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Christopher Gras – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The continued spread of Western ideology, English as a lingua franca, and the myth of the native speaker all play a role in the racialisation of language teaching (Phillipson, R. 1992. "Linguistic Imperialism." Oxford: Oxford University Press; Ramjattan, V. A. 2019. Raciolinguistics and the aesthetic labourer. "Journal of Industrial…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Race, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The present study investigated the effects of text-based and audio-based dynamic glosses on L2 vocabulary learning within a sociocultural approach. Dynamic glosses were operationalised as a set of incrementally ordered prompts, provided during text-based and audio-based interactions that guided the participants to identify the meaning of unknown…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
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López, Javier Suso – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This study of the learning of foreign languages in Spain between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries sets out to demonstrate the importance of situating research on any given era in a pan-European plurilingual context. A brief historiographical overview is followed by a discussion of language teaching materials and methods from a sociocultural…
Descriptors: Educational History, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Shalizar, Reza; Rezaei, Amir – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study compares the effect of ZPD feedback with explicit feedback on accuracy in second language (L2) writing. It also examines the effect of focused vs. unfocused ZPD feedback on L2 writing development during teacher-student tutorial sessions. Four participants wrote five persuasive essays and were provided with ZPD or explicit feedback…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Theories, Feedback (Response)
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Skinner, Barbara – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Second language trainee teachers need to use effective classroom language, or 'teacher talk', otherwise opportunities for second language learning can be reduced. However, trainees are often not aware of how their teacher talk influences opportunities for language development in the classroom. This study explores teacher talk data collected from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Sah, Pramod K. – Language Learning Journal, 2023
There is a dearth of knowledge on the emotional challenges content-area teachers in English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes face, and how they manage their emotions in their efforts to negotiate a top-down language policy. This paper examines the entangled emotional experiences of EMI content-area teachers in Nepal's school education. In…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Bao, Rui – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Collaborative dialogue has been seen as an important aspect of L2 learning. However, the extent to which collaborative dialogue contributes to learning depends very much on the context in which it takes place. Informed by a sociocultural perspective of learning, this study investigated the nature of the collaborative dialogue between complete…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The current study investigates the effects of dynamic and non-dynamic oral corrective feedback in response to learners' errors on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' English wh-question development over three treatment sessions. Sixty-eight EFL learners were assigned randomly to one of two experimental conditions that received either…
Descriptors: Error Correction, English (Second Language), Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning
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Tudini, Vincenza – Language Learning Journal, 2018
University students who enrol in foreign language (FL) programmes are motivated by various needs, but in particular the need to achieve communicative fluency, which generally requires interaction with others. This study therefore explores the notion of 'interactivity,' as conceptualised in second language learning theories and how it might be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Blended Learning, College Students, Learning Theories
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Hennebry, Mairin – Language Learning Journal, 2014
A drive for the development of European citizenship (EC) through Modern Foreign Language (MFL) teaching has existed for some time within the academic literature as well as policy institutions. Nevertheless, the views of MFL teachers on the role of MFL in developing EC have rarely been given a voice. This article presents the findings of a study…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Citizenship, Foreign Countries, Modern Languages
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Polat, Nihat – Language Learning Journal, 2011
Although some earlier studies reported female and child superiority in learning a second language (L2), current research has been inconclusive as to whether, and why, this might be the case. Using a socio-cultural paradigm, this study addresses how motivation, gender and age relate to the attainment of a native-like accent for young Kurdish…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Learning Motivation, Gender Differences, Identification (Psychology)
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Huang, Junsheng; Andrews, Stephen – Language Learning Journal, 2010
Language learner strategies (LLS) have long been viewed as a variable of individual differences, or as cognitive skills. This study, focusing as it does on the data taken from a series of focus groups with 47 senior secondary students in mainland China, seeks a new interpretation of strategy development and use from a sociocultural perspective.…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns, Focus Groups, Learning Strategies
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Walters, Sue – Language Learning Journal, 2007
Language learning strategy research has focused on the actions of the individual language learner and investigated the links between successful learning and the strategies that such learners use. At the same time, researchers studying beginner bilingual pupils learning English and learning to read in English in UK schools have also been interested…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Ethnography, English (Second Language), Bilingualism