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Friedman, Debra A. – Language Teaching, 2023
In this paper, I argue for expanding language socialization research on the academic discourse socialization of speakers of English as an additional language to less-commonly researched settings outside of English-dominant countries. Following an overview of some theoretical and methodological issues involved in conducting such research, I lay out…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Socialization, English (Second Language), Cultural Differences
Lu-Geng Sun; Jirada Wudthayagorn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study investigated the beliefs, attitudes, and motivation of Thai and Chinese undergraduate students in relation to English language learning. Utilizing a mixed-method, explanatory sequential design, it aims to provide a better understanding of the three variables mentioned above. The quantitative data analysis showed disparities between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Anna Stepanovna Borisova; Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova; Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva; Muhammad Arif Soomro – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
The present study investigates the correlations between socio-biographical variables (such as age, gender, years of studying English language, and educational environment) and foreign language anxiety learning. The study also compares the manifestation of foreign language anxiety among Chinese and Russian university students. A mixed-method of…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Age Differences
Tavares, Vander – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Research on language teacher identity has grown exponentially over the last two decades. By researching language teacher identity, we develop a better understanding of how sociological issues generally impact teachers' lives. For non-native language teachers, in particular, challenges tend to originate from language ideologies around…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Connie Siebold – TESOL Journal, 2024
Multilingual education and acculturation research share a parallel history of problematic research paradigms that center the majority viewpoint and view minorities through a lens of deficit. This continual pathology of cultural difference has led to the pathologization of minority individuals, and has hampered our efforts to effectively understand…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Acculturation
Sucharat Rimkeeratikul – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The research was conducted at a public university in Bangkok, utilizing the Personal Report on Intercultural Communication Apprehension (PRICA) to measure Intercultural Communication Apprehension (ICA). The study aimed to compare the ICA levels among three groups of students within the same university: bachelor's degree students majoring in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Anxiety
Shannon Sampson; Susan Cantrell; Kristen Perry; Olukemi Kolawole – TESOL Journal, 2025
This study explores the validity of the Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) an instrument that measures the implementation of culturally responsive instruction (CRI) in K-8 classrooms with multilingual students. The validity study uses a Rasch measurement approach. With strong findings from analyses, including…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Yazan, Bedrettin; Pentón Herrera, Luis Javier; Rashed, Doaa – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
In this paper, we, as three transnational TESOL practitioners (TTP), engage in a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) to examine our professional identity tensions. Theoretically, we follow the premise that the tensions we experience in our professional life can be productive experiences for identity-oriented reflection and, as we work toward…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Huey-Jye You; Hui-Chin Yeh; Grace Yue Qi – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Telecollaboration has received growing interest in language education as a way of fostering intercultural learning. While the body of literature primarily focuses on the impact of telecollaborative processes on intercultural learning, the effect of supportive mechanisms on intercultural telecollaboration has received little academic attention.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Yuka Akiyama; Lourdes Ortega – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study offers an account of the coming out by Amy, a 20-year-old student of Japanese in Boston who has 'been out to most' as a cisgender lesbian woman, to Yoko, a 19-year-old student of English in Tokyo who experiences culture shock with Amy's revelation. The data originated from an exchange on "Google Hangouts" that was part of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, LGBTQ People, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Xuexue Yang – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2025
This study explores the responsiveness of an elementary teacher's support for emergent bilingual students by examining the connections between the teacher's assessment expertise, formative assessment practices, and emergent bilinguals' unique language needs in math classes. The study, which investigated the indicators that characterize a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods
Paria Aria – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research studied the impact of language barriers and cultural experiences on students' perceptions at the University of North Texas. The population of this study were students who had taken a class with a non-native speaking instructor and those who hadn't. Following a mixed-method research approach, online surveys were distributed to the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
Laura Rocío Ávila Ávila; Rosa Alejandra Medina Riveros – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2024
Conversation clubs are excellent resources for practicing a new language. They bring together individuals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to engage in enriching language activities and discussions that promote intercultural consciousness and intercultural skills. While previous studies have emphasized the importance of conversation…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
Kimsesiz, Fatma – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
As verbal folklore genres, proverbs are an essential part of cultural, social, and linguistic patterns in a given language, yet with universal tendencies present in all languages. As cultural mirrors of a given culture, proverbs may pose a resemblance in meaning and structure across cultures. There are growing appeals for translation studies that…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Proverbs, Foreign Countries, Translation
Nguyen, Huyen-Thanh – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2023
Intercultural sensitivity, which is seen as an affective component of intercultural competence, is crucial to cultivating one's favorable emotions about cultural differences experienced in intercultural communication. This qualitative study was conducted to find out how undergraduate English as a foreign language (EFL) students in Vietnam…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes