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Veliz, Leonardo; Veliz-Campos, Mauricio – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Dominant processes of economic and cultural globalization have accelerated the use of English as a medium of instruction and precipitated diverse, yet intersected global student mobility, which have resulted in varied forms and uses of English in academic contexts. The present study reports on the findings of research into the attitudes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Chinese, Pronunciation
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Sok, Sarah; Du, Qian; Lee, Jerry Won – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Various examinations are administered at universities across the US as a means of assessing bilingual/multilingual international teaching assistants' (ITAs') proficiency in spoken English before they are permitted to teach. While such exams are taken by students in a range of academic disciplines, recent research suggests that communicative…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Freedman, Justin E.; Dotger, Benjamin H.; Samburskiy, Denis – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
In countries such as the United States and Canada, an increasing number of non-native English speaking graduate students work in the capacity of university teaching assistants. Over the past several decades, a number of communication challenges between non-native English speaking International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) and native English-speaking…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Shin, Sun-Young; Lee, Senyung; Lidster, Ryan – Language Testing, 2021
In this study we investigated the potential for a shared-first-language (shared-L1) effect on second language (L2) listening test scores using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses. We did this in order to understand how accented speech may influence performance at the item level, while controlling for key variables including listening…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Tests, Native Language, Scores
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Anderson, Roger – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
Research has focused almost exclusively on International Teaching Assistants'(ITA) experiences as instructors, overlooking the ITA training class. This has led to the marginalization of Pre-Service ITAs in the literature. The locus of potentially important learning, a descriptive, multiple case study examined the investment (Darvin & Norton,…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Foreign Students, Teaching Experience, Case Studies
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Cai, Chencen; Eisenstein Ebsworth, Miriam – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
We investigate the perceptions of international and American Chinese bilingual pre- and in-service graduate students and language teachers regarding Chinese varieties. The 25 participants were currently enrolled college students or recent graduates majoring in language education or other associated programmes at an urban university in the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Subcultures, Preservice Teachers
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Anh-Thu Thi Nguyen; John C. L. Ingram – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
In the context of English as a global language in which the interaction is not only between native speakers and ESL speakers but also among non-native speakers themselves, there is a need to investigate how well L2 listeners can judge and successfully comprehend accented English produced by other L2 speakers; particularly, how the specific…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation