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Ramos Asafo-Adjei; Frances Betty Fraikue; Elvis ResCue – Discover Education, 2025
The role of the English language in the Ghanaian hospitality industry was explored in this study. Specifically, the research question addressed is: what is the role of the English language in the Ghanaian hospitality industry? Using the quantitative descriptive survey research design, a questionnaire survey was carried out among all first year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Role, Hospitality Occupations
Majid Elahi Shirvan; Esmaeel Saeedy Robat; Abdullah Alamer; Nigel Mantou Lou; Elyas Barabadi – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Second language (L2) learners' beliefs about the nature of language learning, specifically language mindsets, is a recent productive line of L2 research. Researchers argue that language mindsets are key factors for language learning success. However, the association between language mindsets and different language learning outcomes is inconsistent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Outcomes of Education, Language Attitudes
Heiko F. Marten – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This paper discusses contemporary societal roles of German in the Baltic states (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania). Speaker and learner statistics and a summary of sociolinguistic research (Linguistic Landscapes, language learning motivation, language policies, international roles of languages) suggest that German has by far fewer speakers and functions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Official Languages, Sociolinguistics
Hamza R'boul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In an era of internationalisation and globalisation, many institutional and national governments' higher education policies have embraced neoliberal agendas that encourage the use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Due to the postcolonial struggles of the Global South, it is important to critically examine the entanglement of EMI with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Role
Ashley R. Moore – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Linguistic distancing behaviours indicative of linguistic dissociation (Moore, 2023) have been documented in social scientific and literary accounts focusing on the lives of Japanese-English late plurilinguals (LPs; e.g. Harrison, 2011; Kelsky, 2001; McMahill, 2001; Mori, 1997; Takahashi, 2013). Across these cases, diverse Japanese-English LPs…
Descriptors: Language Role, Japanese, Language Research, Bilingualism
Chang Liu; Meihua Chen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study employs a mixed-methods design to explore the attitudes and expressed beliefs of Chinese postgraduate students regarding the strategic use of their entire range of languages in English academic writing (EAW). The survey findings suggest that while students generally accept the idea of mixing languages during the writing process, they…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Ariane Macalinga Borlongan; Ron Bridget Vilog – AILA Review, 2024
While language is clearly an important aspect of (labor) migration, there have not been many contemplations and interrogations, although truly compelling and necessary, on language varieties and their place and position in labor migration and transnational work in the contemporary world, and hence why we intend to do so in this article. In our…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Work Environment, Migrants
Fred Dervin; Kaisa Hahl – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper addresses 'distractions' in the way English language education is discussed and practiced in one of the most debated systems of education in the world today: Finnish primary education. Distractions are considered as 'makers of disturbance' in educational ideologies by the authors. Examining the 2014 National Core Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), National Curriculum
Reasons to Learn a Minoritised Language: The Case of Migrant New Speakers of Welsh in Cardiff, Wales
Ka Long Tung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
This paper explores the reasons for migrant new speakers of Welsh in Cardiff to learn the language given that English is the main communication medium in everyday life. From interviews with 10 migrant new speakers of Welsh and their language diaries, this paper shows that migrant new speakers were interested in accessing the Welsh culture and…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Minorities, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
Qilin Mo; Hongmei Yang; Shupei Huang – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This study investigates the role of speaking the Jing language in the contemporary context of China's active engagement with Vietnam. Based on the fieldwork conducted in Dongxing Guangxi in January 2024, the study shows that the Jing language plays an important role in both maintaining the cultural heritage as pride and empowering the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vietnamese, Vietnamese People, Native Language
Elise Alberts; Gijsbert Rutten – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Netherlands is home to an increasing number of English-language churches. These churches are often established with an international audience in mind: however, interestingly, they also attract a large number of Dutch as a first-language (L1) speakers. This article investigates the language attitudes and language choices of Dutch L1 speakers…
Descriptors: Native Language, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sugene Kim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines L2 speakers' accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Role
Pilar Ordóñez--López – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
The impact of attitudes on the learning process and on the academic results achieved by students has been the object of numerous studies, which have shown a connection between attitudes and learning. Similarly, the impact of students' attitudes towards learning a foreign language (mainly English) has been explored from a wide range of…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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
Jenni Alisaari; Leena Maria Heikkola; Raisa Harju-Autti – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
We examined Finnish pre-service primary school teachers' understandings of the role of language(s) in learning mathematics and how these understandings developed during a period of teaching practice. We also examined how the participants experienced the usefulness of the ready-made multilingual digital material "Binogi" and how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Language Role