To investigate how a high risk for infant neurological impairment affects the quality of infant verbal interactions, and in particular properties of infant-directed speech, spontaneous interactions between 14 mothers and their 4.5-month-old infants at high risk for neurological disorders (7 female) were recorded and acoustically compared with…

The role of anxiety in language education has been well established as a significant factor affecting the success or failure of both teachers and students, including student teachers (STs). While there is a substantial body of research examining student-teacher anxiety (STA), particularly within in-person practicum settings, most of these studies…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, lecturers wore masks which covered facial cues. In two studies, we examined students' ability to comprehend both factually and inferentially presented information when the speaker's facial cues were or were not available and when delivered with or without expressive prosody. While comprehension was not affected by the…

This study utilized time series analysis to investigate the development of and the longitudinal relationship between grit and peer learning among high school students in an EFL classroom over a 36-week period. Based on autocorrelation, partial correlation, and developmental trajectories, we found the dynamic development of the two constructs,…

Language should be inclusive. This implies that it should be accessible for as many people as possible. The concept of easy-to-read language ("Leichte Sprache," LS) developed for this purpose and primarily for people with learning difficulties is beneficial for L2 learners of German as well. Inclusive language also entails the aspect of…

Education is frequently described through the use of the metaphor of 'delivery'. This occurs in policy documents, in curriculum and in school-level materials. As a figure of speech, this metaphor has become naturalised in education discourse. This article shares internationally relevant findings from a small Australian study that uses qualitative…

In today's higher education, universities demand teachers active in research, aligning with their shift toward research-oriented interests. However, academics working at a university with an educational background might encounter obstacles when engaging in research due to the reported tension between teaching and research. This study presents a…

With more and more non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students learning in Hong Kong mainstream classrooms, differentiated instruction has been called for application in Chinese language education to consider the diverse learning needs of all students. However, factors influencing Chinese language teachers' use of differentiated instruction remain…

In response to the increasing challenge of integrating students with migration backgrounds into school systems internationally, various models to support the learning of the language of education have emerged. In Austria, a model of 'German Language Support Classes' (GLSC), introduced in 2018, requires that students be pulled out of regular class…

This study aimed to assess the impact of digital storytelling on learners' receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. For this purpose, 48 participants with intermediate English proficiency were divided into two equal groups: control and experimental. After conducting the pretest, implementing the treatment for the experimental group, and…

This book explores creative uses of social media for informal language learning. It focuses on the underexplored area of how informal language learning adapts to technological innovations in two multimodal media-sharing platforms: TikTok and Instagram. Drawing on ecological perspectives of language learning and spatial understandings of digital…

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are known to present difficulties in storytelling, both in macrostructure (i.e., narrative scheme) and in microstructure (i.e., language complexity). Studies also show that children with DLD can improve their narrative macrostructural performance through specific intervention. While most…

This qualitative study explores how preservice bilingual teachers engage with culturally and linguistically sustaining literacy instruction through coursework and field experiences in a bilingual teacher preparation program. Drawing on narrative reflections from three undergraduate students enrolled in a course titled "Teaching in the…

The current study explores the relationship between metalinguistic awareness -- specifically phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and orthographic knowledge -- and vocabulary knowledge within and across two languages, German (L1) and Arabic (L2), in bilingual children in Germany (N = 58). Phonological awareness emerged as a predictor…

This study explores the impact of Knowledge Management (KM) factors--knowledge acquisition (KAC), knowledge storage (KST), knowledge sharing (KSH), and knowledge application (KAP)--on the acceptance of Engineering Language Massive Open Online Courses (E-LMOOCs) by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners majoring in engineering sciences at…