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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
Avnit Dhanoa; Elena Nicoladis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study tested whether Punjabi-English bilinguals feel a stronger rapport with another bilingual stranger when communicating in L1 Punjabi or their dominant L2 English. Some previous studies have shown greater emotional reactions to a dominant language. We predicted that participants would feel more comfortable speaking their dominant language.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Indo European Languages, Interpersonal Relationship
Mengying Liu; Elaine Tarone – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Chinese immersion programs have been increasingly popular in US schools. However, we have insufficient data on young English-speaking children's acquisition of Chinese as a second language in these programs, and specifically on social contextual variables systematically promoting or hindering Chinese language use. Taking a variationist…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Languages, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Lei Wang; Shu-Yi Wang; Daniel K. McKelvey; Eleanor Y. Kim – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
As student bodies on college campuses in the United States (U.S.) continue to diversify, university counseling centers have begun to recognize the importance of hiring multilingual therapists and trainees to meet the needs of 66 million U.S. residents who speak languages other than English. The study used a qualitative approach to better…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Counselor Attitudes, Counseling Services, Counselor Training
Erin Mauffray – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the acquisition and maintenance of periphrastic and se-passives in second language (L2), heritage (HS), and (Spanish-dominant) native Spanish speakers (NS) by addressing: (i) How accessible are Spanish periphrastic passives (which also exist in English) and se-passives (unique to Spanish) for L2ers and HSs in production?…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Native Language, Native Speakers
Grover, Virginia L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Scholars have long critiqued points of view in which monolingual perspectives are seen as normative in research on multilingualism. In relation to this "monolingual orientation," however, in which monolingualism is perceived to be the implicit norm, less work has been dedicated to methodological challenges. As disciplinary perspectives…
Descriptors: Criticism, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Language Variation
Osei Yaw Akoto – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study proposes "grounding" as a theoretical approach to studying linguistic landscape (LL). Grounding is the positioning or sequencing of languages in a multilingual 'text' to reveal the languages' relevance or a community's association with the languages. The study explores language grounding in church names which constitute part…
Descriptors: Churches, Naming, Multilingualism, Second Languages
Souto-Manning, Mariana; Martell, Jessica; Pérez, Aura Y.; Pión, Patricia – Reading Teacher, 2021
In this article, we bring different fields into conversation as a way of expanding understandings about the teaching of reading, centering the communicative practices of multilingual children. Instead of seeking to remedy children whose communicative practices and norms do not align with "academic language," we traverse fields to show…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Reading Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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
Chimbutane, Feliciano – Language Policy, 2021
The aim of this Afterword is to foreground and discuss some of the key themes emerging from the four studies in this special issue. I first consider the critical ethnographic approach to language policy and planning adopted in the studies, and the attention to language policy processes unfolding on different scales of social and institutional…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Policy Formation
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
Hanna Kosonen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Linguistic diversity is growing in Higher Education, driven by factors like internationalization and digitalization. This trend necessitates a reevaluation of language practices within academic communities. Language Centres play a crucial role in modelling effective practices and reshaping these practices to address the multilingual needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Begum, Nusrat; Sinha, Sweta – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
Linguistic landscaping (LL) is an emerging field of Sociolinguistics exploring the language in its textual form in public sphere. This paper investigates the visibility and prominence of languages in the public space of Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India. A total of 10 city neighborhoods are chosen for the study. The corpus of the study is…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Neighborhoods, Signs, Language Planning
Liddicoat, Anthony J.; Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The role of agency in language planning and policy (LPP) is a recent focus of scholarship. Interest in agency has seen new issues and contexts being given prominence in LPP research. In this introduction, we present an overview of theoretical definitions of agency and the ways it has emerged as a concept in LPP scholarship. We consider how…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Decision Making, Scholarship, Personal Autonomy
Thomas Quehl – Multilingual Matters, 2025
Through an ethnographic study that took place in highly diverse primary school classrooms in London and the East of England, UK, this book engages with teachers' perspectives and children's descriptions of their plurilingual experiences, as it explores what constitutes, hinders and potentially facilitates teachers' agency in multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Elementary School Students, Professional Autonomy, Teaching Methods