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Adriano Delego – English Teaching Forum, 2025
When it comes to learning an additional language, it is important that teachers prepare students to communicate with different speakers, respecting and understanding the different English-accented speeches around the world. This article helps English teachers from different parts of the world embrace language variation in their lessons,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonetics, Phonology, English Instruction
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
Washington, Julie A.; Lee-James, Ryan; Stanford, Carla Burrell – Reading Teacher, 2023
There is tremendous variation in the use of American English by major geographic regions, as well as within these regions or cities, and by cultural background. The variety of English spoken by many African American people in the United States is called African American English (AAE). AAE affects early literacy skills in ways that may require…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Black Dialects, Language Variation, Teaching Methods
Sandberg, Chaleece W.; Blanchette, Frances; Lukyanenko, Cynthia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Insights from linguistic variation research illustrate a linguistically diverse population, in which even speakers who can be classified as speaking a "mainstream" variety have grammatical knowledge of vernacular or "nonmainstream" features. However, there is a gap in our knowledge regarding how vernacular features are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Aphasia, Stimuli, Language Variation
Musa Nushi; Alireza Aghaei – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Culture is an inseparable part of English Language Teaching (ELT), and ELT textbooks, as one of the main instructional resources are bound to include cultural and linguistic content. However, the kind of cultural content in these books has been a controversial issue for decades. It is recommended that curriculum designers use intercultural…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yachao Sun; Huan Feng – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study explored the impacts of translingual practices on English as an additional language (EAL) writing education in a non-English as a medium of instruction (non-EMI) context at a Chinese university. The findings highlighted the benefits of translingual practices in enhancing students' comprehension, easing cognitive challenges, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Daly, Nicola; McKee, Rachel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Picturebooks are powerful educational tools, both for their content and their contributions to the literacy development of children. In New Zealand bilingual picturebooks featuring Te Reo Maori and New Zealand English have increased in number since the 1980s when Te Reo Maori gained official status and revitalisation efforts burgeoned. More…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Picture Books, Sign Language, Literacy
Richard Beach – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2025
Purpose: This paper posits the need for English language arts (ELA) teachers to foster students' use of languaging about their relations with ecosystems and peers, leading to their engaging in collective action to critique and transform status-quo systems impacting the climate crisis. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reviews the current…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Criticism, Language Usage, Native Language
Deutschmann, Mats; Borgström, Eric; Falk, Daroon Yassin; Steinvall, Anders; Svensson, Johan – Language Awareness, 2023
The study describes a pedagogic adaptation of the matched guise technique with the aim to raise linguistic self-awareness of L2 accentedness stereotyping effects among Swedish pre-service teachers. In the experiment, 290 students attending teacher training programs were exposed to one of two matched guises, representing either L1 accented Swedish,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Metalinguistics, Swedish
Nassif, Lama; Basheer, Nesrine – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Developing sociolinguistic competence in Arabic can be a complex process given how Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Colloquial Arabic (CA) are used within a changing sociolinguistic environment in Arabic-speaking communities. Findings from empirical research suggest that second language (L2) Arabic learners who receive multidialectal training in…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Arabic, Dialects, Second Language Learning
Bohyon Chung; Hyun Kyung Miki Bong – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper examined whether a younger starting age of formal instruction on a foreign language is beneficial in expanding circle countries. An experimental study was designed to examine to what extent the five varieties of English language teachers are intelligible to Japanese- (JSLs) and Korean-speaking language learners (KSLs), who have…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Lianjiang Jiang; Xiaoyue Zhang; Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
While the importance of linguistically responsive teaching (LRT) in multilingual classrooms is well documented, preservice English teachers' conceptions of LRT and the pertinent sociocultural processes that shape their LRT conceptions and practices remain under-researched. Qualitatively examining the experiences and understandings of 15 preservice…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
Judy, Tiffany; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; Martín-Villena, Fernando; Miller, David – Second Language Research, 2023
This study tests the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CSH) as applied to adult second language acquisition of aspect in Spanish. The CSH purports that differences among tutored and untutored learners result from competition between one system of underlying grammatical knowledge and another of learned metalinguistic knowledge in tutored learners…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Jasmine Byrd – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Perspectives from educators and students elucidate how systemic language discrimination and oppression (i.e., linguicism) are perpetuated in the New York education system, even though it has one of the most comprehensive approaches to supporting multilingual students in the nation (Sugarman, 2016). The legacy of teaching English as a colonizing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Attitudes
French, Leif M.; Beaulieu, Suzie – Language Awareness, 2020
Research has pointed to the importance of introducing social aspects of language at the beginning stages of second language (L2) acquisition (Yates, 2017). This proof-of-concept study therefore sought to determine if an explicit pedagogical intervention consisting of various types of sociolinguistic awareness activities could be implemented with…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes