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So Jung Kim; Soyeon Park; Alyse C. Hachey; Iva Li – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study examines how music videos can be implemented in the home context to enhance children's critical engagement with gender representations in children's media. Guided by the conceptual framework drawn from new literacies, critical media literacy, and sociocultural theory, this study employs a multiple case study approach focusing on three…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingualism, Gender Differences, Music
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In the current study, we examined the role of first-language (L1) influence on the additional-language development of grammatical gender marking in Spanish. The participants were L1 speakers of English or French (N = 215), who were learning Spanish and who were at three instructional levels. The data came from their use of gender marking in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, English, French
Mustafa Armut; Mehmet Kara – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aimed to determine the variables affecting the eye-movements of second-language (L2) learners of Turkish in Türkiye while solving a test consisting of questions that included graphics. A total of 115 L2 learners participated in the research (21 in the pilot study and 94 in the main study). We presented a test consisting of five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Turkish, Eye Movements
Juyoung Song; Amber E. Wu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This collaborative autoethnography explores the intersection of heritage language (HL) maintenance, emotion, and identity from the perspectives of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter learning and maintaining Korean in the United States. The analysis of their narratives concerning critical emotional experiences relevant to HL maintenance reveals…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Korean, Parent Child Relationship
Muhammad Alrayes – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Teaching English in second language contexts seems to have succeeded in implementing only target-language policy allowed during class time. However, the problem persists in teaching English in foreign language contexts where English is not the official and/or first language in those countries. Such situations kept the question unanswered; whether…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Skar, Gustaf B.; Lei, Pui-Wa; Graham, Steve; Aasen, Arne Johannes; Johansen, Marita Byberg; Kvistad, Anne Holten – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Until children can produce letters quickly and accurately, it is assumed that handwriting disrupts and limits the quality of their text. This investigation is the largest study to date (2596 girls, 2354 boys) assessing the association between handwriting fluency and writing quality. We tested whether handwriting fluency made a statistically unique…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Elementary School Students
Mills, Shantel; Nicoladis, Elena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Previous research has shown that bilinguals respond differently to moral dilemmas posed in each of their languages, tending to make deontologically-based decisions (based on right or wrong) in their first language and utilitarian decisions (bringing about the most good) in their second language. In the present study, we tested several predictors…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Native Language
Lago, Sol; Stone, Kate; Oltrogge, Elise; Veríssimo, João – Language Learning, 2023
Second language (L2) learners make gender errors with possessive pronouns. In production, these errors are modulated by the gender match between the possessor and possessee noun. We examined whether this so-called match effect extends to L2 comprehension by attempting to replicate a recent study on gender predictions in first language (L1) German…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Native Language, German, Second Language Learning
Harara, Nour Mohammad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The present study endeavors to investigate the learning of the comprehension of semantic interpretation of metaphor in the expository writing by EFL learners at Albalqa Applied University, Jordan. Moreover, the study attempts to see the role of mother tongue influences in the learning and comprehension of semantic interpretation of metaphor in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semantics
Xiaoping Gao; Stuart Woodcock; Jinjin Lu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated English first language (L1) speakers' motivation for learning Chinese as a second language (L2) in Australia and the links of underlying motivational components to learner sociobiographical (e.g. gender and reasons for learning) and language learning variables (i.e. experience abroad, hours of self-study, and speaking with…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, College Students, Chinese, English
Arshad Ali Khan; Amina Khalid; Tahir Saleem – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study investigates the function and morphosyntax of English Embedded Language (EL) islands in Pashto-English bilingual data, using the Matrix Language Frame model to explore the role of the two languages in codeswitching and the pragmatic force behind the selection of EL islands. A dataset of 14 hours was collected from AVT Khyber, a YouTube…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Hwang, Jihye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The number of multilingual international students in post-secondary mathematics classrooms in the United States is increasing. As language is related to students' access to mathematics learning and their (mathematics) identities, it shapes their experiences as a doer of mathematics. However, as multilingual international students move to the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Göçen, Gökçen – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Learning a foreign language includes learning vocabulary together with grammar rules and using language skills by means of them. Words are presented to learners through teachers and coursebooks in educational processes. Yet, it is not possible to teach all the words through lessons, so learners are expected to become independent vocabulary…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development
Hari Windu Asrini; Arti Prihatini; Ajang Budiman; Anisa Ulfah – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Students are required to master effective sentences to support their writing skills. However, students often struggle with comprehending and constructing effective sentences due to their limited proficiency and competence. This research examines the comprehension of effective sentences through grammaticality judgment tests and its implications for…
Descriptors: Grammar, Decision Making, Language Tests, Writing Instruction
Agnieszka Ewa Krautz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Feeling like a different person when speaking different languages has been investigated before and attributed to several linguistic as well as psychological factors. Language proficiency, the context of language acquisition, personality traits, emotional intelligence, and the topic of conversation as well as the interlocutor have been found to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Personality Traits, Language Proficiency