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Taoues Hadour Myers – NECTFL Review, 2025
Learning a world language offers many benefits, including positive impacts on cognitive development, memory skills, and problem-solving abilities. However, enrollments in language programs, including French, are declining in American universities. Due to the high cost of college, students and parents may not see French as a lucrative field of…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Zapata, Gabriela C.; Ribota, Alessandra – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2021
This article investigates the incorporation of identity texts grounded in the multiliteracies framework "Learning by Design" to second language (L2) instruction in required Spanish classes at a university in the Southern United States. In particular, it focuses on student work on multimodal identity texts during two academic semesters…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Skyrme, Gillian; Ker, Alastair – Language Teaching, 2020
This article presents selected research on applied linguistics published in New Zealand, following "Language Teaching's" commitment to showcase more broadly local research that would not otherwise be easily accessible to an international audience. It covers research conducted and published in New Zealand from 2013 to 2017, following on…
Descriptors: Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Sign Language, Curriculum Development
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Reagan, Timothy – Educational Foundations, 2022
While there are many difficulties faced by world language educators, both teachers and students of certain languages--languages commonly identified with countries and cultures deemed to be hostile to the United States--often find themselves in uniquely paradoxical situations. This article begins with a brief anecdotal description of the personal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Indo European Languages
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Petrenko, Oksana V.; Andriushchenko, Iana E.; Truba, Hanna M.; Shcherbytska, Vladyslava V.; Syniavska, Lesia I. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The trend towards the development of intercultural communicative competences of students, the use of interactive teaching methods, the changing role of a teacher to a consultant in the teaching process necessitates highlighting the level of perception, knowledge and views of teachers on the intercultural approach in teaching. Based on the study of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Baggett, Hannah Carson – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore five world language teachers' beliefs about their students, their attributions about student enrollment, and their reported teaching practices. Findings represent a continuum of critical practice in that three teachers appeared to espouse deficit thinking and stereotypes about students of color,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes