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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
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Csanád Bodó; Blanka Barabás; Isabela Botezatu; Noémi Fazakas; Judit Gáspár; János Imre Heltai; Petteri Laihonen; Veronika Lajos; Gergely Szabó; Csercsetáre-Invitees – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Attitudes
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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
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Sam Goodchild; Miriam Weidl – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In our article, we investigate the complex dynamics of linguistic understandings and mis- or non-understanding within multilingual contexts. Through the lens of sociolinguistic exploration, we navigate the multifaceted landscapes of language use, applying a multi-perspective approach and the triangulation method to explore the depths of linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Researchers
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Daniel J. Olson; Lori Czerwionka – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
While language dominance has been crucial in the study of bilingualism, recent research has called for more detailed measures to systematically account for the observation that bilinguals use different languages in different domains, a phenomenon formalized in the Complementary Principle. Few studies have systematically measured these…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Avinash Pandey; Renuka Ozarkar – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article focuses on the ever-increasing stress on multilingual education (MLE) in policy documents, especially its pairing with mother tongues in education (MTE). This focus brings into relief the relationship between MTE, the preservation of linguistic diversity and social democracy. We argue that the outcome of this relationship crucially…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Usage, Native Language, Multilingualism
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Yuichi Suzuki; Dustin Crowther – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
One key tenet of Global Englishes for Language Teaching (GELT) is that the native English speaker should no longer serve as the role model for second language (L2) English users. Such a view does not discount that some degree of linguistic knowledge is necessary for successful global communication. However, GELT scholarship has remained relatively…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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)
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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
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Ishaan Ambrish; Shreya Sodhi; Zoe Liberman – Social Development, 2025
People use different communication patterns based on the context and who they are addressing. These differences, known as linguistic register, are common across human speech and recognized early in development. Here, we examine 4-11-year-old American children's (N = 227) ability to use linguistic registers to determine a speaker's addressee as…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Language Usage, Preschool Children, Children
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Alba Arias Álvarez – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Migrant communities settle and appropriate spaces in their new home through deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation processes, which involve the reconceptualisation of the language and symbols of the homeland and those spoken and used in the diaspora. The public sphere is one of the most distinguishable places where this contextual relation…
Descriptors: Signs, Language Planning, Spanish, Semiotics
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Ozlem Ozan; Yasin Ozarslan; Sevgi Calisir Zenci – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
This study analyzed linguistic errors as part of the Differentiated Distance Education of Turkish as a Foreign Language Project, which pursues the development of an adaptive MOOC for Turkish as a second language. Therefore, the Turkish CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) A1-level writing exam papers of 177 learners were…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Error Patterns
Fan Fang; Xinxin Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Shehr Bano Zaidi – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
This research project is set in a Pakistani undergraduate translation studies class. Pakistan is an ex-British colony where English is taught in a linguistic neo-imperial context. Teachers often endeavor to lessen the palpable struggle of students by introducing activities that put less emphasis on grammatical correctness and more on fostering…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Eun Young Yeom – English Teaching, 2025
This case study with 12 Korean high school emergent bilinguals (K-emergent bilinguals) illustrates how the pedagogical concept of translingual dialogic webbing can be conceptualized based on theories of dialogism and translanguaging. Through a concrete case of classroom activities using a picturebook, "the Rough Patch," this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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