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Anna Hogan; Sue Creagh; Bob Lingard; Taehee Choi; Prem Prasad Poudel – Language and Education, 2025
The logics of policy privatisation in schooling, including decentralisation, school autonomy, and discretionary funding mechanisms, shift responsibility for particular types of students onto individual schools and their staff. Burch (2021) asks to what extent the most disadvantaged students in government schools are able to access services most…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Privatization, Inclusion, Second Language Instruction
Mohammed Salem Alshehri – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The efficacy of the "integrated approach," which calls for the simultaneous integration of two varieties in teaching Arabic as a second language (L2), has not yet been rigorously examined, and the very few available studies suffer from many methodological limitations. The current study sought to bridge this gap in the literature by…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency, Accuracy
Joseph B. Quinto – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
Pinoylish (Philippine English) has made a mark in the literature, although research on the perspectives of university students on Pinoylish is still scarce. As a result, a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was undertaken to investigate the awareness and notions of 761 university students in Northern Luzon, Philippines. The results…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes
Nagle, Charlie L.; Huensch, Amanda; Zárate-Sández, Germán – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Although current approaches to second language (L2) pronunciation underscore that instruction should concentrate on pronunciation features that help learners be more intelligible (and not necessarily more native like), there is little empirical evidence as to what those features are, especially in languages other than English. To address this gap,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Phonetics, Intelligibility
Gregory De La Piedra – Dimensions, 2023
Word Analysis is an approach to teach second language (L2) students about cultural perspectives which are understood collectively as the ideas, values, beliefs, and experiences many native speakers have regarding cultural domains within their own cultures. Word Analysis is anchored on the relationships between language and communication, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Spanish, Textbooks
Jennifer M. Ono – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study provides a radical transformative framing of the power language dynamic in K-6 classrooms in the U.S. The quantitative phase of the study determined the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy and the use of linguistically responsive techniques in the classroom. The study's qualitative phase…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Creoles
McInerney, Erin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The many permutations of spoken English have called for an interrogation into the notions of 'standard English' and 'native accents'. Despite their problematic nature, these terms remain commonly used, and familiarity with 'standard', inner-circle varieties of English is typical among L2 English speakers, differences in education and language…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation
Schmidt, Lauren B. – Hispania, 2022
The objective of the current study is to investigate the development of awareness of dialectal differences in Spanish by second language learners in a formal language learning classroom setting in the United States. Sensitivity toward different regional varieties of a language forms part of socio-linguistic--and ultimately,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Dialects, Pronunciation
Abdullah Esshali – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigates the simplifications used with English consonant clusters by EFL learners of Saudi Najdi Arabic dialect (a dialect spoken in the central region of Saudi Arabia). More particularly, it focused on the Saudi Najdi speakers when they pronounce English final three-consonant clusters such as /lps/ as in "helps." The…
Descriptors: Arabic, Dialects, Phonemes, English (Second Language)
Pichet Prakaianurat; Preena Kangkun – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study combines qualitative and quantitative methods to explore 15 English program (EP) students' attitudes toward English varieties and how they negotiate social meanings and construct their identity through stylistic practices in classroom discourse and English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions. Through a verbal guise test,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yousra Abourehab – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article examines teacher ideologies and multilingual practices in teaching Arabic as a heritage language in the USA. Using indexicality and its nexus to language ideologies, it identifies the key index values assigned to Standard Arabic (SA) and how these shape teacher positioning for teaching Arabic heritage. The article also analyzes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Heritage Education, Arabic
Ali Karakas – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This paper evaluates Voki, a digital platform for creating speaking avatars, in the context of Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT). It firstly outlines the benefits of using animated characters in online tools to personalize language lessons and engage students. As a web-based application, Voki offers various customization options, including…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Grammon, Devin – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article employs a language ideological framework to explore how particular language attitudes and beliefs shaped one group of U.S. students' choices to avoid producing a dialectal variant, Castilian Spanish [theta], in the context of an undergraduate Spanish pronunciation class. An analysis of ethnographic data points to the significance of…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ideology, Beliefs, Decision Making
Lin Chen; Danping Wang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The field of language policy and planning has seen increasing scholarly attention that explores social actors' micro language planning towards a given language policy situation at the grassroots level. In educational contexts, teachers and educators are often considered pivotal locals whose agency, when enacted in micro language planning, can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Heritage Education, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
Bryan, Kisha; Romney-Schaab, Mary; Cooper, Ayanna – CATESOL Journal, 2022
The field of TESOL has experienced a renewed interest in the role of race in language teaching and learning within the context of the recent "racial reckoning" in the US. As a result, the field has seen a plethora of DEI position statements, initiatives, and publications on race, racism, and anti-racism over the past two years. However,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, English (Second Language), Diversity, Equal Education