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Ollerhead, Sue; Crealy, Isobel; Kirk, Rebecca – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
In multilingual Australian classrooms, one of the biggest challenges for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) learners is mastering the academic language they need to succeed at school. Unlike everyday language, academic language refers to the abstract, complex and challenging language that students need to understand, evaluate, synthesise…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Choi, Julie; Nunan, David – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
In contemporary educational contexts, technology, globalization, and mobility have brought about a blurring of the boundary between language learning and activation in and beyond the classroom. (We prefer the term "activation" to "use" as it has a more dynamic connotation.) This contrasts with the pre-globalized, pre-Internet…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage