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Ares Llop Naya; Eloi Puig-Mayenco; Anna Paradís – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This paper provides fresh insights on how PIs (Polarity Items) in non-veridical contexts (questions and conditionals) are represented in the grammar of multilingual learners of Catalan at different stages of development. It explores how this non-native grammatical system interacts with other previously acquired systems of negation and the implicit…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), English
Marie Alina Yeo; Jonathan Mark Newton – TESOL Journal, 2025
While it is widely accepted that language teachers require knowledge of second language acquisition (SLA) (Richards, 2010), what about content teachers, who are increasingly required to help develop their learners' academic language proficiency? How much do they need to know about SLA theories and how can they acquire such knowledge and expertise?…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Models
Beatriz González-Fernández – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers have long searched for patterning in the development of linguistic elements (e.g., grammar and morphology). However, little attention has been given to the examination of systematicity in vocabulary acquisition, limiting our understanding about how overall vocabulary is learnt. The current study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Sequential Learning, Written Language
Muhammet Yasar Yüzlü; Simon Mumford – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
This study explores the perspectives of the two authors, who have very different language backgrounds, reflecting the subtleties of first and additional language development. We distinguish between a 'literacy-track' (i.e. starting from written language) and an oracy track (starting from spoken language). We draw on duoethnography for our dialogic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnography, Dialogs (Language)
Moegamat Y. Feltman – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: The article critiques the monoglossic ideologies that dominate current educational practices in South Africa, which often marginalise indigenous African languages and fail to facilitate the dynamic multilingual realities of learners. It examines the impact of English language pedagogies in multilingual settings, particularly in South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism
Emily Phillips Galloway; Heather M. Meston; Christina L. Dobbs – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
To inform the design of humanizing pedagogies that draw on the whole of learners' linguistic resources, educators must come to know students as language users, and, more centrally, support students to become aware of the dynamism of their own linguistic repertoires. We highlight one instructional approach--"linguistic cartography"--for…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Mapping, Language Skills
Marije Michel; Dwight Atkinson; Amable Custodio Ribeiro; Theodora Alexopoulou; Marco Cappellini; Søren Wind Eskildsen; Xuesong Gao; John Hellermann; Hayriye Kayi-Aydar; Wander Lowie; Jorge Andres Mejía-Laguna; Lourdes Ortega; Simona Pekarek Doehler; Miyuki Sasaki; Masatoshi Sato; Steven L. Thorne; Yongyan Zheng – Modern Language Journal, 2025
In this final article in this guest-edited issue on synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T), we attempt to bring together the main content of this issue in an overall, combined synergy statement, concluding this project as a whole. Let us remind readers of the project: A shared effort by 17 scholars taking 11 different…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Second Language Instruction, Educational Research
Mohamed A. Mekheimer – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study explored the efficacy of video podcasts (VODcasts) in fostering whole-language learning among college EFL students. Employing a quasi-experimental design with pre-tests, post-tests, and a control group, the research compared the effects of a one-year remedial instruction program. The experimental group received instruction incorporating…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Technology Uses in Education
Jacqueline Zammit – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
This study examines the potential of virtual reality (VR) technology in language learning, specifically for the Maltese language. Despite the popularity and advancement of VR, its use in teaching minor languages like Maltese has not been extensively explored. The concern is that the lack of technological resources may lead to the extinction of the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Foreign Students, Language Minorities, Language Acquisition
Alessia Cherici – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Counterfactuals are a type of conditional sentences used to convey situations that do not correspond to reality. Tense morphology is a core ingredient to encode counterfactuals in English and most Indo-European languages. Mandarin Chinese (hereafter Chinese) lacks tense morphology and does not require counterfactuals to be formally distinguished…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
John Martin Metallo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The number of English language learners (ELLs) has increased. The problem is ELLs in a middle Tennessee Charter School network meet challenges in achieving English proficiency, thus limiting academic and social prospects. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if there was a relationship between leader-led…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Faculty Development
Michele Back; Manuela Wagner – Dimensions, 2024
In this position paper we present research and data demonstrating how pedagogical frameworks traditionally used in TESOL contexts can be harnessed by world language (WL) educators to scaffold language learning and advocate for emergent multilingual language learners (EMLLs). Focusing on three pedagogical frameworks--Sheltered Instruction…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Asli Aktan-Erciyes; Ebru Ger; Tilbe Göksun – First Language, 2024
This study investigates the influences of early and intense L2 exposure on children's L1 causative verb production, assessed by an experimental causative verb production task. Turkish expresses causality by morphological and lexical means, whereas English does so by periphrastic and lexical means. Learning L2 English might enhance L1 Turkish…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Anastasia Paspali; Theodoros Marinis; Artemis Alexiadou – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The acquisition of voice in Greek remains understudied, especially in heritage populations. Voice in Greek poses a challenging acquisition task for children due to its syncretism, marking various verb classes as well as passives. The present study explores the acquisition of anticausatives, reflexives, and passives in 6-to-8-year-old monolingual…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli, Preferences
Piotr Romanowski – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Multilingualism does not enhance further language learning in learners if they are not supported by the school environment. Learning L3, L4 or Ln is attained best when language users take advantage and are aware of the existence of their overall linguistic knowledge. It is the teacher whose understanding and beliefs about multilingual pedagogies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Language Teachers