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Cheng Yao; Supawadee Kanjanakate; Nirat Jantharajit – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
In the contemporary era of globalization, learning a second language has become a pivotal means to broaden individual perspectives and enhance competitiveness. English, as the lingua franca of international communication, assumes particular importance. This paper delves into the integrated application of situated learning (SL) and task-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Executive Function
Samantha Ott – Online Submission, 2024
Following WWII, the English language became the global Lingua Franca, meaning that it is the primary language used to communicate between people who speak different languages. With the development of English as the Lingua Franca, Americans are generally less exposed to foreign languages than most other nationalities. Some researchers believe that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Cruz-Arcila, Ferney; Solano-Cohen, Vanessa; Briceño-González, María Liliana; Rincón, Ana; Lobato-Junior, Antonio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This study examines hegemonic discourses on English and socioeconomic development from teachers' perspectives. Specifically, it scrutinizes the sorts of positions a group of 36 teachers of English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese in an undergraduate program of modern languages take towards both the predominant narrative of English as the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Devadas, Lydia; Vighnarajah – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
Over the centuries, the notion of women's empowerment has created an immense effect on both women and men. This research aims to study the influence of the English language in shaping the concept of women's empowerment amongst undergraduate students in a private university in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to identify male and female…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Role, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
de Beaufort, Lorraine – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
There is a great deal of research literature that treats language learning as a process of identity construction, but relatively few studies have investigated so-called additional languages. This article presents interview and other narrative data from a single language learner studying French as an additional language in Hong Kong. Using the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
Bo, Wenjin Vikki; Fu, Mingchen; Lim, Wei Ying – Language Testing, 2023
The role of international students' English language proficiency has been extensively researched to understand its impact on academic achievement in English-medium universities, mainly because of students' non-English-speaking backgrounds. However, the relationship between language proficiency and academic achievement among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The ideological role of English, beyond its instrumental value, is reported to be immense. British colonial rule deployed English as an ideological tool which facilitated colonial subjugation and religious conversion. Connections between English and evangelism have widened in the postcolonial and globalising world, leading to labelling English as…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yakushkina, Maria – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
In a present-day global world, immigrant communities manage multiple cultural and linguistic contexts. To better understand these cross-cultural connections, and bridge the fields of linguistics and transnationalism, the present study analyzes the interconnection between language use and symbolic transnationalism among heritage speakers of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Cubans, Biculturalism, Spanish
Garcia, Glenda Darlene V. – Reading Psychology, 2023
Recent studies have proposed developments to the Simple View of Reading to reflect reading development across age groups and differences among learner profiles and account for additional factors that explain reading comprehension performance beyond word recognition and language comprehension. One of these proposals is the inclusion of cognitive…
Descriptors: Executive Function, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Borghetti, Claudia – Intercultural Communication Education, 2019
Just over ten years ago, Block (2007, p. 2) called the increasing attention that second language researchers-and social scientists at large-were giving to the construct of "identity" an "obsession." Since then, the identities of those who use, learn or study a language have been investigated in greater detail (e.g., Benson,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
Bolander, Brook; Sultana, Shaila – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This paper adopts a transglossic approach to explore the ordinariness of English amongst Muslim communities in South and Central Asia. It thereby maintains that studying English as an ordinary part of these communities' repertoires is contingent upon an approach to religion as situated, discursive, and interactive. This approach to religion is key…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Muslims, Second Language Instruction
Tardy, Christine M.; Sommer-Farias, Bruna; Gevers, Jeroen – Written Communication, 2020
Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre knowledge, genre awareness, recontextualization, conditional knowledge, and metacognition. Definitions of these concepts have at times conflicted, and their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Metacognition
Adriana Raquel Diaz; Paul J. Moore – Intercultural Communication Education, 2018
Over twenty-five years ago, leading scholars in the field of intercultural communication William B. Gudykunst, Stella Ting-Toomey and Richard Wiseman published the paper "Taming the beast: Designing a course in intercultural communication." We revisit their work in light of renewed interest in the design and implementation of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
He, Shuhua; Yang, Lu; Leung, Genevieve; Zhou, Qing; Tong, Rosina; Uchikoshi, Yuuko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Building on research that has demonstrated the benefits of Dual-Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programmes on students' bilingual, academic, and cross-cultural development (Lindholm-Leary and Hernández 2011), this study examines the links between dual language proficiency and competence in elementary students enrolled in a Cantonese DLBE…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Bilingual Education Programs, Academic Achievement, Language Skills
Morganna, Ruly; Sumardi; Tarjana, Sri Samiati – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
"The status quo" of English as the world lingua franca (Choi, 2016; Fang, 2017; Kusumaningputri & Widodo, 2018; Liu & Fang, 2017), the increasing role of English as an additional language for nowadays Indonesian generation (Lauder, 2008), and the nature of Indonesian EFL students as multicultural people (Hamied, 2012; Sukyadi,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries