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Gerald Eliniongoze Kimambo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The main argument of this paper is that the Virtual Linguistic Landscape (VLL) of advertising allows the utilisation of persuasion strategies that transcend the traditional separation of named languages to produce the maximum effect on potential customers. The paper challenges the segregational view of language, which assumes that communication…
Descriptors: Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Social Media, Semiotics
Hristo Kyuchukov; Jill de Villiers; Yanwan Zhu; Iris Zhong – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The paper presents the first comprehensive look at the language development of Romani-speaking children from resource-poor Roma communities in several European countries. 250 participants aged 3- to 10-years participated. The experimental tasks assess knowledge in eight key areas of grammar and morphology, including fast mapping of novel items.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Minority Groups, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Othman Z. Barnawi; Ayman Alzahrani – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Deploying what we term 'Englishization policy distraction' in the internationalization of higher education as both a theoretical and analytical concept, this paper frames and examines how the epistemic violence of internationalization of the HE is bypassed and invisibilized through Englishization policy and English medium education in Saudi…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Planning
Belinda Daniels; Tammy Ratt; Andrea Custer; Andrea Sterzuk; Melanie Griffith Brice; Russell Fayant – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
This paper contributes to ongoing conversations on the contextual differences and considerations between learning an Indigenous language as a member of an Indigenous nation or community and learning an Indigenous language as a non-Indigenous person (Albury, 2015; Berardi-Wiltshire & Bortolotto, 2022; May 2023; O'Toole, 2020; Te Huia, 2020).…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Francesco Vallerossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study investigates the reflections on tempo-aspectual morphology in Italian expressed by undergraduate multilingual learners with previous knowledge of Swedish and a Romance language (N = 22). The reflections of the participants, who were divided into four groups depending on a combination of proficiency in their background Romance language…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi; Anne-Marie Morgan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This study investigated the impact of translanguaging pedagogy on the reading comprehension process of first-year students studying at an English department of a Bangladeshi public university. Through a two-pronged ethnographic research design, data were collected through classroom observation, pedagogical intervention, a semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ben Naismith; Alan Juffs – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Research into vocabulary knowledge often differentiates between breadth (how many words a person knows) and depth (how well the words are known). Both theoretical categories are essential for understanding language learners' lexical development, but how the different aspects of vocabulary knowledge interconnect has not received the same attention…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Frida Unsiah; Nur Mukminatien; Mirjam Anugerahwati; Utari Praba Astuti; Fika Megawati – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The establishment of an English Medium Instruction (EMI) program in any educational level including the university context becomes a controversial issue regarding whether the program should be kept running or not. The present study was conducted to investigate students' voices of EMI based on their different exposure period to English. To obtain…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Ryan E. Henke; Julie Brittain; Kamil U. Deen; Sara Acton – First Language, 2024
This article analyzes the acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East (NE) Cree and pays particular attention to the interaction of frequency effects and language-specific cues in the way children form and employ expectations, the process of anticipating oncoming structure in the ambient language. The passive has long been of interest in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages, Language Acquisition, Native Language
Majid Elahi Shirvan; Esmaeel Saeedy Robat; Abdullah Alamer; Nigel Mantou Lou; Elyas Barabadi – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Second language (L2) learners' beliefs about the nature of language learning, specifically language mindsets, is a recent productive line of L2 research. Researchers argue that language mindsets are key factors for language learning success. However, the association between language mindsets and different language learning outcomes is inconsistent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Outcomes of Education, Language Attitudes
Lyla Parvez; Mahmoud Keshavarzi; Susan Richards; Giovanni M. Di Liberto; Usha Goswami – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a multifaceted disorder. Recently, interest has grown in prosodic aspects of DLD, but most investigations of possible prosodic causes focus on speech perception tasks. Here, we focus on speech production from a speech amplitude envelope (AE) perspective. Perceptual studies have indicated a role for…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Imitation
Greg Woodin; Bodo Winter – Cognitive Science, 2024
There are three main types of number used in modern, industrialized societies. Cardinals count sets (e.g., people, objects) and quantify elements of conventional scales (e.g., money, distance), ordinals index positions in ordered sequences (e.g., years, pages), and nominals serve as unique identifiers (e.g., telephone numbers, player numbers).…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Language Usage, English, North American English
Katherine Rowley; Kearsy Cormier – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
The distinction between natural sign languages and sign-supported speech is a controversial topic and difficult to assess purely on structural terms because of language contact. Here, we consider British Sign Language (BSL) and Sign Supported English (SSE) with reference to Irvine and Gal's (2000. Language ideology and linguistic differentiation.…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Differences, Language Attitudes, Nonverbal Communication
Judith Borràs – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The number of students embarking on a study abroad experience continues to grow steadily. A new setting for study abroad in English has developed recently where students may be studying in an environment where English is used as a lingua franca but is not an official language of the country. This setting is referred to as English as a lingua…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sofie Decock; Sarah Van Hoof; Ellen soens; Hanne Verhaegen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper examines the effect of the recently introduced Dutch non-binary 3rd person pronouns hen and die on tesssxt comprehensibility and text appreciation in the context of newspaper reporting on non-binary persons. Moreover, it presents a first measurement of Flemish people's familiarity with and attitudes towards this pronominal reform in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, LGBTQ People, Form Classes (Languages)