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Pirhonen, Hillamaria – Language Learning Journal, 2022
As working life across the world is increasingly multilingual, multicultural and multidisciplinary, higher education language teaching is faced with a challenge of how to prepare students for it. Many universities have recently developed multilingual pedagogies but central to their success is learners' perceptions of these practices. To fill this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Caprario, Marcella; Taguchi, Naoko; Reppen, Randi – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Pragmatic markers perform important communicative functions, but they can be difficult to learn in a second language because of their multifunctionality and lack of salience during communicative events. This study has two goals: (1) to describe the communicative functions of the pragmatic marker "I mean" in academic discourse; and (2) to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ye, Xuejun – Language Learning Journal, 2023
In China, code-switching (CS) is frequently used in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. However, the functions of CS in Chinese secondary schools remain unclear. Moreover, student perceptions have rarely been considered in previous studies. This paper therefore sets out to examine why English teachers code-switch in EFL classrooms. In…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Student Attitudes, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Anna – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Dynamic shifts of language learners' willingness to communicate (WtC) have been investigated in a number of studies with a view to establishing the impact of various cognitive, affective, social and contextual factors. Looking into such influences in the context of a language classroom gives an opportunity to identify variables that might remain…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Cutrim Schmid, Euline; Cvetkovic Kienle, Anita; Sahin, Hilal – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The article presents research findings on the professional growth of three in-service EFL teachers from Germany who took part in a teacher education programme centred on technology-mediated plurilingual education. The study investigated how the programme influenced the development of the teachers' pedagogical and digital skills in creating and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Fielding, Ruth – Language Learning Journal, 2016
This paper discusses how teachers in a bilingual education programme see their pedagogies and interactions influencing student connection to the languages of the bilingual programme. The teacher perception of the classroom is explored because the classroom is one of the principal settings in which the students negotiate their bilingual identities.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education Programs
Kontio, Janne; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin – Language Learning Journal, 2015
The present article deals with language choice as communicative strategies in the language learning environment of an English-medium content and language integrated learning (CLIL) workshop at an auto mechanics class in a Swedish upper secondary school. The article presents the organisation and functions of language alternations (LAs) which are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
Crichton, Hazel – Language Learning Journal, 2009
This paper presents some of the preliminary findings of a study into modern languages (ML) learning in five Scottish secondary schools. Five ML teachers were observed and audio-recorded over a period of several weeks while teaching their third-year classes (pupils aged 14-15 years). All the teachers used the target language extensively in their…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Teacher Attitudes, Communication Skills, Second Language Instruction