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Aminifard, Amin – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
This study reports on a corpus analysis of the research articles published by Iranians, Chinese, and Turkish authors in the Reading Matrix journal. For this purpose, 62 research articles (373000 words) were meticulously analyzed to determine how the authors project their identities through different types of self-mention practices. Results of the…
Descriptors: Authors, Asians, Academic Language, English (Second Language)
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Boonsuk, Yusop; Ambele, Eric A. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
English nowadays serves as a global lingua franca (ELF) for diverse ethno-lingua users. This research aims to explore how Southern Thai university student's view ELF, and its integration into English language teaching (ELT) in Thailand where English is used as a foreign language (EFL). 250 students from five southern-Thai universities purposely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Universities
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Banatao, Mary Ann B.; Malenab-Temporal, Conchita – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Students' preferences are being shaped by what they view in advertisements. Hence, this study examined the occurrence of code-switching in Philippine TV advertisements. Particularly, it analyzed syntactic patterns of code-switching, pragmatic/discourse functions and motivations present in the code-switched ads aired from the country's giant TV…
Descriptors: Television, Advertising, Code Switching (Language), Syntax
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Lin, Qiuming – English Language Teaching, 2017
The current study aims to investigate the discursive construction and navigation of agency in oral narratives of English learning by Chinese college English majors. Based on the theoretical framework integrating Bamberg et. al.'s theory of identity dilemma and Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics, the study has addressed two research…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
Pallotti, Gabriele, Ed.; Wagner, Johannes, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
Figurel, J. Allen – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language), Language Enrichment
Martinovic-Zic, Aida – 1998
This study investigated the ways in which a bilingual's choice between the minority first language (L1) and the dominant second language (L2), in this case English, suggests the value the language has for the social and in-group identity of the bilingual. Adult bilinguals (n=38) of widely varying L1 backgrounds were surveyed concerning their…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language)
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Starks, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper considers speakers' differing degrees of self-confidence in their bilingual abilities and their effects on reported language use and observed patterns of language choice. One hundred and twenty individuals from New Zealand's four largest Pasifika communities--Samoan, Cook Islands, Tongan and Niuean--reported on their self-confidence in…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Malayo Polynesian Languages
McDonald, Thomas F.; Moody, Earl – 1969
The basic objectives of the ABC Project, conducted at Tolleson Elementary School during the 1968-69 school year, were to give all disadvantaged migrant children the opportunity to develop a positive self image, build basic language communication patterns, and learn about their present environment in a natural and intellectually stimulating…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged