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Olesya Kisselev; Mihail Kopotev; Anton Vakhranev – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Lexical proficiency in a second language (L2) has long been effectively assessed through the measurement of various lexical indices, or textual characteristics that act as observable indicators of such conceptual categories as lexical richness, diversity, sophistication, and fluency. While many studies have established links between these lexical…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dianna Murphy; Sonya K. Sedivy – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This article is the first large-scale study to document the speaking proficiency outcomes of intensive programs in less commonly taught languages in US higher education. Speaking proficiency was measured by pre- and postprogram ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interviews (N = 484) in 14 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Indonesian,…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Anu Pandey – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Podcasts are a unique media that have been used in Indigenous and endangered language communities in the form of Indigenous radio podcasts, instructional websites, or tools to aid classroom instruction. A podcast called Rituals of Kanauji speakers was created in Kanauji, a low-resource Indian language variety. Using this case study in Kanauji, I…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Audio Equipment, Computer Software, Second Language Learning
Fairul Zabadi; Besse Darmawati; Dessy Wahyuni; Sri Kusuma Winahyu; Dewi Nastiti Lestaningsih; Amirullah Abduh – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
The Kafoa language is one of the indigenous languages in Indonesia so that needs to preserve it to be in existed category and reveal it as language assets in Indonesia and local culture identity. Revealing the Kafoa Language vitality can be conducted through many perspectives, one of them is through the use of basic cultural vocabulary mastery by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Indigenous Populations, Native Language
Brown, Amanda – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Macaro has stated that the choice between a monolingual, immersive, target language-only pedagogy versus a non-immersive, multilingual pedagogy is 'probably the most fundamental question facing second language acquisition (SLA) researchers, language teachers, and policymakers'. Recognizing that prior empirical work on monolingual versus…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Monolingualism
Albayrak, Fatma; Badam, Azzaya – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
One of the bilingual communities surviving today in Mongolia, which is the cultural heritage site of the ancient communities that left their mark on the history of Central Asia, are the Tuvan and the Dukha, which is considered a branch of them. In this study, it is aimed to reflect the language teaching practices carried out for the young…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Case Studies, Native Language
Bull, Tove; Huss, Leena; Lindgren, Anna-Riitta – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
The research question of the present paper is the following: to what degree (if any) is gender relevant as an explanatory factor in, firstly, the process of assimilation and later, the process of (re)vitalisation of indigenous and minority languages in northern Fenno-Scandia (the North Calotte)? The assimilation of the ethnic groups in question…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Language Minorities
C. M. Downey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) over the past decade have largely been driven by the scale of data and computation used to train large neural network-based models. However, these techniques are inapplicable to the vast majority of the world's languages, which lack the vast digitized text datasets available for English and a few other…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Natural Language Processing, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning
Julia Steenwegen; Noel Clycq – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This paper investigates the role of supplementary schools as grassroots educational initiatives whose reach extend beyond individual educational trajectories for minoritized youth. We examine how these schools serve as community forces, emphasizing the importance of resources and relationships. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of funds of…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Cultural Background, Teaching Methods, Minority Group Students
Silvie Prevrátilová – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
Although study abroad is an established research context for second language acquisition, the emotional experiences of U.S. students learning less commonly taught languages, such as Czech, require further research, particularly in settings where these languages lie outside students' primary academic pursuits. This study explores U.S. students'…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction
Dipali Basumatary; Ranjan Maity – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Augmented reality can provide a 3D virtual experience, widely used in modern education. However, the impact of these applications on the underdeveloped tribal community has yet to be investigated. To our knowledge, no markerless augmented reality application has been developed especially for learning the language of the Bodo tribe.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Language Maintenance, Tribes, Teaching Methods
Reagan, Timothy – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022
This book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education. Using the nexus of race, language, and education as a lens through which one can better understand the role of the world language education classroom as both a setting of oppression and as a potential setting for…
Descriptors: Democracy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, National Security
Hoa T. Vinh Le; Nicole Ziegler – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Numerous empirical studies and syntheses have explored technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) (for example, Chong & Reinders, 2020; Kim & Namkung, 2024; Lai & Li, 2011; Ziegler, 2016), with findings highlighting the affordances of technology for interaction and its associated benefits. However, few studies have…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning
Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Language policy and planning in Nepal has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Recently a multilingual policy was issued to create space for the once-banned ethnic/indigenous languages in public schooling, further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Qingyu Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the longitudinal development of Chinese language proficiency among students in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Flagship Program at an American public university from 2014 to 2024. Using Bayesian multilevel regression models, this study assesses the trajectories of listening, speaking, and reading proficiency…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies