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Olusiji Adebola Lasekan – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
Acknowledging the critical role of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in shaping professional and academic success across various fields, the research delves into the nuanced interplay between gender and academic discipline in shaping the ESP needs of higher education students. The investigation investigates the impact of gender and academic…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Anson, Daniel W. J. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper presents data from an Australian high school classroom, investigating how students and their teacher negotiate readings of literature in order to arrive at meanings that are valued by subject English, as well as understood by the students. Subject English acts a vital agent for the transmission of both literacy and literary knowledge in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Language Role, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship
Ohreen, David; Sundararajan, Binod; Trifts, Valerie; Comber, Scott – Journal of Management Education, 2022
The Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky provides important theoretical underpinnings for an alternative to business ethics pedagogy. Although Vygotsky's constructivist approach has been applied to other disciplines, such as cognitive development, moral development, and network analysis and learning, its application to business ethics…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Thinking Skills, Moral Values, Ethics
Harju-Autti, Raisa; Mäkinen, Marita; Rättyä, Kaisu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article explores the language learning experiences of four recently arrived adolescent plurilingual immigrant students who participated in additional structured linguistic support (SLS) in lower secondary education. The SLS was targeted at creating scaffolding for students who were learning both the language of schooling and the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Attitudes, Finno Ugric Languages, Second Language Learning
Prinsloo-Marcus, Loraine; Campbell, Bridget – English in Education, 2022
To write a linguistic autobiography is to explore and reflect on our lived experiences with language. The purpose of this research was to gain insight into students' language experiences through their linguistic autobiographies and to gain a greater understanding of their relationship with and thoughts on language within their social contexts. In…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Autobiographies, Learning Experience, Social Environment
Vorozhbitova, Alexandra A.; Konovalova, Galina M.; Ogneva, Tatiana N.; Chekulaeva, Natalia Y. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
Drawing on the function of Russian as a state language the paper proposes a concept of continuous linguistic rhetorical (LR) education perceived as a means of optimizing language policy in Russian multinational regions. LR education as an innovative pedagogical system shapes a learner's readiness for self-projection as a strong linguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Russian, Corporations, Public Policy
Gross, Zehavit; Rutland, Suzanne D. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2014
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role and place of Hebrew within the Australian Jewish day schools' curriculum and to analyse the cultural factors, which contribute to the challenges Hebrew teachers face. Our findings show that there is a need to locate Modern Hebrew more centrally within the schools' organizational structure. A…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Hall, Graham; Cook, Guy – Language Teaching, 2012
Until recently, the assumption of the language-teaching literature has been that new languages are best taught and learned monolingually, without the use of the students' own language(s). In recent years, however, this monolingual assumption has been increasingly questioned, and a re-evaluation of teaching that relates the language being taught to…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Attitudes, Monolingualism, English (Second Language)
Bouton, Charles P. – 1975
Following a brief review of the history of interest in foreign languages in America, facts to be considered when interpreting falling enrollment statistics, such as a drop in the birth rate, are discussed. It is stressed that foreign language teaching cannot be neglected in a world having improved and extensive communication between people…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes, Language Enrollment

Kinoshita, Akiko; Bowman, Robert L. – NACADA Journal, 1998
International students face a variety of challenges related to language difficulties, immigration issues, and culture shock. Asian students are less likely to seek help for their emotional and interpersonal problems than their American counterparts, due to culturally different help-seeking preferences. A study examined levels of anxiety among…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Anxiety, Communication Problems, Counselor Client Relationship

Hummon, David M. – Journal of Higher Education, 1994
Analysis of 642 slang terms that college students use to characterize peers at Holy Cross College (Massachusetts) and University of California, Davis suggests that undergraduate slang usage is socially complex, the language is reflective of campus and academic life, and that it portrays undergraduate life from the perspective of dominant student…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences
Cohen, Andrew D. – 1975
This book incorporates a general discussion of bilingualism and its relation to sociolinguistic facts with a description of the Redwood City, California, bilingual education project, begun in 1969. Chapter 1 describes the phenomenon of bilingualism, while Chapter 2 deals with the concept of bilingual education. The relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Genesee, Fred – 1978
An investigation was undertaken to assess student attitudes toward learning and using French and their reasons for studying it. It was felt that a more thorough investigation of these issues might help to broaden knowledge of some of the non-educational, social consequences of immersion programs. English-speaking students in sixth and eleventh…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education, French
Fahmy, Jane Jackson; Bilton, Linda – 1990
A survey of 376 first-year Arab university students at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) investigated attitudes about the use of English as a medium for instruction in science and technology. Questionnaires elicited information about student language background, reasons for studying English, patterns of present and future use of English, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Freshmen, English for Science and Technology, English (Second Language)
Jones, Rodney H. – 1995
A study explored the issues of cultural identity and interaction in public health discourse concerning Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Hong Kong's multilingual, multicultural social context. Twenty public service announcements (PSAs) concerning AIDS awareness televised in both English and Cantonese in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1994 were…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Standards, Chinese, Communication Problems