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Rainbow Tsai-Hung Chen – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Developing learners' intercultural communicative competence is considered to be one of the responsibilities of English language teaching professionals. This responsibility has become ever more challenging in today's globalized world, in which most intercultural communication occurs in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts, where a target…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Reynolds, Dudley – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Debates around the impact of English-medium instruction (EMI) as part of transnational higher education (TNHE) typically focus on macro-level impacts on host country languages, cultures, and economies. Adopting the methodology of institutional ethnographies, this reflective study narrates how I came to find problematic such totalizing narratives…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Aubrey, Scott; Philpott, Andrew – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This 13-week study investigated changes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' motivational states due to face-to-face inter-cultural and intra-cultural contact treatments in a Japanese EFL classroom. Drawing on the L2 motivational Self System and International Posture, this quasi-experimental study took the form of a between-groups…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Fernández-Agüero, María; Chancay-Cedeño, Carlos – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to identify how Ecuadorian university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) tackle intercultural teaching practice in their classrooms. To this end, we studied the reported intercultural practices of 68 EFL university teachers from Ecuadorian Region 4. Quantitative data drawn from a questionnaire were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty
Xu, Zhichang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
The English language has been going through a dual process of globalization and nativization. The globalization of English renders the language into a global lingua franca and an international language, whereas the nativization of English diversifies it into varieties of English, namely, World Englishes. Such 'glocalization' of English has…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Global Approach
Hiller, Kristin E. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article describes an innovative approach to introducing translanguaging in an English for academic purposes (EAP) course at a young Sino-US joint-venture university in China. To promote the use of Chinese students' full linguistic and communicative repertoires in an English-medium-of-instruction university, I intentionally incorporated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Takeuchi, Osamu; Ikeda, Maiko; Mizumoto, Atsushi – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
This article explores the cerebral mechanism of reading aloud activities in L2 learners. These activities have been widely used in L2 learning and teaching, and its effect has been reported in various Asian L2 learning contexts. However, the reasons for its effectiveness have not been examined. In order to fill in this gap, two studies using a…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Instructional Effectiveness, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Teaching Methods
Nguyen, Minh Thi Thuy – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
Although a key component in English language teaching programs, English textbooks have been criticized for not offering classroom learners adequate opportunity for learning authentic language (Bardovi-Harlig, 2001; Grant and Starks, 2001; Wong, 2002; Vellenga, 2004). This is because instead of making use of language samples that native speakers…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Speech Acts, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Baker, Will – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2008
With the increasingly significant role that English language teaching (ELT) is playing in Asian contexts, it is important to gain a better understanding of the use of English as a medium of intercultural communication in Asia. In doing so, ELT practices may be better able to adapt themselves to the intercultural communicative needs of local…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Nihalani, Paroo – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2008
Communication is one of the keywords of the global age. The ever-increasing use of English as a World language has clearly meant that British RP and American Standard English (GA) are no longer seen as the models that learners aspire to. With the global spread of English, three major related questions come to our mind: (a) diversity and…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Intercultural Communication, Global Approach