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Qihan Chen; C. Patrick Proctor; Rebecca D. Silverman – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Language is essential for making meaning in written communication, and argument writing is a key genre of schooling to which language contributes rich resources for constructing different types of arguments. Despite being a challenging language practice, argument writing research lacks investigation into the language demands of this writing genre.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Epistemology
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Julia Hagge; Aina Appova – Reading Teacher, 2025
Despite proficient math skills, students may struggle to make sense of and solve story problems. While educators are encouraged to promote the use of comprehension strategies, students must first understand vocabulary at all levels as they work to make sense of and solve math story problems. Language skills are a prerequisite for schema…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Language Skills, Schemata (Cognition), Language Role
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Mayu Aoki; Yukiko Asami-Johansson; Carl Winsløw – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
Natural language is known to play a crucial and specific role for children's learning in school mathematics. Not only does it carry special vocabulary, but subtle differences between natural languages may lead to surprising challenges, for instance, for learners who are not taught mathematics in their mother tongue. In this paper, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Mathematics Instruction, Language Role
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Satoshi Nambu; Mitsuko Ono – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the linguistic landscapes (LL) of two distinct ethnic areas in Shin-Okubo, Japan: Koreatown and Islamic Street. By paying particular attention to the difference in the formation of the two immigrant communities, this study aims to better understand various functions of language on signage and their…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Japanese, Tourism, Islam
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Jean W. LeLoup; Barbara C. Schmidt-Rinehart – NECTFL Review, 2025
This article reports the findings of a study undertaken to document and explain the use of English in signage in Costa Rica, a Spanish-speaking country. The linguistic landscape has emerged as an important, viable field of research. In order to investigate how, when, and why the use of English manifests itself, a corpus of 169 photographs of signs…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Language Role, English (Second Language)
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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
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Natalia V. Rakhlin; Nan Li; Abdullah Aljughaiman; Elena L. Grigorenko – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: We investigated the role of spoken language in the acquisition of literacy in the context of Arabic diglossia, where the written language, Standard Arabic, deviates substantially from the spoken language, Colloquial Arabic, children acquire naturally from birth. Method: The participants (N = 110; 40 girls) were Saudi Arabic--speaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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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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Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
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Ana María Rojo López; Katarzyna Anna Nowak – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
The use of English in advertising across non-English-speaking countries is pervasive, often seen as a strategy to evoke prestige, modernity, and global appeal. However, its effectiveness may depend on factors such as text length, linguistic complexity, and local language use, which remain underexplored. This study investigates how Spanish and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Role, English (Second Language), Second Languages
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Saranya Pathanasin – rEFLections, 2025
This study approaches multilingualism on Phuket Island by means of a linguistic landscape (LL) analysis. The data in this study consists of 185 photographs of shop signs taken from popular streets on the island. They were analyzed via a mixed-methods approach. It was found that different languages were purposely chosen to indicate or showcase the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Photography, Signs, Ethnic Groups
Yawen Han; Dan Li; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Informed by the theoretical concepts of 'practiced' language policy and space, the study investigates the language practices of English-medium Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programs for international students, focusing on the interactional norms of language choice in a Chinese hospital where international students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role, English (Second Language)
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Jiazhou Yao; Peng Nie; Liuyan Zhou – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study adopts an apparent-time diachronic linguistic landscape (LL) approach to investigate the vitality of an ethnic minority language in China, namely the Nuosu Yi ([foreign characters omitted]). Diachronic LL research is concerned with changes in language use on signage over time. It provides insights into phenomena such as language shift,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnic Groups, Language Minorities
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Tae-Sik Kim; Jong-Soo Ahn – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study analyses the multilingual linguistic landscapes made up of languages, visual materials, and built environments in Seongsu-dong, where old industrial sites and new commercial places are indiscriminately juxtaposed. This study focuses particularly on (1) how languages are associated with different built environments of new commercial…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Languages, Visual Aids, Language Role
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Malika Beisenova; Gulzira Kenzhetaeva; Gulshat Beysembaeva; Gulzhan Altynbekova; Fatima Yerekhanova; Assel Akhmetbekova; Aitmukhamet Trushev – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Anglicisms play a pivotal role in shaping media discourse in Kazakhstan, potentially influencing both the style and content of media texts. The communicative and pragmatic features of anglicisms in Kazakhstani news feeds, in addition, are deeply impacted by globalization. This research aims to analyze how anglicisms influence the perception and…
Descriptors: Turkic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Mass Media, Language Styles