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Shiyi Shen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language teachers in China often use picturebooks as complimentary teaching materials to standard textbooks for language instruction. However, research shows that current applications of picturebooks in Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms mainly focus on helping students develop linguistic competence, with little attention on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Jingjing Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Acquisition of the perfective marker "-le" in Mandarin Chinese is a daunting task for second language learners. To date, there has been no consensus on what it is about "-le" that makes it such a challenge to learners. This study investigates the acquisition of "-le" from both a lexical perspective and a discourse…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
Alessia Cherici – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Counterfactuals are a type of conditional sentences used to convey situations that do not correspond to reality. Tense morphology is a core ingredient to encode counterfactuals in English and most Indo-European languages. Mandarin Chinese (hereafter Chinese) lacks tense morphology and does not require counterfactuals to be formally distinguished…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
Dongyang Yuan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Integrating research on both linguistic and semiotic resources of translanguaging practices, this research was carried out using a case study design to understand how translanguaging was used by both ESL teachers and adult language learners in the ESL setting, what functions translanguaging performs, and how teachers and students understand their…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Yadzaida Garcia Padua – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this paper was to study the effectiveness of language acquisition using speaker instruction and listener instruction and examining the emergence of bidirectional intraverbals using a non-sense language. Current research suggests that speaker type instruction is more effective in aiding untrained relations (Contreras et al., 2020;…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Teaching Methods, Listening Skills, Speech Communication
Ghaedi, Hadis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writing in an L2 presents particular challenges (e.g., acculturating into new conventions) but also opportunities (e.g., the Joseph Conrad phenomenon, Scovel, 1988). In general, writing plays diverse roles in social, professional, and academic contexts and can significantly influence a writer's life experiences. Neither L1 nor L2 writers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
Palmer, Ryan C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to understand how context may shape multiple goal negotiation. Prior research has focused on identifying variables that influence goal pursuit in general, but little attention has been given to how these principles operate in different circumstances. This study adopted the Dynamic Systems Model of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Angela Burrell – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study investigated if a relationship existed between teacher language use in the foreign language classroom and student proficiency, student to teacher rapport, and teacher preparedness by their university program or district trainings. The researcher used a language use questionnaire data, pre- and posttest data, and focus group responses to…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
Amr Rabie-Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Within the past few decades, notable contributions have been made in heritage language education research that continued to gain ground in language pedagogy and teaching practices (e.g., Davila, 2017; Valdes, 2000; Fishman, 2001; Kelleher, 2010; Polinsky & Kagan 2007). This dissertation is guided by translanguaging and social identity, two…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Steven G. Gagnon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Due to the typological differences between Korean's aspect system and English's aspect system in terms of progressive construction "-ko iss," learners can no doubt have difficulty acquiring and using the "-ko iss" construction in learner Korean. This dissertation investigates two main points: (i) how is the "-ko iss"…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Korean, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Lillian Ramos – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This is an ethnographic case study that explores and examines the translanguaging practices of three bilingual teachers in a rural elementary school in deep south Texas. Translanguaging guides this analysis. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marta E. Carvajal-Regidor – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation investigates the language ideologies and language practices that language users encounter and engage with in an Intensive English Program (IEP) class. The purpose of examining language ideologies (these include ideologies about language, language use, language learning, language practices, and language teaching) and language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Ideology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Stephanie Eller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative multi-case study examined the co-construction of elementary dual language students' language use and identity to understand how five individual students positioned themselves as bilingual individuals as well as how this relates to their investment in the language-learning process. This study also investigated the influence of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nora A. Alsowaine – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study contributes to the field of pedagogical translation studies. One of the important outcomes is to reveal how some of the Arabic pedagogical translations of Jane Austen's novels are representations and applications of scholastic methods of language teaching that are rooted in the traditional theories of pedagogical translation. This…
Descriptors: Translation, Arabic, Language Processing, Novels
Zilmer, Caleb – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed methods study draws upon theoretical perspectives from usage-based linguistics (UBL) and variationist sociolinguistics to explore four learners' use of second language (L2) Spanish present tense indicative verbal inflectional morphology (i.e., simple present conjugations). The study compares the frequency and distribution of students'…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students
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