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Javad Zare; Khadijeh Aqajani Delavar – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The purpose of the present mixed methods study was to investigate if enhancing Focus on Form (FonF) tasks with data-driven learning (DDL) affects English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' task motivation from the self-determination theory (SDT) perspective. Following a quasi-experimental comparison group pretest-posttest and sequential…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Instructional Materials, Data Use
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Xiang Shen; Chunhui Hao; Jian-E Peng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Technology-mediated communication has become ubiquitous and digital multimodal learning has been increasingly integrated into second language education. Drawing on the concepts of transmediation and interpretant in social semiotic theories, this study explores the potential of digital storytelling (DST) in promoting EFL learners' willingness to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Attitudes, Workshops, Story Telling
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Guangxiang Liu; Yue Zhang; Rui Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Focusing on how a world of possibilities is opened up by language learners themselves, imagination has been regarded as an elusive but indispensable element in second language (L2) education. Drawing on notions of international posture (Yashima 2002), Ideal L2 Self (Dörnyei 2009), and imagined communities (Norton 2001), we theorised imagination…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Congcong Xing; Guanglun Michael Mu; Deborah Henderson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With English hegemony sustained in 'multicultural' Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Universities, Sociology, Resilience (Psychology)
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Kim McDonough; Pavel Trofimovich; Oguzhan Tekin; Masatoshi Sato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Although international students often report satisfaction with their studies and view Canada as being tolerant and multicultural, increasing anti-Asian sentiment triggered by the global pandemic has highlighted the importance of exploring whether international students, especially from South and East Asia, experience discrimination. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Urdu, German
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Qi Zhang; Caitríona Osborne; Lijie Shao; Mei Lin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Although recent years have witnessed increasing interest in learning Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in China and around the world, there seems to be a paucity of research into the medium of instruction in the CFL classroom. This paper describes a study of the practice of MoI choice in the CFL classroom, situated within the framework of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language of Instruction, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Xiao Zhang; Christiane Lütge – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
International students' attitudes towards teachers' codeswitching to the first language (L1) have not been adequately investigated in cross-cultural English-medium instruction (EMI) settings, where teachers and international students do not share the same L1 while they interact in English as a lingua franca (ELF). To fill that void, this study…
Descriptors: Universities, Code Switching (Language), German, English (Second Language)
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Nomura, Kazuyuki; Kataoka, Shin; Mochizuki, Takako – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Fluent speakers of a target language choosing to enrol in beginner-level courses at tertiary institutes could be considered unfair. In this paper, however, based on data obtained from in-depth qualitative interviews with 12 students at a Hong Kong university, we show that fluent speakers of Japanese -- a widely-spoken foreign language in Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Grade Point Average, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Song, Yang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Critical studies on internationalisation of higher education (IHE) have addressed the uneven global geopolitics of knowledge production as reinforced and reproduced through policy making and mechanism of professional organisations. Yet it remains unknown about the dynamics of epistemic exchanges in between agents at multiple dimensions of IHE,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Macaro, Ernesto; Akincioglu, Mustafa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In Turkey, as in much of the rest of the non-Anglophone world, universities are offering an increasing number of courses through English Medium Instruction (EMI) rather than through the medium of the first language (L1) of the majority of the population. Previous research has explored teacher and student perceptions and attitudes towards EMI and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Jin, Lixian; Cortazzi, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being. This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication
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Cai, Chencen; Eisenstein Ebsworth, Miriam – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
We investigate the perceptions of international and American Chinese bilingual pre- and in-service graduate students and language teachers regarding Chinese varieties. The 25 participants were currently enrolled college students or recent graduates majoring in language education or other associated programmes at an urban university in the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Subcultures, Preservice Teachers
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Preece, Siân – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
As universities in the Anglophone world attend to operating on a global stage, linguistic diversity in the sector has intensified. Historically, higher education has adopted language-as-problem orientations to managing linguistic diversity, viewing multilingual repertoires largely as an obstacle. An emerging body of work informed by…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Higher Education, Multilingualism
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Garrett, Peter; Gallego Balsà, Lídia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
European higher education institutions are in general highly committed to internationalisation, seeing it as providing ways into the global education market, as an indicator of academic excellence, and for generating income. In multilingual settings, minority languages are not always given adequate consideration in this process and may be a source…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Higher Education