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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
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
Haerim Hwang – Written Communication, 2025
The use of subordination enables language users to achieve syntactic efficiency by allowing them to connect ideas in temporal/logical relation. Although the importance of subordination has been recognized in previous research on second language (L2) writing, it has been typically assessed with global indices that measure overall ratio of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
Bayu Andika Prasatyo; Roosita Suci Wiryani; Tri Ananti Listiana; Corry Ester Margaret Siagian; Yanuarius Yanu Dharmawan; Christine Manara – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2025
Indonesia's linguistic landscape is among the most diverse in the world, yet its many indigenous and minority languages face increasing marginalization amid the widespread use of Bahasa Indonesia and English. This study examined university students' perspectives on language diversity and the preservation of heritage languages within the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance
Ee-Ling Low – TESOL Journal, 2025
Singapore is an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse nation-state that has always practiced deliberate language policy and planning. The bilingual education policy, introduced shortly after the young nation's independence has led to the emergence of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
Mostafa Nazari; Sedigheh Karimpour – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Theory and research on translanguaging have increasingly grown in the past decades. However, the scope of research on how teachers make sense of translanguaging is limited, particularly how they emotionally respond to a translanguaging pedagogy. The present study addressed this gap by examining eight Iranian English-L2 teachers'…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Gui Wang; Hui Wang; Li Wang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study investigates the developmental trajectory of progressive construction among Chinese and Japanese EFL learners through a usage-based approach. A total of 600 written essays, produced by EFL learners from China and Japan with proficiency levels ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate, were analyzed. The findings reveal that advanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Ting Ma; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Judy M. Parr – Language Awareness, 2025
Studies have shown that raising L2 learners' metaphor awareness contributes to the acquisition of figurative language, which fosters students' development of language skills. However, the instruments measuring metaphor awareness, in the majority of relevant research, did not seem to have undergone proper methodological procedures for checking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
Apiwit Pawapootanon; Somkiet Poopatwiboon; Eric A. Ambele – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This qualitative study examines how Thai EFL teachers utilize pedagogical translanguaging in multilingual secondary school classrooms, employing both planned and unplanned strategies to support English language learning. Grounded in Cenoz and Gorter's (2021) multilingual pedagogical translanguaging model, the study investigates how teachers…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Code Switching (Language), Thai, English (Second Language)
Sugene Kim – Language Awareness, 2025
This study employed a mixed-methods approach to explore the attitudes of second language (L2) learners and L2 teachers toward the use of learners' first language (L1) in L2 classrooms. Interview data were collected from Japanese college students (n = 91) and their English teachers (n = 9) to identify salient themes related to the reasons for…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shin’ichiro Ishikawa – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
A writer's L1 is generally believed to influence their L2 English writing significantly. However, the extent to which L1 backgrounds influence Asian learners' L2 English writing has not been wholly elucidated due to the lack of data covering various learners in Asia. Therefore, this study analysed more than one-million-word essays written by 2,318…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yachao Sun; Huan Feng – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study explored the impacts of translingual practices on English as an additional language (EAL) writing education in a non-English as a medium of instruction (non-EMI) context at a Chinese university. The findings highlighted the benefits of translingual practices in enhancing students' comprehension, easing cognitive challenges, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Nick Ott – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2025
Second language acquisition (SLA) research emphasizes the role of imagination in language learning, with learners often envisioning themselves engaging with native speakers. However, learners' language preferences may differ from those of native-speaker communities. For example, while regional language is used in native-speaker communities to…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Native Speakers, German, Second Language Learning
Erin Quirk; Natasha Hadeed; Krista Byers-Heinlein – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Family language strategies are approaches that parents adopt for language use with their multilingual children. In bilingual contexts, these strategies influence children's language exposure and development (MacLeod et al., 2022). In the more complex context of trilingualism, how families settle on strategies and their relationship with exposure…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning