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Direct linkBonder, Linda E. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
Many researchers have explored language learning investment since Norton Peirce (1995) introduced the concept. However, most investment studies have recruited participants through language classes, which presupposes participant investment in formal learning. The current study went outside the classroom context by conducting ethnographic interviews…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Mambu, Joseph Ernest – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
Based on a larger case study project at an English language teacher education program in Indonesia, this article demonstrates how Christian and non-Christian students negotiate their religious faiths in English-language-teaching (ELT) settings. In view of the critical spiritual pedagogy perspective, the current study defies dichotomizing religious…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Christianity
Chao, Xia – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
Grounded in the whole person perspective of language learners and the concepts of investment and L2 socialization, this qualitative study explores how community service learning (CSL) contributes to international students' L2 practices and identity development. This study finds that CSL creates "a pedagogical contact zone" outside the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
Miri, Mowla; Alibakhshi, Goudarz; Mostafaei-Alaei, Mahnaz – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
The authors report on a study aimed at exploring the role of a teacher education program (TEP) rested upon the tenets of critical pedagogy in influencing teachers' cognitions and practices concerning first-language (L1) use in second-language (L2) classrooms. Participants were 10 Iranian English as a foreign language teachers, whose cognitions…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Negative Attitudes
Kangas, Sara E. N. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
Through an ethnographic study of one suburban elementary school, the delivery of services to English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities was investigated. The data analysis revealed that often disability-related and English as a Second Language (ESL) services were in contention, as scheduling, teacher expertise, school culture, and ESL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Delivery Systems, Interdisciplinary Approach
Chao, Xia; Xue, Mo; Xu, Ming – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
In response to the national and individual needs for English instruction, China mandated English provision in elementary schools in 2001. Grounded in the work of Bourdieu, this study examines professional Chinese parents' language attitudes in relation to their social positions. It draws data from interviews with 20 professional Chinese parents…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary Schools, Parent Attitudes
Al-Issa, Ali S. M. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2013
This study asks questions and elicits answers about the importance of English language teaching (ELT) instruction time on the national curriculum in the Sultanate of Oman from an ideological perspective. It triangulates data from semi-structured interviews made with different agents involved in the Omani ELT system and representing different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Nagashima, Julie T. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2012
The author analyzes two teachers' narratives of their understanding and practice of Daisaku Ikeda's (1928-) philosophy of Soka (value-creating) education in relation to narratives of their experiences as students at the Soka schools he founded. These narratives both triangulate an implicit though culturally specific language used to articulate…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Humanistic Education, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Student Relationship
Yamada, Mieko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2013
This article investigates how Japanese university students perceive Japan's domestic diversity and understand the role of English within that context. Surveys and interviews with Japanese students reveal how they reflect on their own experiences with diversity in their past English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes and also help to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Surveys
