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Language Learning Challenges for Adult Deaf Migrants in Sweden: Experiences from a Four-Year Project
Ingela Holmström – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Upon arrival in Sweden, adult migrants are required to learn Swedish at the earliest opportunity. This requirement also extends to deaf migrants, regardless of their linguistic and educational backgrounds. This paper presents findings and experiences derived from a project focused on the multilingual situation of deaf migrants in Sweden. Some deaf…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Satoshi Nambu; Mitsuko Ono – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the linguistic landscapes (LL) of two distinct ethnic areas in Shin-Okubo, Japan: Koreatown and Islamic Street. By paying particular attention to the difference in the formation of the two immigrant communities, this study aims to better understand various functions of language on signage and their…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Japanese, Tourism, Islam
Ian Alexander – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study examines the second language academic discourse socialization of two Chinese students who attended British Columbia (Canada) offshore schools in China. After an overview of offshore school structures in China, this article describes the perspectives and experiences of recent offshore school graduates interviewed at a Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Academic Language, Socialization
Liu Yang; Jiraporn Chano – Higher Education Studies, 2025
Blended learning, integrating traditional and online instruction, has emerged as a significant approach to enhancing English proficiency (listening, speaking, reading, writing) among non-native university students. This study conducted a PRISMA 2020-guided systematic review of 52 articles (2020-2024) from Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCOhost, and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Boris Vazquez-Calvo; Steven L. Thorne – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
For fans of popular cultural products, digitization has meant the configuration of affinity spaces online and opportunities for learning in the "digital wilds," including incidental language learning and identity development. Through online multiparty written interaction, we explored how 15 Catalan-speaking gamers organized themselves to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, Translation, Romance Languages
Yang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reduplication, the copying operation employed in natural language morphophonology (e.g., Ilokano pluralization, [kaldin] 'goat'; [kal-kaldin] 'goats'; Hayes and Abad, 1989, p. 357), creates repetition structures within surface word forms. Though reduplication and surface repetitions have been extensively studied, two questions remain unresolved.…
Descriptors: Morphophonemics, Suprasegmentals, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Carla H. Consolini; Kristopher Kyle – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Research has demonstrated that features of lexical and lexicogrammatical use are important predictors of productive second language (L2) proficiency (e.g. Kyle et al. 2018). While some features of lexical use have been studied with L2s other than English (e.g. Tracy-Ventura 2017), multivariate lexical and lexicogrammatical approaches in these L2s…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Spanish, Written Language
Jieqiong Ying; Gang Hong; Wei Ren – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Disagreement is face-threatening but necessary for teachers to correct errors and prompt learning. However, little research has examined how teachers employ disagreement as feedback, especially from a multimodal perspective. This study investigated the differences in linguistic markers (LMs) and accompanying nonverbal behaviours (NVBs) associated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Language Teachers
Ying Guo; Allison Breit; Yanli Xie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: The primary aim of the study was to examine the association between early childhood practitioners' use of language facilitation strategies during interactive book reading of informational texts related to science and the language skills of preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Twenty-four practitioners (12…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Reading, Preschool Children, Language Impairments
Baya Maraf – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study explores the implications of the current foreign language policy in Algeria by holding evidence from the Algerian government practices and the Algerians' beliefs and views. The study also responds to the call of Maraf and Osam (2022a) to study neoliberalism as a possible outcome of the English wave in Algeria and considers further…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Chit Cheung Matthew Sung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper contributes to our conceptualization of linguistic identities in English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication by analyzing a group of multilingual international students' narrativized accounts of their ELF communication experiences in an international university in Hong Kong. The findings of the study indicate that despite their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Morad Alsahafi – SAGE Open, 2024
Bilingualism has become the norm--not the exception--in today's globalized world. The development of bilingual proficiency in English and other languages is increasing worldwide. Saudi Arabia is one of many countries within the expanding circle of nations in which English (although with no official status) enjoys a special position as the sole…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingualism, Self Concept
Gülin Dagdeviren-Kirmizi; Kayhan Inan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In this study, the relationship between the family language practice and the level of linguistic (in)security of adolescent Gagauz speakers is examined in the context of an endangered language. To this end, a language-use questionnaire and linguistic insecurity scale were administered to 674 participants. The questionnaire included questions…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Simone Graczyk – Online Submission, 2024
The world has become seemingly smaller with the advancements of technologies, instead of taking days to receive a written letter, it takes seconds to get an email. While the connection is obvious there still seems to be a barrier between the majority of the world's population: Language. Though it seems irrelevant in people's small communities, the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Communication Problems, Cultural Differences
Jeonghwa Cho – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates how parametric variation of linguistic properties leads to similarities and differences in language processing across the levels of words, grammatical features, and sentences. For a truly generalizable theory of psycholinguistics, the languages surveyed should not be constrained to English (Garnham, 1994; Norcliffe…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Korean