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Jack Pun – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
One of the driving forces for a wider adoption of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education is that students may demonstrate improvements in English language proficiency through an increased English exposure from content learning. However, to what extent previous English exposure has an impact on students' learning experiences…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Science Education, Language Proficiency, Undergraduate Students
Werang, Elisabet Andriyanti; Harrington, Michael – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This study compares the attitudes of Indonesian student teachers to the use of Bahasa Indonesia (BI) in primary and secondary school English classrooms to that of the instructors in their teacher training programmes. It also examines the metacognitive orientations the student teachers have towards its use in their future teaching. Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Rifat Kamasak; Kari Sahan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The growth of English medium instruction (EMI) programs at universities worldwide has raised questions about the implications of teaching through L2 English on students' content learning outcomes. This study examined the impact of four factors on students' academic success (e.g. content learning) in the Turkish EMI context: (1) students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Ben Hammou, Salah; Kesbi, Abdelaziz – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The present study explores Moroccan science teachers' perceptions of teaching science subjects through foreign languages, mainly French, in Moroccan secondary schools. Seventeen science and technology teachers have been interviewed and data were analysed following the grounded theory methodology. The researcher constructs hypotheses based on data…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, French, Language of Instruction
Yusop Boonsuk – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The rapid transformation of English linguistic landscapes has introduced the world to newly emerging English varieties or World Englishes, which are not typically employed in the Inner Circle. To address the defying phenomenon, this qualitative study explored the perceptions of Thai university lecturers on World Englishes, Thai English and the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cheung, Yin Ling; Low, Tze Hui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
This article examines how writer's voice is constructed in argumentative essays written at the pre-university level. The study focusses on the student writers' control over evaluative resources that influence the realization of voice in the high-scoring and low-scoring scripts. Using the APPRAISAL system in Systemic Functional Linguistics, the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Jiang, Zhihui Will; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Mohamed, Naashia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Translanguaging as pedagogical practice and a theory of language has gained increasing importance in recent years. However, little research has reported Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language students' perceptions of translanguaging; neither has research examined the predictive effects of the factors contributing to the amount of student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
Ali Fuad Selvi; Elif Saracoglu; Eray Çaliskan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Over the years, we have been witnessing the burgeoning of interdisciplinary interest in the use of ideological discourses and enactment of representations through linguistic and semiotic choices in positioning, (re)constructing and expressing identities. In this picture, there is an evident paucity of research investigating the kinds of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
Nagasaki, Mutsuko; Armitage, Kristin; Orimoto, Sunao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
The present study examined whether oral interactive (pair) rehearsals and individual rehearsals promote second language (L2) learners' communication ability. The participants were 60 first-year students from two required English classes at a national university in Japan. One class was designated as 'the compulsory rehearsal' group (CR, n=28); the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
Qian, David D.; Pan, Mingwei – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Politeness has been a source of inspiration for research in pragmatics and inter- and intra-cultural communication. However, the existing literature focusses more on how politeness is realized in the context of first language use. Few studies have investigated the issue related to the use of English by second language learners from varying…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Business Communication, Letters (Correspondence)
Li, Huifang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Two types of corrective feedback, recasts and prompts, have sparked much research in second language (L2) learning and teaching. However, it is still unclear how these two types of feedback draw learners' attention to the erroneous forms in L2 classes. This study used an open questionnaire to investigate Chinese learners' perceptions of recasts…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Cognitive Processes
Lu, Yen-Hui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This study examines the impact of interdisciplinary teacher collaboration on English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers' professional development in higher education. Five content teachers from a variety of academic backgrounds jointly designed, developed and implemented an interdisciplinary EMI course at a private university in Taiwan. Based on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language of Instruction, Teacher Collaboration
He, Deyuan; Li, David C. S. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
With the largest number of English learners in the world, the influence of the English language teaching (ELT) reform in China cannot be underestimated. This article explores the implications of the actual use of English in China's workplace for ELT reform in the context of English as a lingua franca (ELF). On the basis of cross-validated data…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McKinley, Jim; Rose, Heath; Zhou, Sihan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article reports on a study of policymaking at transnational and local universities in China concerning English Medium Instruction (EMI) provision, and the impact this has on stakeholder experiences. It explores policymaking at two transnational universities, which are compared and contrasted with data collected at six other Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Universities, Language of Instruction
Wei, Li; García, Ofelia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Translanguaging has opened up spaces to recognize the dynamic multilingualism of students in classrooms taught in dominant languages, and problematized concepts such as 'additive bilingualism'. This article aims to further explore two issues that remain little understood. First, translanguaging is often seen as simply the acknowledgement or use of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism