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Breeze, Ruth; Roothooft, Hanne – Language Awareness, 2021
English medium instruction (EMI) is widespread in European universities. In most such contexts, students and teachers are able to communicate in at least one other language, generally the shared L1. Recent studies in English-speaking countries and postcolonial settings have suggested that attitudes towards L1 use in EMI are changing, and that…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Native Language, Empathy
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Cavazos, Alyssa G.; Karaman, Mehmet Akif – Language Awareness, 2023
Current scholarship on translingual pedagogies focus on writer's translingual strategies and practices. While scholarship explores translingual assessment practices, there is limited quantitative research on how we can measure students' translingual dispositions. This article examines factor structure of a Translingual Disposition Questionnaire to…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metalinguistics
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Leonet, Oihana; Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk – Language Awareness, 2020
This article focuses on the development of morphological awareness in English as a third language. It analyses how the activation of previous linguistic knowledge can influence morphological awareness. Participants were 104 primary school students who were learning English as a third language and were already fluent in two other languages, Basque…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Metalinguistics
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Martin-Beltrán, Melinda; Guzman, Natalia L.; Chen, Pei-Jie Jenny – Language Awareness, 2017
As linguistic diversity is increasing in schools worldwide, research is needed to examine how to modify teaching and learning contexts in response to emerging multilingual students' different needs. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study examined how teachers used discourse differently to respond to diverse students' needs as they…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teaching Methods, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Fajardo, Guadalupe Ruiz; Torres-Guzmán, María E. – Language Awareness, 2016
This study looks at a case study research on a language awareness workshop in a New York public school with a dual language (Spanish/English) program. A learner-centred lesson, taught in Spanish, focused on basic personal information exchanges for in-service teachers who taught only in English and who had some limited knowledge of Spanish. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Workshops, Spanish
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Felix-Brasdefer, J. Cesar – Language Awareness, 2008
Descriptions of speech act realisations of native and non-native speakers abound in the cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics literature. Yet, what is lacking is an analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the production of speech acts. This study examines the cognitive processes and perceptions of learners of Spanish when refusing…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, Cognitive Processes