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Zhansaya Aden; Akbope Akhmet; Akkibat Akzhigitova; Sandugash Sansyzbayeva; Lazzat Tursalieva – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
The research aimed at identifying approaches for building a bilingual individual through written an academic text, using five text types for achieving this goal. The analysis of text types used in this study were glossed, bilingual, dictionary assisted text, authentic, task-based text that reveals valuable insights into their effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
Yang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reduplication, the copying operation employed in natural language morphophonology (e.g., Ilokano pluralization, [kaldin] 'goat'; [kal-kaldin] 'goats'; Hayes and Abad, 1989, p. 357), creates repetition structures within surface word forms. Though reduplication and surface repetitions have been extensively studied, two questions remain unresolved.…
Descriptors: Morphophonemics, Suprasegmentals, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Carla H. Consolini; Kristopher Kyle – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Research has demonstrated that features of lexical and lexicogrammatical use are important predictors of productive second language (L2) proficiency (e.g. Kyle et al. 2018). While some features of lexical use have been studied with L2s other than English (e.g. Tracy-Ventura 2017), multivariate lexical and lexicogrammatical approaches in these L2s…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Spanish, Written Language
Jieqiong Ying; Gang Hong; Wei Ren – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Disagreement is face-threatening but necessary for teachers to correct errors and prompt learning. However, little research has examined how teachers employ disagreement as feedback, especially from a multimodal perspective. This study investigated the differences in linguistic markers (LMs) and accompanying nonverbal behaviours (NVBs) associated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Language Teachers
Ying Guo; Allison Breit; Yanli Xie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: The primary aim of the study was to examine the association between early childhood practitioners' use of language facilitation strategies during interactive book reading of informational texts related to science and the language skills of preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Twenty-four practitioners (12…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Reading, Preschool Children, Language Impairments
Fred Dervin; Kaisa Hahl – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper addresses 'distractions' in the way English language education is discussed and practiced in one of the most debated systems of education in the world today: Finnish primary education. Distractions are considered as 'makers of disturbance' in educational ideologies by the authors. Examining the 2014 National Core Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), National Curriculum
Baya Maraf – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study explores the implications of the current foreign language policy in Algeria by holding evidence from the Algerian government practices and the Algerians' beliefs and views. The study also responds to the call of Maraf and Osam (2022a) to study neoliberalism as a possible outcome of the English wave in Algeria and considers further…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Chit Cheung Matthew Sung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper contributes to our conceptualization of linguistic identities in English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication by analyzing a group of multilingual international students' narrativized accounts of their ELF communication experiences in an international university in Hong Kong. The findings of the study indicate that despite their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Morad Alsahafi – SAGE Open, 2024
Bilingualism has become the norm--not the exception--in today's globalized world. The development of bilingual proficiency in English and other languages is increasing worldwide. Saudi Arabia is one of many countries within the expanding circle of nations in which English (although with no official status) enjoys a special position as the sole…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingualism, Self Concept
Gülin Dagdeviren-Kirmizi; Kayhan Inan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In this study, the relationship between the family language practice and the level of linguistic (in)security of adolescent Gagauz speakers is examined in the context of an endangered language. To this end, a language-use questionnaire and linguistic insecurity scale were administered to 674 participants. The questionnaire included questions…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Simone Graczyk – Online Submission, 2024
The world has become seemingly smaller with the advancements of technologies, instead of taking days to receive a written letter, it takes seconds to get an email. While the connection is obvious there still seems to be a barrier between the majority of the world's population: Language. Though it seems irrelevant in people's small communities, the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Communication Problems, Cultural Differences
Jeonghwa Cho – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates how parametric variation of linguistic properties leads to similarities and differences in language processing across the levels of words, grammatical features, and sentences. For a truly generalizable theory of psycholinguistics, the languages surveyed should not be constrained to English (Garnham, 1994; Norcliffe…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Korean
Hang Wei; Julie E. Boland; Chi Zhang; Anlin Yang; Fang Yuan – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined structural priming during online second language (L2) comprehension. In two self-paced reading experiments, 64 intermediate to advanced Chinese learners of English as a foreign language read coordinated noun phrases where the conjuncts had either the same structure or different structures. Experiment 1 showed that the second…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jiao Du; Xiaowei He; Haopeng Yu – First Language, 2025
We used the elicited production task to explore the production of short and long passives in 15 Mandarin-speaking preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; aged 4;2-5;11) in comparison with 15 Typically Developing Aged-matched (TDA) children (aged 4;3-5;8) and 15 Typically Developing Younger (TDY) children (aged 3;2-4;3). This…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Language Impairments
Ming Chen; Yongbing Liu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This corpus-based study investigates lexical richness in English writing by Chinese senior high school students. Lexical uses in 303 compositions were compared across three grades in terms of lexical sophistication, variation, density and errors. Timed compositions were sampled from Writing Corpus of English Learners, and the sample sizes of three…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, High School Students, Connected Discourse, Foreign Countries