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Pupipat, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examined written/formal register based on happilyever-after women's fiction conventional blurbs. In particular, the 80 blurbs were equally divided into two types: the classic and mass-marketed. Biber et al. (2021) was used as the framework to extract features to respond to the two research questions: What were the top written/formal…
Descriptors: Females, Novels, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure
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Colmenero, Kebir; Lasagabaster, David – Language Awareness, 2023
Research on language acquisition has long examined the native/non-native English-speaking teacher (NEST/NNEST) debate, particularly in relation to how teachers are perceived. Despite this body of research, the point of view of the parents has been disregarded, as well as the analysis of crucial variables such as students attending extracurricular…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Dumanig, Francisco Perlas; David, Maya Khemlani; Manan, Syed Abdul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Globalisation has resulted in people from different parts of the world migrating from one country to another in search of better job opportunities. Countries that provide attractive job opportunities are most likely to become the major destinations of migrant workers. In Southeast Asia, Malaysia is one of the preferred destinations of economic…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers
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Beaudrie, Sara M.; Loza, Sergio – Language Awareness, 2023
As Spanish heritage language (SHL) programs grow nationwide, SHL program directors (PD) are tasked with negotiating the intricacies of either building an SHL program from scratch or carving space for a program that, unlike second language (L2) programs, are not institutionalised. Considering the evidence of deeply embedded dominant language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Banister, Chris – ELT Journal, 2023
The inherent coloniality of ELT, as both driver and product of Anglophone political power, poses particular challenges for ELT teachers and learners looking to engage with decolonizing agendas. With only scant evidence of these agendas translating into ELT practice, I explored decolonial options, counter-hegemonic actions, with my undergraduate…
Descriptors: Business English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
English language teaching (ELT) professionals are integral to internationalization and globalization processes universities around the world are pursuing. In doing so, ELT professionals have become complicit with issues that relate to colonialism and imperialism. These issues continue to have a detrimental effect on our societies, keeping the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Carly Steele; Toni Dobinson; Gerard Winkler – TESOL in Context, 2023
Despite the increasing levels of cultural and linguistic diversity represented in Australian classrooms, many universities do not adequately prepare teachers to teach English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D). Moreover, in neoliberal educational regimes, teaching tends to remain steadfastly focused on monolingual conceptions of literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stephanie Kinzie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
The field of language instruction is crucial in Canada, given the number of newcomers seeking to improve their English (or French) language skills after arrival. For those who plan to enter post-secondary education but do not meet required language proficiency scores, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs provide opportunities to strengthen…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tuc C. Chau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current dissertation is to map the relationships between first language (L1), writing quality, and syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical complexity, and fluency (CALF) in second language (L2) writing. CALF are characteristics of language production that have been of significant interest in L2 writing research for the past few…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McDermott, Kelly L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated Reading Recovery teacher understandings about language and early literacy acquisition by applying a constructivist grounded theory design. Participants were Reading Recovery teachers working across three varied districts in Massachusetts (N=33). The purpose of the study was to engage Reading Recovery teachers in surveys,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Grounded Theory
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Illesca, Bella – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay uses storytelling as a mode of inquiry to explore how students with languages other than English and with diasporic experiences and identities negotiate a pathway for themselves in a relentlessly Anglophone environment. I share a story that provides a small window into the everyday work of an English teacher in a large, linguistically…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English Instruction, English Teachers, Standard Spoken Usage
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Al Khattab, Emran R. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
All languages change over time. English has undergone continuous change throughout its three major periods: Old English (roughly from 450 to 1100 AD), Middle English (from 1100 to 1500), and Modern English (from 1500 to the present). Sound is one of the most easily influenced parts of language to be subject to different changes. Sound change is…
Descriptors: Old English, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Phonology
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Mills, Monique T.; Moore, Leslie C.; Chang, Rong; Kim, Somin; Frick, Bethany – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: In this mixed-methods study, we address two aims. First, we examine the impact of language variation on the ratings of children's narrative language. Second, we identify participants' ideologies related to narrative language and language variation. Method: Forty adults listened to and rated six Black second-grade children on the quality…
Descriptors: African American Children, Language Usage, Story Telling, Language Variation
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Nur, Tadjuddin; Lukman; Kaharuddin; Dafirah – TESOL International Journal, 2021
The present research sought to investigate the language attitudes of Betawi Teenagers towards their mother tongue. Language attitudes cover opinions, ideas, and prejudices that speakers have with respect to a language. Research of language attitudes is getting much attention for years in some fields. Due to the importance of the language…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language, Adolescent Attitudes, Indonesian
Elias Shakkour – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In second language acquisition, it is well known that an early age of onset and an extensive amount of naturalistic input are key elements promoting successful learning outcomes. What is less well known is what outcomes we can expect when the main source of these elements is full-immersion schooling, defined for the purposes of this study as a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Comparative Analysis
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