NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Fulbright Hays Act1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 144 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nawal Khelalfa; Mountassar-Billah Kellil – SAGE Open, 2023
There has been a considerable shift in opinion in recent years concerning the use of language learners' first language (L1) in the teaching and learning of the second language (L2). Recent research has revealed that L1 use is less problematic than once believed. That research, however, has yet to consider the multiple contextual factors affecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Diego Ortega-Auquilla; Ligia Fernanda Espinosa-Cevallos; Sandy T. Soto; Andrés Bonilla Marchán – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
The study was aimed at determining the essential factors that motivate Ecuadorian university students' English learning. The study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods design by means of the administration of online questionnaires to 2077 students and 109 English instructors. The initial quantitative study results were further explained…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sujeewa Hettiarachchi; Chitra Jayathilake; Sujeeva Sebastian Pereira – Discover Education, 2025
This qualitative study uses deductive thematic analysis to examine the L2 motivation of social science lecturers working in English Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts at selected Sri Lankan universities. Drawing on Dörnyei's (Dörnyei in The psychology of the language learner, Routledge, London, 2005) L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) as its…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Kelley E. Webb – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rising emphasis for students to develop global and intercultural competence leads the purpose of this qualitative study to explore United States (U.S.)-based world language (WL) teachers' understandings and integration of intercultural competence (IC) in their language classrooms. The importance of this study was to add to the extant…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
Catherine Rockey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over the last several decades, language teacher identity has become a growing field of research due to its link with teacher performance and student achievement (Beauchamp & Thomas, 2009; Beijaard et al., 2000). However, graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are often excluded from the LTI research despite language departments' increasing…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Samantha Ott – Online Submission, 2024
Following WWII, the English language became the global Lingua Franca, meaning that it is the primary language used to communicate between people who speak different languages. With the development of English as the Lingua Franca, Americans are generally less exposed to foreign languages than most other nationalities. Some researchers believe that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Soili Norro – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The main focus of the article is on teachers' classroom language practices in eight primary schools in Oshana and Khomas school regions. Language ideologies and translanguaging practices were used as a theoretical framework to evaluate the language ecologies that were created by the language practices in the schools included in the research study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ali Fuad Selvi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Despite the recent proliferation of Global Englishes courses both quantitatively (in terms of the number of programs offered worldwide) and qualitatively (in various sizes, forms, modes, and modalities), large-scale systematic investigations across various contexts are conspicuously underrepresented within the existing body of literature.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Richards, Jack C.; Pun, Jack – ELT Journal, 2022
With the expanding role of English medium instruction (EMI) worldwide there has been an increasing use of English to teach content subjects at tertiary level. In implementing EMI a common assumption has been that the primary issue affecting successful EMI is the English proficiency level of the EMI instructor. This paper reviews this assumption by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language and Education, 2024
This paper reports on a research project which asked scholars to speak about their multilingual and collaborative academic practices. This case study sheds light on the complex and multilayered linguistic choices made by multilingual scholars to comply with the diverse requirements of a multilingual academic life, namely the adoption of EMI…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Cruz-Arcila, Ferney; Solano-Cohen, Vanessa; Briceño-González, María Liliana; Rincón, Ana; Lobato-Junior, Antonio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This study examines hegemonic discourses on English and socioeconomic development from teachers' perspectives. Specifically, it scrutinizes the sorts of positions a group of 36 teachers of English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese in an undergraduate program of modern languages take towards both the predominant narrative of English as the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Windle, Joel; Amorim Possas, Luciana – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Translanguaging has gained prominence as a pedagogical orientation that promises to promote the rights of minoritized migrant students by valuing pre-existing multilingualisms and identities. However, the effects of classroom translanguaging on teacher and student outlooks and relations of inequality are far from universal. In this paper we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ambele, Eric A. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The role of English as a medium of communication among diverse linguacultural users has resulted in a significant rise in the number of new Englishes. Using a semi-structured interview for data collection, this qualitative study investigates the perceptions of six foreign English lecturers at four universities in Thailand towards Thai English and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lou, Kaiyang; Xiong, Tao; Peng, Yue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Along with China's economic development and expanding cultural influence, the Chinese language has attracted an increasing number of learners in Myanmar, a culturally and linguistically diverse country. However, little is known about local languageChinese teachers' language ideologies toward the Chinese language and Chinese language education…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Deborah Charlotte Darling – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Linguistic diversity emerging from international student mobility, in non-anglophone universities, is typically eclipsed by the existing tensions between the national language(s) and English as 'Lingua franca'. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with university lecturers, this study highlights the tensions surrounding national…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10