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Yuichi Suzuki; Dustin Crowther – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
One key tenet of Global Englishes for Language Teaching (GELT) is that the native English speaker should no longer serve as the role model for second language (L2) English users. Such a view does not discount that some degree of linguistic knowledge is necessary for successful global communication. However, GELT scholarship has remained relatively…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gerrard Mugford; Andrea Borda; Michelle Vidales Espinoza; Andrea Mora Ramos; Daniela Aketzalli Sanchez Mayoral – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Whilst teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) rightly focuses on meaningful and purposeful transactional language use, interpersonal language is often downplayed or given cursory treatment even though it is an equally essential and perhaps even more fulfilling dimension of target language interaction. Interpersonal language as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Xin Yuan; Xuan Tang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Aim: From the perspective of cognitive load theory, the present study examined the relative effectiveness of the sequential use of L1 and bilingual subtitles on incidental English vocabulary learning. Methods: A total of 162 upper-intermediate Chinese learners of English as a foreign language watched an English clip in one of 4 subtitling…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Recall (Psychology), Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Maria Luisa Pérez Cavana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
The significance of the body in learning and speaking a foreign language is an under-researched topic in a field characterized by a strong focus on cognition and sociolinguistics. This paper is designed to contribute to a newly emerging line of inquiry addressing the move away from the pure linguistic approach towards a more humanistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Human Body
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Atsushi Iida – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This qualitative, case-study research explores the English language learning history of a Japanese pre-service teacher by analysing five English-language poems and a self-reflective essay regarding her experiences of learning the target language. The methodology chosen in this study was a poetic inquiry through which the investigator reconstructed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning
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Simone E. Pfenninger; Mason A. Wirtz – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The main goal of this paper is to suggest a combination of data analyses -- notably generalized additive models, time-series clustering methodology, visual methods for significance testing and qualitative analyses -- that relate to Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). To this end, we report on findings from a larger project conducted in a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Sze Ching Tsoi; Scott Aubrey – ELT Journal, 2024
This study investigated the impact of student-selected pairs on emotional engagement and language-learning opportunities generated during collaborative tasks. Sixteen learners of English at a Hong Kong secondary school performed collaborative tasks in two pairing arrangements: student-selected pairing and teacher-assigned pairing (mixed…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cristina Valencia Mazzanti – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to portray the complex language practices of multilingual children when learning mathematics. To do so, I draw on data collected as part of a three-year research study that was designed to understand the relationship between young children's language use and mathematics learning, focusing on…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction, Journal Writing
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Hengwen Yang; Xiufeng Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper explores the understanding and application of epicene pronouns in English among Chinese EFL learners. Thirty-three Chinese college students took part in a questionnaire to gauge their perceptions and usage of English epicene pronouns. A content analysis of 10 English grammar textbooks was also undertaken to discover current vernacular…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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Yeojoo Yoon; Pool Ip Dong – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
This study explores the captivating world of toy unboxing videos as a space for emergent bilingual children to engage in translanguaging practices. Through the lens of translanguaging, which encourages the unrestricted use of full linguistic repertoires, this research examines the experiences of two five-year-old immigrant and emergent bilingual…
Descriptors: Play, Bilingualism, Toys, Second Language Learning
Wenyuan Gu – Online Submission, 2023
For English as a Second Language (ESL) students or English Language Learners (ELLs), the use of various adverbial clauses was summarized and illustrated of comparison, concession, condition, degree, manner, place, proportion, purpose, reason (or cause), result, and time, including the non-finite clauses, some prepositions, and prepositional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Stephanie Eller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative multi-case study examined the co-construction of elementary dual language students' language use and identity to understand how five individual students positioned themselves as bilingual individuals as well as how this relates to their investment in the language-learning process. This study also investigated the influence of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pariwat Imsa-ard – rEFLections, 2025
Recently, there has been a rapid growth in the number of studies related to emotions and positive psychology constructs in language teaching and learning. However, there is scant research in the context of low exposure to English. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between Thai EFL secondary school learners' L2 positive and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Nikolay Slavkov – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
Linguistic risks are situations in which learners are pushed out of their comfort zone to use the target language in meaningful and authentic settings. This article outlines a novel pedagogical and research approach to language learning through linguistic risk-taking. I review the construct of linguistic risk from interdisciplinary perspectives…
Descriptors: Risk, Language Usage, French, Second Language Learning
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Alastair Henry; Cecilia Thorsen; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In many contexts of multilingualism, language learners can initiate communication in the target language (TL), or a contact language (such as English). Patterns of use emerging from these choices affect TL development. They also vary between individuals. Willingness to communicate (WTC) needs to be investigated in ways that capture these…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Swedish
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