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Ren, Beibei – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writer identity has gradually become a focus in writing scholarship in recent years. From a social constructivist lens, writer identity is not optional; it resides in all texts. And it is a construct that does not exist in a vacuum, but is shaped by the sociocultural and academic context, and simultaneously individual writers agentively select…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Constructivism (Learning)
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Koshiba, Kenta – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
This paper explores how the discourse of Japanese ethnolinguistic identity differently affected three youths in a heritage language class in Australia. Based on a case study involving these informants, I show how the discourse was contested, reproduced, and appropriated. More specifically, I show how language was disaligned from ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Kotilainen, Lari; Kurhila, Salla – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This article explores language learning as the speakers' microlongitudinal project in interaction. Using conversation analysis (CA) as a method, we present a single-case analysis on how a change occurs in the linguistic repertoire of 2 learners of Finnish. We discuss the challenges that the temporal aspect in learning poses within CA, such as the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
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Sybing, Roehl – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The contemporary literature regarding dialogic classroom interaction has primarily focused on the meaning-making attributes of dialogue while acknowledging but otherwise providing less emphasis to the social dimensions of the learning community and the dialogic resources that students bring to the classroom. As a result, this paper explores the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Native Language, Japanese
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Davie, Jim – Applied Language Learning, 2023
Graduates who typically have L1 English, have majored in one foreign language (FL, L2) or more at university and have gone on to occupy FL posts in the UK civil service have reported mismatches between their pre-employment L2 learning and the tasks they face in the workplace. Such reported divergences in UK civil service capability have not,…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Majors (Students)
Choe, Ann Tai; Nguyen, Hanh thi; Vicentini, Cristiane – TESOL in Context, 2022
Despite rising interests in the manifestations of second language (L2) interactional competence (IC) in online language learning activities (e.g., Balaman & Sert, 2017a, 2017b), participants' interactional practices for managing epistemic stances in online searches remains largely unexplored. This paper examines how an intermediate-level…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yakushkina, Maria – Language Learning Journal, 2021
According to research in pragmatics, gender represents an important factor in individuals' turn-taking behaviour, with results indicating overall male-dominated conversational patterns. Despite the significance of gender in the students' conversational styles in an academic setting, gender and turn-taking has yet to be investigated in the foreign…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Lopera Medina, Sergio Alonso – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This paper explores self-plagiarism in three different articles that reported results of the same research project on reading in a foreign language. This article follows the qualitative research method and an exploratory case study was used. Results support that both inadequate paraphrasing and adequate paraphrasing were given. Regarding…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research
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Jin, Xiaoling – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This paper reports a case study focusing on naturalistic communication between a Chinese beginning non-native speaker of English (NNS) and an English native speaker (NS). The participants engage informally in a form of tandem learning, with each in turn taking the dominant role in the conversation through teaching the other vocabulary items in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Case Studies
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Ardell, Lillian – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
To support emergent bilinguals in the content area classroom, applied linguists suggest teachers add metalinguistic conversations to their pedagogical repertoire. However, such language-centered pedagogies may become difficult to enact when a teacher sees language at the word level. This comparative teacher case study explores how teacher…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Milawati; Suryati, Nunung; Rohmah, Dewi Wardah Mazidatur – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study presents the informal formative assessment practice embedded in teacher-students interaction in daily teaching activities. Although many previous studies claimed as informal formative assessment, the adequate information on how informal formative assessment integrated in EFL classroom interaction in the higher education level was not…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Montalvo, Lucy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Dual language (DL) schools provide literacy in students' native languages; however, it is unknown if there is a focus on oral language (OL) development, an essential component for emergent bilinguals'(EB) literacy development. The purpose of this mixed-methods case study is to understand what DL teachers in Virginia know about OL instruction when…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Literacy Education
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Hellmich, Emily A. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Recent calls from applied linguistics and from CALL have emphasized the importance of situating the understanding and use of digital tools for language learning within layered contexts. An important component of these layered contexts is societal discourses of technology, which are multiple and far from neutral. In response to these calls, this…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Mas-Alcolea, Sònia; Torres-Purroy, Helena – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Many scholars have highlighted the great variability of second language acquisition outcomes and, thus, the inconsistencies and inconclusiveness in the study abroad literature. These have called for longitudinal, case-based research that focuses on the students' processes (rather than outcomes) and that showcases the heterogeneity of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Study Abroad, Case Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Darvin, Ron – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Based on a study of the digital literacy practices of immigrant Filipino students in Vancouver, this paper focuses on how learners with unequal access to resources engage with different tools to locate information and find opportunities for language learning online. Data was collected through interviews and observations of participants as they…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immigrants
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