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Youngjoo Seo – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
South Koreans have long perceived their country to be an ethnically homogenous nation despite the rapidly growing inflow of migration workers and international marriage migrants. Such perceptions foster negative attitudes towards people viewed as outsiders. To counter such attitudes, English teachers acknowledge the need to nurture respect for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Anamaria Sagre; Leonardo Pacheco Machado; Yurisan Tordecilla Zumaquè – TESOL Journal, 2024
Significant research has delved into the methodologies and practices teachers use to foster interculturality in the high school and college foreign language curriculum. Yet, little is known about the intercultural teaching practices teachers use in non-elite communities where inequity, lack of access, and inclusion have prevailed, especially…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, COVID-19
Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye; Varghese, Manka; Vitanova, Gergana – CATESOL Journal, 2022
This paper focuses on the concept of intersectionality, which has been used to account for multiple forms of identity and inequality. It argues that intersectionality is a powerful theoretical lens that could be used in analyzing language teachers' identities and their various contexts. It is also deeply connected to an orientation and…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Hassan Syed – TESOL Journal, 2024
In this study the author combines translingualism and raciolinguistic perspectives to analyze the language ideologies and idealized listening/reading subject positions that undergird discourses on English language teaching in Pakistan. Drawing on data from national policy documents, the national curriculum for English, and English proficiency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xi Wu; Paul Tarc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu's social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Working Class, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Xu, Nuo; Sun, Wenyang; Valdez, Veronica E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study draws on the theoretical construct of critical consciousness to explore secondary Chinese DLBE teachers' barriers to developing critical consciousness in the classroom. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, we explore the general struggles Chinese DLBE teachers face in classrooms, focusing on understanding their barriers to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Secondary School Teachers, Barriers, Personal Narratives
Deni, Ann Rosnida; Tumar, Annyza; Houghton, Ann-Marie; Crosling, Glenda Marian – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the adjustment experiences of academically successful international students in living and learning in a private Malaysian higher education institution (HEI). Design/methodology/approach: A total of 53 international students participated in a mixed-method study, where they completed a survey (close- and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Private Colleges, College Students
Buchara, Sabrina; Catalán Soto, Fernanda; Gutiérrez, Estefanía; Galíndez, Daiana – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2023
The aim of this article is to improve and develop students' critical thinking, as well as their linguistics skills, by making use of the CLIL approach. Focusing on relevant topics in today's society, such as the voting system, is an interesting opportunity not only to motivate students' learning, but also to be aware of the world they live in. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mirza Muhammad Zubair Baig – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
The historical Hindi-Urdu language strife intensified after the Indian 'Mutiny' in 1857 played a pivotal role in shaping the two-nation theory, culminating in the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Under English colonial rule, English language education became synonymous with power and job opportunities, creating divisions within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Norley, Kevin – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
Could the standardisation of language narrow disparities in achievement in education amongst people of different social class, and within and across ethnicities and genders, and could this have implications for injustices and inequities in wider society? In analysing socio-economic diversity through the lens of its correlation with language, this…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Correlation, Standard Spoken Usage, Academic Achievement
Liu, Mengyao; Peker, Hilal – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2020
Language variation in a context is influenced by various factors. While there has been some research regarding English language variation, there has not been much research pertaining to Chinese variation (Gao, 2017; Xu, 2015). In the present study, we examined different language usages among different social classes of Tianjin in China in order to…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Language Usage, Language Variation
Veliz, Leonardo – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
The present study reports on the challenges of implementing an approach to critical thinking and critical reading in English language teaching (ELT) in Chile. Participants in this research are in-service teachers of English enrolled in a Master's course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in Chile. In order to develop and construct a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Nguyen, Chinh Duc; Zeichner, Kenneth – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The current study explores how pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language in Vietnam developed their belief about social justice teaching through community field experiences in their teacher education programs. Participants of the study were a cohort of 38 pre-service teachers in a TESOL program in a Vietnamese university. Based on…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lado, Beatriz; Del Valle, José – L2 Journal, 2022
Scholars have advocated for critical approaches to language education (e.g., Del Valle, 2014; Leeman & Serafini, 2016), including those that promote the development of "Critical Language Awareness, CLA" (e.g., Alim, 2010; Leeman, 2018). The goal is to develop students' critical knowledge of the cultural, political, and social…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Misconceptions
Ordem, Eser – Educational Forum, 2023
This study aims to apply critical pedagogy and a participatory approach by including an excluded context, the South African culture, into the curriculum of foreign language classes (EFL) in Turkey because the South African context (SA) has been ignored and excluded from the curriculum of global textbooks and EFL in Turkey. This comparative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Problems