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Nassif, Lama; Shapiro, Shawna – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Code use, including codeswitching and/or style-shifting, is an important but undertaught aspect of L2 sociolinguistic competence, and an important aspect of L2 learners' translanguaging repertoires. This study examines code use in Arabic--a diglossic language with distinct social uses for the prestige variety (Modern Standard Arabic, MSA) and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Arabic, Sociolinguistics
Winke, Paula – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2022
Developing advanced proficiency in a second language benefits both learners and the societies to which they belong. Educators, employers, and learners can define advanced level proficiency in a language as being able to use language for academic and professional purposes beyond daily life. But being able to use the language at work is not the only…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Identification (Psychology)
Salah M. Ali; Kamariah Yunus; Turky Alshaikhi; Abdussalam Marie Aliia – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2025
The aim of the study is to investigate the use of digital technology in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom using various digital tools through computers and cell phones. These tools and their effect on self-perceived knowledge, learning, and English use were analyzed at the University of Tabuk. The study was conducted on a sample of 605…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept
Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2024
This article examines caregivers' everyday language choices and interactions with children in an urban Zapotec community in Mexico, where Diidxazá is being displaced by Spanish in everyday use. It argues that caregivers' language choices and interactions get entangled in complex ways with the socio-cultural organization of everyday life and with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Urban Areas, Child Caregivers
Chen-Worley, Shu J. – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2023
This study examined teachers' perceptions on language acquisition and education practice for English Language Learners (ELLs) to further address the disproportionality concern in education and identify the areas of training needs for classroom teachers as education renovation. A total of 222 participants voluntarily participated in this study. A…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Language Usage
Amery, Erica – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
This research intends to add to the literature on the topic of challenges faced in fostering intercultural competencies (ICs) in Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) programs. This single qualitative case study explores the challenges associated with fostering ICs. Semi-structured interviews with the program administrators, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Barriers, Cultural Awareness
Ivan Lasan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study explores English-dominant speakers' and English learners' knowledge of (in)formal stylistic variants, their choice of (in)formal styles in relation to social context, their preferences in the use of select (in)formal stylistic variants, and their beliefs about the influence of their other languages. Ten English-dominant undergraduates…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Language Dominance, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chernov, Natalia V.; Zyryano, Svetlana A.; Vukolo, Elena A. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
This article deals with the analysis of the factors influencing the formation of communicative and pragmatic competence in the process of teaching foreign students of the Faculty of Philology, Department of Russian Phraseology. The authors prove that the system of training future teachers of Russian has no sections and courses aimed at the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Hall, Joan Kelly – Modern Language Journal, 2019
A key insight of a transdisciplinary perspective on second language acquisition (SLA) as articulated by the Douglas Fir Group (2016) is its usage-based understanding of language. Evidence on the fundamental role that usage plays in shaping individual language knowledge is no doubt compelling. However, while the force of social interaction in…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Knowledge Level
Mustafa, Rami; Hamdan Alghamdi, Amani K. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2020
This qualitative study investigated Saudi women's decision to invest in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This exploratory study collected semi-structured interview data from nine Saudi women of varying ages and educational and professional backgrounds in seven Saudi Arabian cities. A thematic analysis of the data revealed a wide array…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wedin, Åsa; Aho, Aho – Journal of Social Science Education, 2022
Purpose: The aim is to analyse linguistic aspects of education in Social Sciences for L2 students. Method: Linguistic ethnography is used for studying the hybridity of Social Sciences with material from nine lesson observations and interviews with three teachers. Findings: Findings showed that students' earlier experiences, knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Second Language Learning, Swedish, Teacher Attitudes
Inansugan, Kei; Sajonia, Kethelle; Pastolero, Nelson – Online Submission, 2021
This study mainly explored the use of Discourse Markers (DMs) in journalistic writings and the factors that prompted the BSED English students of CVSC Maragusan to commit errors. This study employed the qualitative research. Ten (10) informants were part of the writing assessment and phone interview and were chosen through purposive sampling. For…
Descriptors: Journalism, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Karakas, Ali; Boonsuk, Yusop – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
This study examines student-teachers' opinions about the spread of the English in general, and the ramifications of its spread as to its co-existence with other languages, speaker profiles, and probable extensions in form and function in two geographically different but English language policy-wise identical Expanding circle countries, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Deng, Jun; Ranta, Leila – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2019
This article presents an investigation of L2 pragmatic development by a group of 19 Chinese EFL teachers who participated in a five-month program in Canada (SA group). A written discourse-completion task (WDCT) was administered to assess participants' pragmatic knowledge of how to make requests in English. They also completed a paper-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
al-Utbi, Mahdi I. Kareem; Aljubory, Mawj K. Obeid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This paper tries to answer whether Iraqi EFL college students are able to reset the parametric values of their native Arabic into those which suit English. It aims at enhancing Iraqi students' knowledge of some of the parametric values of English via tackling three parameters: "Null-subject parameter," "Head-parameter," and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students