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Ramjattan, Vijay A. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
"Accent work" is a term used to describe the preparatory work that professional actors undergo to attain a speech accent for a role. However, this article presents international teaching assistants (ITAs) as another set of workers who engage in their own type of accent work. Since the accents of ITAs are constructed as…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Kun – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
With the globalization of higher education, the tertiary institutions in Macao have adopted English as the main medium of instruction in order to strengthen their competitiveness, having attracted a large number of Mainland Chinese students. However, little has been known about their experiences and perceptions of English use in Macao, especially…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Universities, College Students, Student Attitudes
Schnieders, Joyce Z.; Moore, Joann L. – ACT, Inc., 2022
To support English learners (ELs), schools across the US have been providing programs and services to ELs, such as English language development instructions and bilingual education (Umansky & Porter, 2020). However, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to education, including the abrupt transition to online learning. Several…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Needs, COVID-19, Pandemics
Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2020
As the number of international students continues to rise at Canadian universities, both university instructors and international students have to learn to adapt and change if they are both to be successful. The changes are greatest in terms of expectations and day-to-day reality. Instructors expect certain things from their students such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Students
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Hillman, Sara – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Recent research on stakeholders' emotions in English-medium instruction (EMI) higher education settings has demonstrated the importance of engaging students with their emotions about the impact of EMI on their lives. This article presents a pedagogical intervention bridging emotions, creativity, and translingual pedagogy with EMI students in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Arabic, Language Attitudes
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Vivien C. W. To – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2024
In Hong Kong, Chinese and English are considered separate mediums of instruction. English immersion is expected for schools that teach with English as the medium of instruction, and direct instruction in Chinese is often used to teach English in Chinese medium schools. Evidently, a great divide persists in the Hong Kong government curriculum. In…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Sino Tibetan Languages, Foreign Countries
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Wawire, Brenda Aromu; Barnes-Story, Adrienne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
When teaching multilingual learners, it is critical for teachers to use instructional strategies that engage and nurture language and biliteracy skills. In this practice-based paper, we address how teachers can utilize translanguaging strategies to recognize and build multilingual practices while offering all learners opportunities to share their…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Native Language
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Reynolds, Dudley – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Questions asked as part of phenomenographic research are used to critically synthesize findings from the case studies in this issue of English-medium instruction (EMI) in transnational higher education (TNHE). With respect to whether EMI in TNHE can be considered a phenomenon, it is suggested that the phenomenon is more discursive than empirical.…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Chew, Kari A. B.; Tennell, Courtney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As Indigenous scholars committed to Indigenous education in Oklahoma, we use a decolonizing approach to consider how the 39 Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma assert educational sovereignty to sustain Indigenous high school students' linguistic and cultural identities. Seeking to promote education models that sustain and revitalize Indigenous…
Descriptors: Public Schools, American Indian Languages, High School Students, American Indian Culture
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Coffey, Brian K. – Intercultural Education, 2019
Nine years of experience teaching economics in the Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan provides knowledge on the nuances and challenges of teaching economics across cultures. Particular categories and difficulties are presented with some examples of how to address them. Conclusions and findings are used to form general guiding principles for teaching…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education
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Pradhan, Uma – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Quality education is increasingly considered essential for human development. However, the mainstream approach to quality as a neutral technology often ignores deeply embedded issues of power relations. This article interrogates the taken-for-granted idea of 'quality education' by exploring the ways in which students navigate the assumption of…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Quality
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Sucharita, V.; Sujatha, K. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
The provision of 25% reservations in private schools under Right to Education Act (RTE) for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups has garnered much debate among researchers as well as the common people in India. The overarching goal of such provision is to promote social inclusion that recognises the diversity of children…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Private Schools, Case Studies, Social Integration
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Hiller, Kristin E. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article describes an innovative approach to introducing translanguaging in an English for academic purposes (EAP) course at a young Sino-US joint-venture university in China. To promote the use of Chinese students' full linguistic and communicative repertoires in an English-medium-of-instruction university, I intentionally incorporated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Van Viegen, Saskia; Zappa-Hollman, Sandra – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
This paper draws draw on conceptualisations of language as heteroglossic to examine whether and how multilingual practices and plurilingual pedagogies are enacted as instructional strategies in two multilingual English-medium universities in western Canada. Multilingual educational contexts have the potential to comprise 'translanguaging spaces'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English
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Cebron, Neva – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents the core aims and objectives of the teaching materials developed within the IEREST (Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers) project, and shows how the innovative approach adopted for these activities can be implemented in the classroom. The IEREST teaching modules are innovative in that the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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