corinne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article explores French L1 speakers' attitudes toward French L2 speakers' negation use. Negation in prescriptive grammars calls for a pre-verbal ne and a post-verbal element like "pas." Although orally "ne" deletion is frequent, it is rarely or never taught. One common, albeit meagerly supported, explanation is that L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kari Sahan; Özgür Sahan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study examines the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education through the lens of neoliberalism and linguistic entrepreneurship. Although commonly reported benefits of EMI include improved English proficiency and better job opportunities, there is a lack of research critically examining the relationship between EMI and…
Descriptors: Alumni, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Grace Hui Chin Lin – Online Submission, 2024
The primary goal of this project is to assess the students' better communication attainment after applying a series of five interactive strategies to an experiment group of subjects. This class will be compared with a control group of other participants, and in their class, the interactive approaches are not emphasized and practiced openly. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Banko, Miroslaw; Witalisz, Alicja; Hansen, Karolina – Language Awareness, 2022
This article reports on a study whose aim was to analyze the relation between the level of declarative purism and the preference for a particular loanword adaptation technique. Evidence from many languages shows that language purists accept foreign words more readily if they are in a native disguise; as a consequence, they choose adaptation…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Polish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Softa, Valbona Loshi – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
English foreign language has recently become an obligatory subject in the elementary school curricula since the first grade in Albanian education system. This paper presents the attitudes of high school students towards the context of learning the language, addressed by two scales, according to International Attitude Motivation Test Battery,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Lengyel, Drorit; Salem, Tanja – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Our paper presents the methodological approach of group discussions and documentary method to investigate team beliefs in Early Childhood Education and Care facilities. The research addresses the question of how team beliefs on multilingualism and language education are shaped. To reconstruct team beliefs, we used group discussions and the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Teacher Attitudes
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