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Gu, Michelle Mingyue; Chiu, Ming Ming; Li, Jennie Zhen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
This study examines how immigrants' enculturation/acculturation, language use, and parenting were linked to their oral and written language proficiencies in multilingual Hong Kong (speak English, speak Cantonese, read and write Chinese). Participants in this study included 655 immigrant parents (from Pakistan, Nepal, India, Philippines, Indonesia,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Maa, Joy; Taguchi, Naoko – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Increasingly prevalent use of technologies such as instant messaging and online chat has transformed our traditional ways of learning and teaching pragmatics. This study presents an example of such transformation by demonstrating how computer-mediated communication (CMC) may be employed as a tool to provide second language (L2) learners…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Gutiérrez, Claudia Patricia – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
Critical language teaching education has become an inescapable endeavor for language teacher education programs. To contribute to this effort, this paper outlines the implementation of an English course from a critical, intercultural perspective, during the first semester of a language teacher education program in Colombia. It also reports the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language)
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Perez-Gomez, Francisco; Cortes Coss, Dina Elizabeth – English Language Teaching, 2021
In student-teachers' education, it is fundamental to foster the intercultural communicative competence for them to express their views on cultural concepts and phenomena in written and orally, with native and non-native speakers of a foreign language. In the same vein, future foreign language teachers, particularly at an early stage of their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Learning Processes, Self Concept
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Djafri, Fatmawati – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This study examined further investment in Japanese language learning from the perspective of Indonesian learners of Japanese through their study abroad experience in Japan. Employing a model of investment proposed by Darvin and Norton, the study analyzed learners' oral and written narratives, focusing on three key constructs, namely identity,…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
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Saeli, Hooman; Cheng, An – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2019
This project firstly explored Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students' perceptions about written corrective feedback (WCF)-related practices and preferences. Secondly, the student participants' first language (L1; e.g., Farsi) learner identities were operationalized, especially focusing on the skill of writing, WCF, and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
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Kohn, Kurt; Hoffstaedter, Petra – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article discusses insights gained from a case study on telecollaboration for intercultural communication in foreign language school contexts. Focus was on non-native English and German lingua franca conversations between pairs of students (aged 14-16, B1 level) from schools in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. Telecollaboration…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Intercultural Communication
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Tosky King, Elena; Scott, Lakia M. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2014
Purpose: This paper aims to progress the dialogue on language rights in the urban classroom. Research has evidenced how language can serve as a powerful tool in mainstream ideologies; more specifically, the preferred and dominant use of Standard Written English in the American classroom has demonstrated how language serves as a gatekeeper for…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Variation