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Daron Benjamin Loo; Jariya Sairattanain – English in Education, 2024
In Malaysia and some parts of Southeast Asia, efforts to decolonise the English language classroom remain minimal. While there are scholars who advocate criticality towards western-centric perspectives on language education, related work has largely been confined to individual teachers' classrooms. This is further problematised when students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Hywel Coleman; Nur Fauzan Ahmad; Nilawati Hadisantosa; Kuchah Kuchah; Martin Lamb; Dana Waskita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Research on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) has tended to have a technicist orientation, examining for example how it is implemented and the challenges it has encountered. Much less critical attention has been given to the rationales that language policy makers and other stakeholders offer for introducing EMI - the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deans, Higher Education, College Students
Eliana Maritza Alarcón Camacho – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the analysis performed on the way in which grammar is presented in an English coursebook created by the Ministry of Education of Colombia (MEN) to provide contextualized material to learners in public school settings. The evaluation criteria to evaluate the grammar were developed considering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue. What makes applied linguistic concept formation possible? A number of elementary concepts and ideas are so basic to the discipline that they can neither be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Instructional Design
Yecid Ortega – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Using a critical approach, I discuss the socioeconomic power impact of capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Colombia, described as a symbolic annihilation process. I argue how these three constructs have influenced language policy-decisions making processes and classroom practices…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Global Approach
Tiare Gonzalez-Vidal; Paul Moore – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: The professional experiences of teachers of languages and cultures, along with the learning experiences of their students, are embedded in educational contexts, which themselves are informed, and constrained, by national language policies. This study aims to explore 51 English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) secondary teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhanna K. Makhanova; Natalya V. Dmitryuk; Gulbanu B. Makhanova – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The importance of addressing the linguodidactic problems of intercultural communication in the multilingual educational space of the Republic of Kazakhstan lies in the fact that by 2021, the Programme of trilingual education in the region, adopted for implementation in the early 2000s, will have reached its final stage. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Ethnic Groups, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Daniel Garzon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The founding and inception of Coral Way's bilingual program marked the beginning of Miami's multilingual era, as well as the start of modern bilingual education in the U.S. As multilingual and multicultural Miami has evolved, bilingual programming has not remained a priority in the school district. This dissertation study examines how language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnography, Language Usage, Language Planning
Pitychoutis, Konstantinos M. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Teachers' beliefs on language learning play a pivotal role in teachers' classroom practices and are thought to be stable. This article aims to show the change in the teacher-trainees' beliefs after taking an online second language acquisition (SLA) course as opposed to the traditional face-to-face SLA course from previous studies. The participants…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preservice Teachers
Hashemnezhad, Hossein – HOW, 2022
The purpose of the present study is to conduct a qualitative content analysis to explore factors affecting EFL learning in Iran. To achieve this aim, the researcher carried out face-to-face unstructured interviews with 10 EFL teachers and 12 university students. The researcher used MAX QDA 10 (Qualitative Data Analysis) software to analyze the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Olaya-Mesa, Marian Lissett; Mora, Willian Alexander – HOW, 2023
Teacher´s beliefs and conceptions of teaching English are an important area for the professional development path of primary teachers. Giving primary teachers opportunities to grow professionally and support their learning belongs to the wide variety of practices that can be implemented to foster early education today. To do that, the Colombian…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Duarte, Joana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
It is undeniable that English has become the worldwide lingua franca for the academic world. Many countries have therefore opted for Higher Education programmes fully in English, of which the Netherlands is the frontrunner. Language policies that include drawing on students plurilingual repertoires could offer the opportunity to employ several…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
De La Cruz Albizu, Pedro J. – Language and Education, 2020
School principals are street-level bureaucrats whose sense-making about language policies makes them de-facto policy makers. In turn, their language policy-making is mediated by their language ideologies and contexts. Using a case study methodological framework, this article explores the language ideologies of 11 New York City elementary school…
Descriptors: Principals, Language Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Policy Formation
Hosan, Shamim; Masud, Nuruddin Ahmed; Subarna, Mst Taherun Nesa – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2022
Teaching English as a foreign language is an apparently challenging task, especially when it is done in an area where English learn a very slight purpose. This study sought to investigate the challenges of English teaching as well as solutions adopted by English teachers in the Savar area. Moreover, the main objective of this research is to find…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Zhang, Mengjia; Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
HEIs (Higher education institutions) in mainland China are making enormous efforts to implement internationalization. As a result, EMI (English-medium instruction) courses are growing rapidly in number and popularity while relevant research is still insufficient in comparison to European countries. Besides, although much existing research has…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning