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Direct linkReem Khamis-Dakwar; Baha Makhoul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study examined the relationship between children's explicit knowledge and awareness of diglossia (EKAD) and learning Arabic in school. Additionally, this study addresses the interrelationships between EKAD and oral comprehension, lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic awareness upon the transition to reading to learn. Thirty typicaly…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Arabic, Gender Differences
Monfared, Abbas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper investigates the attitudes of 246 English teachers from Outer and Expanding Circles (EC and OC) towards the global spread of English and the challenges underpinning international proficiency tests. Using a questionnaire, supplemented with interviews with a smaller group of teachers, this study explores how EC and OC teachers perceive…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language Variation
Ma, Xiuli; Gong, Yang; Gao, Xuesong; Xiang, Yiqing – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This paper reports the results of a review of research articles on the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language published in four leading mainland Chinese journals during the years 2005-2015. The review found that Chinese language researchers are exploring a wide array of issues including language policy and planning, language learning…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Literature Reviews, Journal Articles
Pei, Zhengwei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
The study reported in this article aims to capture the possible changes to the discursive mode of College English (CE) teaching in China by comparing teachers' questions, feedback, and teaching exchanges across two levels of quality courses constructed at different years. Based on transcribed data of 20 videos, it reveals that the general…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Teacher Attitudes, Asians, English (Second Language)
Gan, Zhengdong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Compared with reading, writing and listening, there has been a paucity of empirical data documenting learners' experiences of speaking English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) in different learning contexts in spite of the fact that developing the ability to speak in a second or foreign language is widely…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Reading Skills
Alimi, Modupe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Concerted efforts to characterise Botswana English (BE), though still referred to as "a variety in development", have validated its existence. However, the teaching and assessment of English in the high schools do not seem to have responded to the development of this variety. This paper discusses the viability of using Standard British…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
