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Ishamina Athirah Gardiner; Andrew Littlejohn; Sarah Boye – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article examines the use of the repertory grid technique as a method to investigate learner perceptions in language education research. An important issue raised in this article concerns how far a researcher's agenda may be unintentionally imposed onto a research study which is investigating learners' perceptions, and how far the ensuing data…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Research, Research Methodology, Data Interpretation
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Wei Yi; Yanlu Zhong – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This meta-analysis synthesized 35 English studies (130 effect sizes, N = 1,981) that employed online tasks to investigate the processing of multiword sequences (MWSs). We examined (a) to what extent MWSs enjoy a processing advantage over novel word combinations; (b) how such a processing advantage is moderated by statistical regularities (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
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Masood Khoshsaligheh; Azadeh Eriss; Milad Mehdizadkhani; Elnaz Pakar – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Filmmakers increasingly resort to using multiple languages in their work to realistically reflect today's globalised world. However, this multiplicity poses specific challenges in the process of translation for dubbing. This study explores the rendition of Western multilingual films into Persian dubbed versions for the Iranian audience. Films as…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages, Films
Paloma Fernandez-Mira – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Learner corpus research has expanded from focusing primarily on English as a second language (L2) to include languages such as L2 Spanish, reflecting the growing importance of corpus linguistics in second language acquisition (SLA) research. In this context, and because prompts are the means by which learner corpora gather their texts, it has…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Prompting
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2024
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2024) upgrades ED628218 (ERIC) with labels and analysis and brings the work up to date to reflect language change at the speed of the internet, ChatGPT, social discord, and bloody wars. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
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Tsholofelo Angela Thomas; David Maree – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Many African higher education entrants have an African language as a first language, whereas English and Afrikaans are default media of instruction in South African higher education institutions (HEIs). This precludes equivalent chances of academic success for students. Linguistic diversity in HEIs might also influence students' experiences in…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Undergraduate Students, Educational Experience, African Languages
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Iratxe Serna-Bermejo; David Lasagabaster – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Translanguaging has become a very relevant and controversial issue, especially in those contexts where the language teaching tradition encourages the exclusion of the L1 from the L2/FL classroom. Whereas previous research in the Basque Country has mainly focused on the implementation of translanguaging pedagogies, in this study we carried out a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Translation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Beth Ann O'Brien; Artika Arshad; Siew Chin Ng – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Accumulating evidence shows that the home literacy environment (HLE) has a potent and early influence on children's language and literacy development. However, there is a more limited understanding of HLE and its contribution to children's outcomes for simultaneous bilingual children exposed to two languages at home, particularly in…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Bilingualism, Language Skills, Literacy
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Yue Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
English medium instruction (EMI) can become pantomime in the context of higher education, and such non-participation can be shaped and explained by learners' refusing to invest in the English learning practices while performing their learner/speaker/user identities. Taking a Bourdieusian stance on this issue, the study discusses techno-reflective…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
John Martin Metallo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The number of English language learners (ELLs) has increased. The problem is ELLs in a middle Tennessee Charter School network meet challenges in achieving English proficiency, thus limiting academic and social prospects. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if there was a relationship between leader-led…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Faculty Development
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Sara T. Cushing; Haoshan Ren; Yi Tan – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
This paper reports partial results from a larger study of how three different groups of stakeholders--university admissions officers, faculty in graduate programs involved in admissions decisions, and Intensive English Program (IEP) faculty--interpret and use TOEFL iBT® scores in making admissions decisions or preparing students to meet minimum…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Admissions Officers
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Emma R. Britton; Theresa Y. Austin – Language Awareness, 2024
In multilingual instructional spaces, language use can reinforce or ­disrupt gender disparities. This self-study, situated in the context of a university developmental English writing course, examines how an instructor sought to raise L2 learners' critical language awareness, operationalized as consciousness of ways that gender disparity is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khaled A. Alghmadi – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
The study aims to determine whether exposing EFL Saudi undergraduate students to TED talks could effectively contribute to the improvement of their oral language proficiency. To achieve this goal, 32 English as a Foreign Language Saudi undergraduate students were recruited to participate in the study. These students were selected based on their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Amanda K. Kibler Ed.; Aída Walqui Ed.; George C. Bunch Ed.; Christian J. Faltis Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book honors the impactful contributions of Guadalupe Valdés toward equity in multilingual schools and communities. As one of the first language education scholars to examine the vibrant language practices of bilingual users in the US Southwest, her work marked a departure from traditional foreign language approaches and sparked a movement…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Social Justice
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Jack Pun; Xuesong Gao – Language Awareness, 2024
Despite the increasing use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI), teachers who teach at EMI schools encounter significant challenges, such as difficulties in teaching content-subjects in English and students' limited understanding of content presented in English. To examine the extent of these challenges, six early-full and 14 late-partial…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Metalinguistics, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods
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