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Hashini Abeysena; Indika Liyanage; Minli Zhang – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Affect plays a significant role in language teaching and learning and in use of languages, and this includes the phenomenon of linguistic shame. Although shame is considered personal by many, its origins are social; linguistic shame is inextricably connected to language use as a social practice. In this paper, we focus on English language teacher…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education Programs
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Mei-Ya Liang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This article examines linguaculturally diverse university students' affective translingual practices of using emojis and languages in computer-mediated communication. Research studies have investigated the sociopragmatic uses of emojis from the perspectives of social semiotics, language socialisation, and translingual practices. This study expands…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Computer Mediated Communication, Semiotics, Socialization
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Wagner, Christopher J. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
Reading identities are the ways that a person constructs the self as a reader across contexts and time. This study explores reading identities as a developmental process in multilingual children in prekindergarten and kindergarten. Participants were six children ages three to four participating in a Chinese-English family literacy program over a…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Reading, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
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Qian, David D.; Pan, Mingwei – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Politeness has been a source of inspiration for research in pragmatics and inter- and intra-cultural communication. However, the existing literature focusses more on how politeness is realized in the context of first language use. Few studies have investigated the issue related to the use of English by second language learners from varying…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Business Communication, Letters (Correspondence)
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Cheng, Hsing-Fu; Chen, Hsiang-I; Duo, Pey-Chewn; Wang, Chaochang – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2023
The role of communication variables such as communication apprehension (CA), self-perceived communication competence (SPCC), and intercultural willingness to communicate (IWTC) in improving L2 WTC has rarely been compared or even considered in detail in project-based learning (PBL) classroom contexts. Given this research gap, a mixed-methods study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Projects, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Garrido, Margarida V.; Prada, Marília – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Extant research has compared the processing of affectively laden words between L1 and L2. However, most studies used verbal stimuli that were validated for a single language or for both languages but using independent samples. We systematically compared ratings of valence, emotional intensity and subjective familiarity of negative, neutral,…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Portuguese
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Burgess, Julianne; Rowsell, Jennifer – Language and Education, 2020
In this article, we present a research study with a group of newcomer and refugee learners who have resettled in the Niagara region in Canada to create new lives. Over the course of four months, we came to know the stories of fifteen adult language learners, and we witnessed their steady induction, acceptance and enjoyment of multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language)
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Jung, Youngok – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study examined how in-the-moment behaviour of children and family literacy programme use are associated with the affective quality of mother-child interactions and the content of maternal utterances that occurred during book reading. Ninety-Two Latina mother-child dyads were included. Mothers frequently exhibited warm/positive behaviour and…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Family Literacy, Family Programs, Parent Child Relationship
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Panicacci, Alessandra; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
A majority of multilinguals report feeling different when switching languages [Dewaele, J.-M. (2016). "Why do So Many Bi- and Multilinguals Feel Different When Switching Languages?" "International Journal of Multilingualism" 13 (1): 92-105; Panicacci, A., and J.-M. Dewaele. (2017). "'A Voice from Elsewhere': Acculturation,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Code Switching (Language), Statistical Analysis, Italian
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Bonita Marie Cabiles – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2021
This article explores initial thinking about a pedagogy of discomfort for teaching in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity. To foster inclusive and socially just cultures of participation, contemporary classrooms need to attend to the subtle ways that taken-for-granted teaching practices marginalise diverse cultural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, Classroom Communication, Cultural Background
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Vinagre, Margarita; Corral Esteban, Avelino – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018
The main objective of this study is to explore how students who participate in virtual intercultural exchanges use evaluative language to build rapport and encourage collaboration. Data were gathered from 211 email messages sent by 40 Spanish and American university students and were tagged following Martin and White's Appraisal model.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Self Concept, Intercultural Communication, Electronic Mail
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Busse, Vera; Cenoz, Jasone; Dalmann, Nina; Rogge, Franziska – Language Learning, 2020
Adequately responding to linguistic diversity in the classroom is imperative in European school contexts, not least because of current migratory movements. This article presents the results of an intervention study with primary school English-foreign-language learners in Germany (N = 42, M[subscript age] = 8.70 years) from linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Intervention, Elementary School Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Hadidi, Yaser; Khodadadi, Golsa – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2018
Appraisal/Evaluation within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a rather new framework for the analysis of evaluative language, focusing on how human beings reveal their emotions directly or indirectly, how they take stances, and how they align or disalign themselves with social subjects. Through an attitudinal analysis of the system of…
Descriptors: Speeches, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ayuthaya, Jaruda Rajani Na – rEFLections, 2018
The changing of the English profile to English as an International Language (EIL) has broadened the definition of competent users of English around the world to include the ability to shuffle between English in local contexts (Canagarajah, 2013). However, Thai EFL learners continue to show an inability to understand and use English in…
Descriptors: Singing, Profiles, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lambert, Craig; Philp, Jenefer; Nakamura, Sachiko – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study investigates the benefits of designing second language (L2) learning tasks to operate on learner-generated content (related to actual content in their lives and experiences) as opposed to teacher-generated content typical of current approaches to L2 task design (fictitious ideas and events created to provide an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
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