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Download full textLuo, Wen-Hsing – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study investigates Taiwanese university students' experience of English use, aims of learning English and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (ELF). The notion of ELF has been researched in the field of English language teaching. However, English teaching practice targeting native-speaker (NS) norms is still prevailing in English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Santipolo, Matteo – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This paper deals with the problems of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) and as a lingua franca (ELF) in the Italian educational system and, in particular, with introducing language variation in the English class. After briefly illustrating how English teaching has changed in the last few decades, an outline is drawn of what happens in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Resnik, Pia; Schallmoser, Christine – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper reports on crossing borders virtually via an e-Tandem scheme and presents the findings of a study, in which students of English from an Austrian university were paired with students of German from the UK and the USA. Drawing on data from 19 in-depth interviews, the study aims to identify links between e-Tandem language learning and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language)
Wyner, Lauren; Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The aims of this paper are to review research literature on the role that the second language (L2) and foreign language (FL) environments actually play in the development of learners' target language (TL) pragmatic ability, and also to speculate as to the extent to which individual factors can offset the advantages that learners may have by being…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Transfer of Training, Learning Motivation
Gomez-Laich, Maria Pia – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Pragmatic competence is an indispensable aspect of language ability in order for second and foreign language (L2/FL) learners to understand and be understood in their interactions with both native and nonnative speakers of the target language. Without a proper understanding of the pragmatic rules in the target language, learners may run the risk…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics, Native Speakers
Kanik, Mehmet – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This paper proposes a prototypic assessment tool for intercultural communicative competence. Because traditional discourse completion tasks (DCTs) focus on illocutionary competence rather than sociolinguistic competence, a modified version of a DCT was created to target sociolinguistic competence. The modified DCT employs speech acts as prompts…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication
Gozdawa-Golebiowski, Romuald – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This paper examines the status of European English (EE) in current linguistic theory, in particular the hotly debated issue of whether or not it is possible to treat EE as an endonormative linguistic variety in its own right. Alternatively, EE may remain a form of English as a foreign language (EFL), and the decision has far-reaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Epistemology
