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Matt Lucas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Previous research has indicated that explicit information (EI) about either the first language (L1) or second language (L2) along with task-essential practice can facilitate L2 learning (e.g., Fernández, 2008; McManus, 2022). However, little research has examined L1--L2 contrastive EI with L1/L2 practice. Targeting plural-marking accuracy, the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Japanese
August, Diane; Barr, Christopher; Carlson, Coleen; Johnston, Will Tad; Marken, Alexandra – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
This study investigated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to support sixth-grade Spanish-speaking English as Additional Language (EAL) learners and their English proficient classmates in acquiring pre-algebra knowledge and skills and associated academic vocabulary. The sample consisted of 88 EAL learners and their 139 English…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Mathematics Skills
Chen Ding; Barry Lee Reynolds; Xuan Van Ha – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of EFL students at a Chinese university regarding collocation learning. The participating students were provided with a collocation instruction and practice component over ten weeks within a regular one-semester EFL course. The participants were 15 Chinese first-year non-English major students. The…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Angxuan Chen; Yuyue Zhang; Jiyou Jia; Min Liang; Yingying Cha; Cher Ping Lim – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Language assessment plays a pivotal role in language education, serving as a bridge between students' understanding and educators' instructional approaches. Recently, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have introduced transformative possibilities for automating and personalising language assessments. Objectives:…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests
Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study tested the effects of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words on the pronunciation of these words by 7- to 8-year-old Catalan children. In a short training experiment with a pre- and posttest design, 28 children either repeated cognate words in French (e.g. French "aspirateur," Catalan "aspirador"…
Descriptors: French, Language Rhythm, Motor Reactions, Pronunciation
Lindsey Moses; Carolina Torrejon Capurro – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This article explores the findings from a formative study focused on language and literacy development in an international school's K5 classroom in South America. The teacher's pedagogical goal was to increase the amount of English used by students related to the social context of a restaurant. The intervention involved an integrated literacy and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Code Switching (Language), Self Concept, Kindergarten
Nakamura, Pooja; Leyew, Zelealem; Molotsky, Adria; Ranjit, Varsha; Kamto, Kevin – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2023
To address the evidence gap in making effective language of instruction (LOI) decisions, we propose a systematic review of the role of LOI choices in education programs and policies on literacy outcomes in multilingual educational contexts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Grounded in a multidisciplinary theory of change (ToC)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, Decision Making
Hassane Razkane; Samir Diouny – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study explored the effect of metacognitive reading strategy intervention in English on helping Moroccan learners reversely transfer metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2). In particular, it investigated whether an improvement in metacognitive reading strategy in English (L3) would lead to an improvement in reading…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Multilingualism, Native Language
Murphy Odo, Dennis – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Ongoing debate exists concerning pedagogical strategies including song to improve vocabulary learning in second or foreign language learners. A search of primary empirical studies published from 1990 to 2020 produced 27 articles with 28 studies and 1864 total participants. Effect sizes were analysed for the influence of English instructional…
Descriptors: Singing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi; Anne-Marie Morgan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study investigated integrating a combined approach of translingualism and transculturalism in an anthropology content learning classroom of a Bangladeshi private university. Data were collected from classroom observation, a pedagogical intervention, a focus group discussion with six students, and a semi-structured interview with the class…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Native Language
Marion Martínez; Leesa Clarke; Lorna Hamilton; Christopher J. Hall – Language Awareness, 2024
This study explored the effects of learning activities which encouraged positive crosslinguistic influence from L2 Spanish to L1 English grammar in young learners. The learners (N = 82) were studying Spanish as their compulsory foreign language at an English state primary school in the UK. As part of ten timetabled Spanish classes over a period of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jasmin Decristan; Victoria Bertram; Valentina Reitenbach; Katharina Maria Schneider; Carmen Köhler; Dominique Patricia Rauch – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
One shared goal of classroom instruction is to support students' reading competence as a key skill of school success and participation in daily life. Yet, teaching that addresses multilingual students' language-related resources to support reading is rare. In this study, we enriched reciprocal teaching with elements of linguistically responsive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, German
Catarina Schmidt; Lisa Molin – Language and Education, 2024
This paper draws on an intervention study focussing on translanguaging pedagogies. The study was carried out in 2020-2022 in collaboration with principals and teachers at one school located in a socioeconomic disadvantaged area in Sweden. Drawing on teachers' logbooks, the aim was to investigate in what ways the theoretical concept of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi; Anne-Marie Morgan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This study investigated the impact of translanguaging pedagogy on the reading comprehension process of first-year students studying at an English department of a Bangladeshi public university. Through a two-pronged ethnographic research design, data were collected through classroom observation, pedagogical intervention, a semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Veslemøy Rydland; Vibeke Grøver – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
The present study investigated whether parent--child interactions during shared reading in a diverse sample of 91 three- to five-year-old dual language learners (DLLs) in Norway supported the development of the children's first (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary skills. The dyads spoke 11 different L1s (i.e., Arabic, Polish, Somali, and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Native Language