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Jenny L. Small; Gordon Maples – About Campus, 2025
As US college campuses continue to be embroiled in demonstrations and internal conflict over the Israel-Hamas War more than one year after its outbreak, it is worth examining how the conflict initially boiled over into American higher education. To this end, the authors analyzed how university leaders chose to initially communicate with their…
Descriptors: War, Terrorism, College Administration, Organizational Communication
Thomas St. Pierre; Jida Jaffan; Craig G. Chambers; Elizabeth K. Johnson – Cognitive Science, 2024
Adults are skilled at using language to construct/negotiate identity and to signal affiliation with others, but little is known about how these abilities develop in children. Clearly, children mirror statistical patterns in their local environment (e.g., Canadian children using "zed" instead of "zee"), but do they flexibly…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Group Membership, Vocabulary Skills, Children
Benny A. Benjamin – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Shared language comprises a precondition to authentic relationships, including career counselling. Drawing on constructivist theory, this article highlights career counsellors' charge to be sensitive to the unique meanings that clients ascribe to common career-oriented terminology, such as "working with people," "success," or…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Language Usage, Vocabulary, Counselor Client Relationship
Daphna Harel; Dorothy Seaman; Jennifer Hill; Elisabeth King; Dana Burde – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
Indirect questioning attempts to overcome social desirability bias in survey research. However, to properly analyze the resulting data, it is crucial to understand how it impacts responses. This study analyzes results from a randomized experiment that tests whether direct versus indirect questioning methods lead to different results in a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Questioning Techniques, Language Usage
Diana Forker; Natia Botkoveli – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The concept of resilience has been employed as an analytical tool in a wide range of scientific disciplines and fields from the natural sciences to social sciences and humanities, but within linguistics it is a relatively new and so far, rarely applied concept. This paper is intended as a contribution to fill this gap through a sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Language Minorities, Minority Groups
Ikuya Aizawa – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
This study investigates the impact of the language of instruction on assessment outcomes by comparing students' test performance in English (EMI) and Japanese Medium Instruction (JMI) courses. Data were collected from a university in Japan offering parallel Chemistry courses in Japanese and English as part of the same undergraduate curriculum. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Usage, Academic Language
Dang Thi Minh Tam; Tong Thi Mai Huong – Online Submission, 2024
Organizing effective instruction is a characteristic of classroom management, which minimizes time wasting and keeps students moving at a good pace. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the current practice of instruction-giving strategies being utilized in EFL classrooms in a Vietnamese public university. To achieve this goal, both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Abdulrahman Almalki; Mohammed Alzahrani – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
The current study was set to explore the influence of the first (L1) and second (L2) language group discussions on L2 reading comprehension. It also explored two sub-elements that were considered vital to L2 reading comprehension: (a) text genre recognition and (b) character and author's intention and perspective. Participants were 21 college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Males, Reading Comprehension
Aleksandra Wach; Robertus de Louw; Mikolaj Buczak; Gert Loosen – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Taking the interactionist perspective, this study investigates the use of communication strategies in Dutch as a lingua franca videoconferencing discussions within a telecollaboration project between Polish and Hungarian learners (N = 21). Specifically, the study explores the types and frequencies of the strategies used, the influence of the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Usage, Videoconferencing, Foreign Countries
Ronald Shabtaev; Joel Walters; Sharon Armon-Lotem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mountain Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Eastern Caucasus used two heritage languages, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) and Russian. Juhuri was their home and Russian the societal languages prior to migration. In Israel, Juhuri and Russian are Heritage Languages and Hebrew is the societal language. The present study reports on frequency of use and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Generational Differences, Native Language
Lex Konnelly; Nathan Sanders; Jason Siefken; Pocholo Umbal – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
In this paper, we examine whether a student's language background and other demographic factors have any relationship to their performance on prose questions in math, which we define as questions with open-ended answers containing one or more complete sentences of English. Prose questions stand in contrast to non-prose questions, which are more…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Algebra
Qun Zheng; Tae-Hee Choi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Joining the tide of global internationalisation of higher education, Chinese universities have embraced English-medium instruction (EMI) as a strategic response. The adoption of EMI is to comply with government mandates and for institutional survival, as it will increase the international ranking and bring in more income from international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, English, Educational Policy
Xiao Zhang; Christiane Lütge – Language and Education, 2024
Analysed through the lens of language ideology, this qualitative study delved into the multilingual experiences of Chinese international students in English-medium instruction (EMI) studies in Germany. Drawing on semi-structured interview data from 16 Chinese postgraduate students in an international university, this study probed into these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Ikuya Aizawa; Heath Rose; Jim McKinley; Gene Thompson – Language and Education, 2024
In the growing body of English medium instruction (EMI) research, few studies have directly compared the effects of medium of instruction on subject learning. This study compares direct measures of content knowledge and perceptions of knowledge acquisition for students studying Chemistry via English (n = 27) and Japanese Medium Instruction (JMI)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction
Meifang Zhuo – TESOL Journal, 2024
Feedback within the context of post-observation conferences (POCs) is critical for English language teachers' professional development. To date, however, surprisingly there has not yet been any study on language choices for feedback communication in POCs, considering around 80% of English language teachers worldwide are nonnative-English speakers…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Chinese, Mentors