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Bardel, Camilla; Gyllstad, Henrik; Tholin, Jörgen – Language Teaching, 2023
This review provides an account of salient research topics in current Swedish research in the field of foreign language (FL) education, with the aim of making locally published work available outside Sweden. A corpus of work on English and other FLs published between 2012 and 2021 has been scrutinized. Focus has been placed on research conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Copland, Fiona; McPake, Joanna – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
In 2003, Mary Louise Pratt published a hugely influential paper in "Profession" where she took to task misconceptions about multilingualism and language learning apparent in the USA in the wake of 9/11 and consequent counter-terrorism measures. She argued that a new public idea about language was necessary in order to ensure unity and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Public Policy, English, Monolingualism
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
Pedro Tavarez DaCosta; Ivanna Tavarez Vásquez; Francheska Arias Reyes – Online Submission, 2025
The present work is a historical/linguistic account of an unprecedented fact regarding the existence of two English Speaking Communities [British English and American English], in our country the Dominican Republic, where Spanish is the official and most used language, to the extent of being considered a monolingual nation or country. It is…
Descriptors: Language Variation, North American English, English, Spanish
Gyogi, Eiko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Increasing linguistic and cultural diversity has led to an increased need for plurilingual pedagogy in the language classroom. This study expands the scope of the existing literature on plurilingual pedagogy in a different context: a Japanese language classroom at an English-medium instruction (EMI) university in Japan. It focuses on students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Park, Mi Yung; Choi, Lee Jin – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
This narrative study focuses on how Gina, a Korean learner with a Korean immigrant mother and a European-descent New Zealander father, constructed her identities and engaged with Korean as a heritage language (HL) before, during, and after studying abroad in Korea. Gina's transformative experiences illustrate the links between HL learning and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Females, Educational Experience, Language Attitudes
María G. Lang; Georgia Earnest García – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This ethnographic study utilized border theory to examine how a bilingual Latinx teacher created equitable instruction for Mexican immigrant second-graders in a 50-50 dual-language (DL) classroom in the U.S. Midwest. Approximately half the students in the DL classroom came from Spanish-speaking, working-class homes, and half from English-speaking,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Ethnography, Bilingual Education Programs, English
Barwell, Richard – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
Research focused on learning mathematics in a 2nd language is generally located in individual 2nd-language contexts. In this ethnographic study, I investigated mathematics learning in 4 different second-language contexts: a mainstream classroom, a sheltered classroom for Indigenous students, a welcome class for new immigrants, and a…
Descriptors: Socialization, Ethnography, Mathematics Instruction, Immigrants
Aspinall, Robert W. – Higher Education Forum, 2018
Japan and Great Britain are both island nations with long histories. Nationalists in both nations like to emphasise the things that separate members of 'our' nation from others across the sea, and this includes language. In the British case the arrogant assumption that 'everyone else can learn English' has led to a serious decline in the number of…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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
Lanvers, Ursula; Hultgren, Kristina; Gayton, Angela Mary – Language Learning Journal, 2019
With English as an undisputed global lingua franca, there is long-standing concern in anglophone countries over the lack of interest in language learning. In the UK, significant changes in language education policy, a mentality of insularity and the global spread of English have all contributed to a drop in language learning uptake beyond the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, English, Native Language
Cabrelli Amaro, Jennifer – Hispania, 2017
Over the last several years, we have been witness to a growing body of work that examines the acquisition of Portuguese as a third language (L3). Here in the United States, Spanish speakers account for 45% of students enrolled in Portuguese classes (Milleret 2012), divided among first language (L1) Spanish speakers, second language (L2) Spanish…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
Mendelowitz, Belinda; Lazar, Karen – English in Education, 2020
We argue that opening a space for dialogic, imaginative writing in the classroom can create entry points for a culturally responsive writing pedagogy (CRWP). We explore how collaborative writing for a pre-existing community digital platform (FundZa) and audience aids the implementation of CRWP in a creative writing course for South African…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Peer Relationship
O'Regan, John P. – Applied Linguistics, 2014
Over the past 15 years or so there has developed a school of thought within English language education and applied linguistics globally which refers to the phenomenon and use of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The thinking of ELF movement researchers has placed their work at the centre of current debates about the form, function and legitimacy…
Descriptors: Language Role, Official Languages, English, English (Second Language)
Falabella, Maria Eugenia – Online Submission, 2011
This current piece of writing--placed, in disciplinary terms, between Psychology of learning and Methodology/Didactics--aims mainly at showing, in the light of present and updated authorized works, the unequivocal relation that is existent between the concept of distributed cognitions and task-based learning. The former was coined by Hutchins…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English, Second Language Instruction, Official Languages