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Ying Wang – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This paper uncovers L1 Chinese speakers' online intercultural communication where they deploy English as a lingua franca and other spatial repertoires to co-construct translanguaging practices with their interlocutors and present three-fold identities--translingual, L1 Chinese, and legitimate users of English, leading to the argument that…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Chinese, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
Reni Kusumaningputri – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the existence of many studies on the identity of language learners in the offline settings, few focus on how English language learners in the expanding circle construct their identity through their use of English and their choices over their first language capital as they enjoy variations of multilinguacultural exposes in the digital…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Official Languages, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Enrico Grazzi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The aim of this personal reflection is to revisit the major concepts that have informed my academic research in the area of applied linguistics and second language development, and show how my overall pedagogical approach has evolved, thanks to the contribution of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory (SCT). The main focus of this paper is on the…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tsoumou, Jean Mathieu – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth of the English language worldwide. Now more than at any time in linguistic history people are powerlessly assisting the expansion of one global language, English, dominating other languages even in countries, such as Congo-Brazzaville, where its presence was not long ago barely observed. There has…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Usage
van Mulken, Margot; Hendriks, Berna – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
This paper reports on an experimental study investigating alternative communication modes to English as a Lingua Franca. The purpose was to examine the effectiveness of different modes of communication and to gain insight in communication strategies used by interlocutors to solve referential conflicts. Findings show that ELF may not necessarily be…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computer Mediated Communication, Official Languages, English (Second Language)
Jenks, Christopher Joseph – Applied Linguistics, 2012
Great diversity exists in the way English is being used in the world today. It is now not uncommon to hear a Korean and a Brazilian do business in English, or a Syrian and a Norwegian debating politics in an English-speaking chat room. As opportunities to use English increase and evolve, researchers are left with the difficult challenge of…
Descriptors: Interaction, Synchronous Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Illes, Eva – ELT Journal, 2012
This article explores whether the perception of learner autonomy that is promoted in language pedagogy is suitable for preparing students to perform successfully in the changed circumstances of the use of English. Recent developments, which include the growing role of English as a lingua franca and computer-mediated communication (CMC), give rise…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Computer Mediated Communication
Demont-Heinrich, Christof – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2012
This article looks at how mother-tongue English speakers and those who do not have English as a mother tongue discuss the complex questions that swirl around the "global" hegemony of English when given an opportunity to discuss these "directly" with one another. The article does so via an analysis of a series of online…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages, Native Speakers
Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers