This study aimed to investigate university students' preferences for and reported instructor practices of written feedback (WF) and how these align with instructors' perceptions and self-reported practices in EFL writing classrooms. An 80-item survey was conducted with 13 instructors and their 210 students at a Moroccan university. The findings…

Using a community translanguaging lens, this paper focuses on the collective translanguaging practices of second-grade students who come from multilingual language backgrounds but were attending a school where English was the mandated language of instruction. The research question addressed is: How did students construct and employ a community…

This study investigated the effectiveness of metacognitive strategy (MS) instruction on listening comprehension and metacognitive awareness among low-proficiency EFL learners in Taiwan. Using a quasi-experimental mixed-methods design, the research involved 95 first-year university students divided into an experimental group (EG) that received MS…

This article examines the determinants of Syrian refugee students' language comprehension difficulties in Lebanon, Türkiye and Australia, three host countries offering refugees different types of legal status (short-term, medium-term and long-term legal settlement). To understand the influence of legal status and its corresponding educational…

With the ever-changing social and linguistic landscape, it is the responsibility of educators to create a learning environment that is respectful of all identities and relevant to the ongoing changes. It is important to recognize the challenges faced by transgender and gender-expansive learners, who often endure harassment leading to diminished…

Counterfactual reasoning is the ability to reason about how the world might have been if past events or states had been different. It is helpful for making sense of past experiences to create future blueprints. Languages like English apply subjunctive forms to directly mark counterfactual premises. In contrast, Chinese does not apply subjunctive…

With critical pedagogy (CP), teachers and students are empowered to disrupt the dominant ideological structures that tend to dehumanise people and impose oppressive historical consciousness upon them as historical subjects. Inspired by CP, over the last three decades critical language pedagogies have been conceptualised to promote social justice…

Background/purpose: Traditional language instruction in Saudi EFL classrooms often limits learners' exposure to authentic language, reducing communicative competence. This review article explores how corpus-based approaches, particularly using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), can bridge this gap and foster pedagogical…

Following the official implementation of soft skills in Moroccan higher education, this study examines the perceptions of Moroccan EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers regarding the challenges associated with developing and implementing soft skills. Using a Grounded Theory methodology, sixteen EFL educators were interviewed, and their…

Intervention studies targeting developmental language disorder (DLD) have been conducted mainly with monolingual English-speaking children and bilingual children learning English. There is a need to explore the application of current methods to more languages. However, adapting an existing intervention to other languages can be a daunting task as…

Within higher education, there is campus-wide discourse increasingly calling for preparing graduates for a globalized world, internationalizing the curriculum, and building international partnerships. Yet, some of the departments -- notably language programs -- are absent in the discussion regarding solutions and allocated funds (Tardy, 2015;…

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is a high-stakes exam where Writing Task 2 significantly influences the overall scores, requiring reliable evaluation. While trained human raters perform this task, concerns about subjectivity and inconsistency have led to growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI)-based assessment…

This conceptual feature generates a framework for utilizing the National Professional Development (NPD) grant to create accessible and equitable professional development (PD) for teachers of multilingual learners (MLs), emphasizing the importance of targeted opportunities for pre-service, novice, and in-service teachers and the need for PD…

Framed by decolonial theory, this paper explores how language and literacy ideologies, including Anglonormativity, or the expectation that children should be proficient in a standardised version of English and are deficient if not, shape language and literacy practices in South African classrooms. While not legitimised, the use of fluid language…

The objective of this study was to identify the impact of implementing English as a medium of instruction (EMI) drawing upon Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology in science for pre-service teachers. Lecturers specialized in modern languages and science education collaborated to design and implement the CLIL-izing EMI…