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Kleopatra Mytara; Barbara Köpke – Language Learning Journal, 2024
In the vast literature on language attrition, studies on the role of extralinguistic factors in language retention, particularly concerning foreign language (FL) skills acquired in formal instructional contexts, are scarce. We address this issue by focusing on the impact of the frequency of FL use, both extramural and in the classroom, and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Greek, French
Gorter, Durk; Cenoz, Jasone – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Research Methodology
Anwar Ahmed – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Focusing on language education policies in Bangladesh, this article shows how the policies have distracted people's attention from the harms inflicted on the country's Indigenous communities and their languages. I discuss two factors that have contributed to policy distractions in this context: a strong form of Bangla linguistic nationalism and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Indo European Languages
Tannenbaum, Michal; Shohamy, Elana; Inbar-Lourie, Ofra – Language Policy, 2022
Advocacy strategies are characterized by collaborations amongst various stakeholders working together to create changes and reforms. In language education policy, this refers to various types of initiatives and activities intended to create language policy reforms on local and/or national levels. In this paper such activities are traced, analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Language Planning
Yaron Matras; Katie Harrison; Leonie Elisa Gaiser; Stephanie Connor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing on interviews with staff from Language Supplementary Schools (LSS) in Manchester (UK), we discuss the emergence of makeshift ideologies whereby actors seek to legitimise choices and policies of heritage language transmission in the diaspora setting. Actors discuss the use of regional and vernacular varieties, the consideration given to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
Raees Calafato – Language Awareness, 2025
Language teachers cannot help their students develop high levels of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude if they themselves are found lacking in these abilities. This article reports on a study that utilised a descriptive correlational mixed-methods research design to gather data from 89 multilingual teachers of English, Chinese, French,…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Alice Chik; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language Awareness, 2024
Many metropolitan cities have undergone rapid demographic changes in recent years, and such changes hasten and widen linguistic diversities. Similar changes are happening in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. These changes are most acutely felt and observed in the classrooms where multiple languages are spoken, despite a prevalent monolingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Education Programs
Chinh Duc Nguyen; Thanh Nguyen Thao Tran; Nhu To Thi Pham; Mai Kha Ngoc Huynh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
At a meso level, families have shown an imperative role in language policy in general and language education in particular. Predicated on the theories of family language policy and a transdisciplinary framework for L2 development, this study was undertaken to explore what three generations of a family did with the foreign languages they had…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Family Relationship
Alexa Ahooja; Melanie Brouillard; Erin Quirk; Susan Ballinger; Linda Polka; Krista Byers-Heinlein; Ruth Kircher – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This is the first large-scale study of resources as a form of "language management" -- that is, a way of influencing children's language practices. We introduce the distinction between child-directed resources (i.e. those providing parents with opportunities to engage with their children in the languages they are transmitting) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Toddlers
Oihana Leonet; María Orcasitas-Vicandi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In the present study, we have explored language learning motivation, attitudes and exposition strategies in participants' L2 and FL in an attempt to adopt a multilingual view that better suits the complex sociolinguistic context of the Basque Country. The study includes 200 young multilinguals from the Basque Country. Most of them have Basque as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Languages
Riah Werner – English Teaching Forum, 2025
Storytelling passes down traditions and values while preserving languages and serving as a natural site for linguistic innovation and creativity. This article describes an approach to creating multilingual, multimodal stories that were developed for an after-school club at a rural Tanzanian secondary school. Club members told stories, wrote…
Descriptors: Clubs, Self Concept, Student Characteristics, English (Second Language)
Rika Tsushima; Martin Guardado – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2024
Heritage languages are key to shaping the identity of many individuals who grow up in environments where the dominant societal language is different from their home languages. Yet heritage language learners can be incredibly diverse in terms of cultural and language backgrounds, language proficiency, literacy skills, language socialization…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Socialization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Amy Clark – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Emergent bi/multilingual children have historically been afforded few opportunities to engage dialogically with peers and teachers in posing authentic questions and co-constructing interpretations of texts as their reading instruction has traditionally been skills driven. Additionally, more recent scholarship has identified increased opportunities…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Spanish Literature, Spanish, Language Maintenance
Singleton, David; Flynn, Colin J. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
The term translanguaging goes back more than a quarter-century, originating in the domain of the teaching of Welsh, but it has over the years developed a wide variety of usages. While translanguaging is claimed to have advantages over other language education models, many of its new interpretations, which take it some distance from its original…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Abduh, Amirullah; Jayadi, Karta; Dunakhir, Samirah – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the portraits of graduates who have learned English as a foreign language on one hand, while maintaining Indonesian and local languages on the other. This study draws on poststructuralist notions of identity and language learning and uses a portraiture lens emphasising contexts and voice. This paper…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Self Concept