Teachers undergo various cognitive/emotional dissonances along their professional journeys. These dissonances may provide growth points for teachers to develop further if they receive responsive mediation, which guides them toward the higher levels of professional development. Thus, understanding how these dissonances interact with contexts along…

This study investigates the effects of Virtual Reality (VR) on enhancing English vocabulary acquisition among senior learners, focusing on gender differences and user perceptions. A total of 36 participants (24 females, 12 males) aged 65 and above engaged in a five-week VR-based learning program using the 720° VR Shulin Public Market Guiding…

This study examines how technology-enhanced professional development supports transformative teaching and learning among English teachers in higher education institutions in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. Drawing on semistructured interviews, the research explores teachers' experiences with digital tools--including online learning platforms,…

Early language support is crucial for preventing educational inequality and promoting equal opportunities for all children. Phonological awareness and vocabulary are key predictors of both language acquisition and later reading and writing skills. In this single-case study, we investigated the effectiveness of early language support for…

The imposter phenomenon (IP), which is characterized by a sense of incompetence and self-perceived intellectual inferiority due to being unable to acknowledge one's own achievements and abilities despite objective success, is widely recognized as a common experience with detrimental effects in academic settings. Yet, its role in the context of…

While experimental studies have confirmed the value of student talk for incidental L2 vocabulary learning, no studies have evaluated it from the corpus linguistics perspective. Taking the Vietnamese EFL university context as a case, this study used corpus linguistics to investigate the value of student talk for incidental vocabulary learning.…

This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019-2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that…

This paper analyzes Nepal's language education policy from a decolonial perspective, examining how rights-based (neo)liberal ideologies and policies do not necessarily contribute to creating space, either ideological or implementational (Hornberger, 2005), for Indigenous languages in education. Drawing on the theory of "decoloniality"…

Krazy Kat's iconic phrase "Lenguage is that we may mis-unda-stend each udda" (=language is that we may misunderstand each other) to Ignatz has been used and reproduced repeatedly to highlight George Herriman's comics around language and its functions. Such a phrase hides great truths when the interlocutors do not understand words with…

The construct of identity has been widely debated among social theorists, as previous understandings of identity have given way to new conceptualizations that consider the important impact of social contextual and material factors. In light of this, it is clear that our theories of identity construction require heightened consideration of the…

In our contemporary era, the increasing awareness of diverse religious traditions and the direct interaction with individuals from various faiths and cultures have reshaped the way we perceive religious plurality. This study aims to show a connection between Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of alterity and interreligious dialogue, exploring whether…

Instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) inquiry emphasizes the ways in which systematic manipulation of learning conditions may facilitate second language (L2) acquisition. ISLA research has tended to prioritize grammar and vocabulary over pronunciation. However, an increase in classroom-based pronunciation research has begun to address this…

Creativity researchers have recently sought to standardize idea assessment via computational measures of semantic distance: the degree of conceptual dissimilarity between words. The relationship between semantic distance and creativity has traditionally been described using linear models, with the embedded assumption that as semantic distance…

Show-and-Tell is one of many activities recommended for encouraging children's oral language production in classrooms across the world, but there is little research on the topic. From existing studies, teacher facilitation is posited as key to shaping children's oral language production. This paper explores teacher strategies for facilitating…

This theoretical study aims at raising awareness of the existence of lexical false friends (FFs) in English and Arabic as genetically unrelated languages. It also provides a general categorization for FFs from a semantic point of view. A sample of more than fifty FF pairs is examined by contrasting their form, pronunciation and meaning. The…