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Habib Abdesslem; Abhinan Wongkittiporn – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study examined givenness in discourse via passive constructions in research articles. While it is commonly held in grammar books and grammar classes that the passive voice is the counterpart of the active voice, the present study argues that Argument movement in passive constructions can act as a syntactic device contributing to sound…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Research, Morphemes, Grammar
Zachary W. Taylor; Brett McCartt; Tahagod Babekir – Texas Education Review, 2024
Across many language backgrounds, a consistent hurdle to accessing United States higher education is understanding the basic information necessary to apply for admission and financial aid and complete the many enrollment management processes necessary to begin one's college career (apply for housing, receive and submit vaccinations, register for…
Descriptors: Arabic, Native Speakers, Access to Education, Higher Education
Nina Woll; Pierre-Luc Paquet; Isabelle Wouters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While studies have shown that additional language (Lx) learners build on knowledge of previously acquired languages (Ringbom 2007), the natural interaction between languages is rarely exploited in Lx classrooms. This study explores the nature of metalinguistic reflections and crosslinguistic connections during plurilingual consciousness-raising…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Learning
Dumanig, Francisco P.; Symaco, Lorraine Pe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper examines how internationalisation of higher education institutions is reflected through their mission and vision statements by comparatively analysing the mission and vision statements of selected universities in Malaysia and the Philippines. To carry out the study, twenty (20) mission and vision statements of public and private…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Private Colleges
Fatimah Jeharsae; Theerat Chaweewan; Yusop Boonsuk – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The global prevalence of English as a lingua franca (ELF) across diverse linguacultural communities within the three circles invites an in-depth analysis of its phonological and lexicogrammatical features, especially among non-native English speakers. This qualitative study investigated these features among 30 Thai students from English and…
Descriptors: Nonstandard Dialects, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peters, Hugues – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This is a secondary research discussion paper on the issue of non-conforming gender-inclusivity or neutrality in foreign language teaching of gender-based languages. Australian universities welcome increasingly diverse populations of students. One source of diversity among the student population is characterised by the notion of gendered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, LGBTQ People, Gender Issues
Sockett, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2023
As research into online informal language learning (OILL) develops as a field, the impact on such practices for a wide variety of contexts can be considered. In the case of this publication, the study abroad (SA) context is of particular interest. Indeed the study abroad student may interact with a range of online learning resources in formal,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Informal Education, Learning Activities, Second Language Learning
Bueno, David Cababaro – Online Submission, 2020
Recently, the impact of smart technologies and artificial intelligence as mechanisms for blended instruction in higher education institutions around the world has been of great interest. A cross-sectional design was used for this study. At a defined time, assumptions concerning the efficiency of a localized application of integrated smart…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Blended Learning, Higher Education
Marcos Miguel, Nausica – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Content-based instruction is a favoured methodology for approaching L2 language instruction. Although vocabulary development is one language area where advanced learners could grow, there is little research focusing on vocabulary instruction in content-based Spanish L2 courses at US universities. This study analyses a corpus of 25 hours of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff – Language Testing, 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Inferences
Champlin, Matthew C. – Online Submission, 2019
This IPP combines a literature review and a materials development project. The literature review outlines and supports the approach taken throughout the curriculum and the materials that were developed. First, it lays out the nature of Turkish universities' ELPPs [English Language Preparatory Programs]; then, it deals with the basic philosophy of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum
Nguyen, Thi Chau Ngan; Kettle, Margaret; Doherty, Catherine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This paper investigated the language resources needed for communication in Vietnam's import/export services and the level of alignment with the associated English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course. To examine the communicative practices used in this workplace, the study employed methods of semi-structured interviews and a collection of 48 emails…
Descriptors: Higher Education, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kahlaoui, Mohamed-Habib – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This paper aims to explore the reasons behind the limited dissemination of Adamczewski's Metaoperational approach to language beyond the French academic sphere. The theory, which developed in and by contrastivity between 1976 and 2005, is built on the basic assumption that utterances exhibit on their surface observable traces of the utterer's…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Contrastive Linguistics, Translation, English
Berger, Armin, Ed.; Heaney, Helen, Ed.; Resnik, Pia, Ed.; Rieder-Bünemann, Angelika, Ed.; Savukova, Galina, Ed. – English Language Education, 2021
This volume presents a systematic approach to developing advanced English language competence at tertiary level. It includes the reflections of experienced language teachers and teacher-researchers in the English Language Competence programme at the University of Vienna and provides examples of good practice, amalgamating teaching expertise and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Valeeva, Roza A.; Martynova, Irina N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The importance of the problem under discussion is preconditioned by the scientific inquiry of the best variants of foreign language inclusions translation which would suite original narration in the source text stylistically, emotionally and conceptually and also fully projects the author's communicative intention in every particular case. The…
Descriptors: Russian, Translation, English, Novels