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Andrew Jarvis – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study used the concept of desire in language learning to explore the first-year English journeys of undergraduates at an English-medium instruction (EMI) university in Hong Kong. Desire in language learning is an underexplored area in EMI research but a relevant concept for gaining a multilayered picture of the incentives and pressures of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Rui Yuan; Xuyan Qiu; Chuang Wang; Tiefu Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Informed by a mixed methods research design, the study investigates the interrelations between students' attitudes toward English learning, English-medium instruction (EMI), and the use of their first language (i.e. code-switching) in relation to a range of biographic and contextual factors in their situated EMI programmes. The quantitative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yvonne Pedria Velasco – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Drawing on Sutton and Levinson's Socio-cultural Approach to policy, this study explores the experiences and collective language beliefs of 25 teachers implementing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) policy in two urban Philippine school districts. Mixed methods were used to understand policy enactment and teacher perspectives.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
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David Lasagabaster – Language Policy, 2025
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Student Attitudes
Fransheska Arias Reyes; Ivanna Tavarez Vasquez; Pedro Tavárez DaCosta – Online Submission, 2025
Our country, which is today the Dominican Republic, is a Spanish speaking country due to the historical and well known fact that the then Hispaniola Island or Santo Domingo was split into two different colonies by effect of the Aranjuez Treaty (1777), held between the two Colonial Metropolis of Spain and France thus establishing the French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dery Tria Agustin; Thi Kim Anh Dang; Janet Scull – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Teachers' English language ideologies play a crucial role in English language education reforms. It is important to understand how their ideologies evolve outside and inside the classroom. This paper explores how micro-level factors shape teachers' English-only ideology, encompassing both their beliefs and their associated pedagogical practices.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Change
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Akif Çal; Tessa Mearns; Wilfried Admiraal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2025
This study aims to explore to what extent engineering students' perceptions of the role of English in the workplace are affected by their internship and field of study. Previous research revealed that employers value engineers' English communication skills highly. However, mismatches between workplace expectations and engineers' competencies…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Language Role
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Chris K. Chang-Bacon; Christopher Hu; Isabel Vargas; Lucy A. Montalvo – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2025
This study explores language ideologies within a multilingual tutoring program. We analyze the perspectives of multilingual university-students (n = 49) who were trained as tutors and paired with high school-aged multilingual learners. The program was designed to reduce educational inequalities by providing students with what we describe as…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Student Attitudes, Tutoring
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Sakina M. Alaoui – Discover Education, 2025
This paper examines the linguistic situation in Morocco, with a particular focus on Arabic. The Ministry of Education's approval of a grade two Arabic textbook that employs dialectal Arabic (Darija) words instead of Standard Arabic, which is the usual writing mode, created fierce controversy in the social and political scene between the defenders…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Cultural Influences, Dialects, Textbooks
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Mikel Gartziarena; Jon Altuna – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This quantitative research focuses on exploring and describing the beliefs of 418 in-service teachers on language teaching approaches and multilingualism in the South of the Basque Country. The findings report key factors and features of multilingual education in the region where Basque (minority language), Spanish (majority language), English…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Katie A. Bernstein; Lindsey Brown; Yalda M. Kaveh; Brandon Yuhas; Sepide Pazhouhi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language education policy in Arizona has been on a rollercoaster over the last five years. Between 2019 and 2024, the state shifted from strict English-only enforcement to loosening restrictions and encouraging dual language approaches, then back to strict English-only enforcement. In this forum piece, we use approaches from critical discourse…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Superintendents, English Only Movement
Othman Z. Barnawi; Ayman Alzahrani – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Deploying what we term 'Englishization policy distraction' in the internationalization of higher education as both a theoretical and analytical concept, this paper frames and examines how the epistemic violence of internationalization of the HE is bypassed and invisibilized through Englishization policy and English medium education in Saudi…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Planning
Sarah Hopkyns; Sender Dovchin; Shaila Sultana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is on the rise around the world due to globalization, internationalization and neoliberal ideologies which equate English with social capital, prestige, and success in the labour market. While many EMI policies aim to equip students with English as a 'lingua academia', produce 'neoliberal subjects' and compete in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kamonchanok Muengnakin; Arthitaya Narathakoon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study explored speaking anxiety and attitudes towards speaking English in the classroom setting. The data collected from 91 Thai EFL grade 11 students, using questionnaires, classroom observations, and semi-structured interviews. The findings showed moderate levels of speaking anxiety and attitudes among grade 11 students. The Pearson…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), High School Students, Correlation
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