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Abraham, Stephanie – Reading Teacher, 2023
In this article, I share some of the findings from a community-engaged research project based at Autores Fuertes, a community literacy center, located in urban Philadelphia. Using an engaged, ethnographic case study approach, I conducted observations and interviews at the center, as well as taught translanguaging writing workshops. The findings…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Urban Areas, Literacy Education, Ethnography
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van der Hoek-Snieders, Hanneke E. M.; Rhebergen, Koenraad S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between the age of acquisition (AoA) and sentence length of sentences of the speech recognition (SR) tests for adults and children in Dutch, American English, and Canadian French. Method: The AoA and sentence length of the sentences of four SR tests for adults and children were…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Tests, Contrastive Linguistics, Speech Communication
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Kawar, Khaloob; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Armon-Lotem, Sharon – First Language, 2023
The current study investigates narrative retelling and comprehension among 30 native Arabic-speaking preschool children with a mean age of 5:10. Narrative features of text-complexity (less-complex and more-complex episodic structure) and language variety (Spoken Palestinian Arabic [PA] and Modern Standard Arabic [MSA]) were analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preschool Children, Arabic, Language Variation
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Eric A. Ambele – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
English users naturally exhibit a diverse range of accents when they interact in real-world situations where English serves as a common language for communication among people from various cultural backgrounds. This research, therefore, delves into the attitudes of Thai English major undergraduate students across three programs regarding the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Kevin W. H. Tai; Chiu-Yin Wong – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Despite the extensive research on translanguaging in bi/multilingual classrooms, research on the context of first language (L1) classrooms remains scarce. This study fills the research gap by examining how a translanguaging space was created in an L1 classroom to prepare students to inhabit a world with different linguistic and cultural practices.…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis
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Ziaabadi, Fariba; Karimi, Mohammad N.; Hashemi, Mohammad R. – TESL-EJ, 2023
Despite English teachers' acknowledgement of the plurality of English and the emergence of different varieties of the language, the actual manifestations of this plurality and the associated principles do not seem to be equally embraced in their classroom approach. Against this background, this study investigated Iranian English teachers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Waldron, Chad H.; Willis, Arlette; Tatum, Alfred; Salas, Rachel G.; Coleman, James Joshua; Croom, Marcus; Deroo, Matthew R.; Hikida, Michiko; Machado, Emily; Smith, Patriann; Zaidi, Rahat – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2023
This invited paper highlights the reflections of expert panelists who were spontaneously called upon, graciously accepted, and quickly organized to respond thoughtfully and compellingly to Dr. Arlette Willis' powerful and timely Oscar Causey address at the 2022 Literacy Research Association (LRA) annual conference. In her address, Dr. Willis…
Descriptors: Intellectual Freedom, Critical Literacy, Racial Factors, Critical Race Theory
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Zari Saeedi; Zia Tajeddin; Fereshteh Tadayon – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
This research paper delved into the critical issue of applying English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) assessment principles in local English language tests used for non-native English speakers in Iranian language institutes. A qualitative content analysis was made on 60 local tests, dissecting them into domains, dimensions, and rating rubrics to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Yang Wang; Ismahan Arslan-Ari; Ling Hao; Kyungjin Hwang – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
This case study investigates the reading processes of two bilingual teachers who speak English as a second language and use different first languages--Mandarin Chinese and Korean. The two participants read researcher-selected digital texts in English and in their respective first language, retold the texts, and answered comprehension questions…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Romanization, Written Language, Bilingualism
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Çise Çavusoglu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The current study aims to provide an understanding of how the relationships between standard and non-standard varieties of the Turkish language are perceived by young people of Turkish Cypriot descent within the context of Turkish complementary schools in London. These schools are set up by diasporic communities to fight/reverse language shift and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Turkish, Community Schools, Ethnography
Danielle Jo Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to understand how secondary science students make space for themselves in the classroom. Specifically, this study examines the interplay between classroom structures and students' agentic negotiations while identifying the relationship between students' enacted agency and their authored science identities by drawing from a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Decision Making, Teaching Methods
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Liang Li; Margaret Franken; Shaoqun Wu – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Lexical bundles are recurrent multiword combinations and often function as discourse building blocks. Lexical bundles have been analysed in university students' writing to detect linguistic errors, measure writing competence, and investigate the divergence between L1 and L2 writing. Few studies, however, have focused on the high-stakes genre of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics
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Janna B. Oetting; Tahmineh Maleki – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: Transcription of conjoined independent clauses within language samples varies across professionals. Some transcribe these clauses as two separate utterances, whereas others conjoin them within a single utterance. As an inquiry into equitable practice, we examined rates of conjoined independent clauses produced by children and the impact…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phrase Structure, Measurement, Correlation
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Riskedahl, Diane – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
A wide range of Arabic language variation in form, code choice and orthographic script was wielded by Lebanese political protestors in their graffiti and political placards in Beirut in 2015. That summer, civil protests spilled out into the streets to critique the government inaction over waste management and overall corruption. I will focus on…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Activism, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Chun, Tiew Chia; Abdullah, Melissa Ng Lee Yen – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2022
Purpose: The study explored the barriers and enablers faced by language teachers in teaching 21st century skills at Chinese vernacular schools. It aimed to determine the effects of teachers' attitudes, barriers, and enablers in teaching the skills during language lessons. Method: A mixed-method design was used to achieve the two objectives of this…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Chinese, Barriers, Teaching Methods
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