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Direct linkYingqiu Chen; Louisa Buckingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Older learners of English in ESL contexts are an underserved learner type. Courses typically do not cater to their age-related cognitive and physiological needs and link curriculum content with their typical everyday life activities. This study presents go-along teaching (GAT) as a pedagogical approach for older migrant learners of English by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students
Alastair Henry; Cecilia Thorsen; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In many contexts of multilingualism, language learners can initiate communication in the target language (TL), or a contact language (such as English). Patterns of use emerging from these choices affect TL development. They also vary between individuals. Willingness to communicate (WTC) needs to be investigated in ways that capture these…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Swedish
Alastair Henry; Cecilia Thorsen; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In many contexts of multilingualism, language learners can initiate communication in the target language (TL), or a contact language (such as English). Patterns of use emerging from these choices vary between individuals and affect TL development. Willingness to communicate (WTC) needs to be investigated in ways that capture these variations. So…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Context Effect, Intercultural Communication, Adult Education
Warriner, Doris S. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Ideologies of language (and language learning)--in concert with discourses of individualism and meritocracy that characterize neoliberalism--shape pedagogical policies and practices in ways that are consequential for multilingual students all over the developing and developed world. To investigate how such intersections and influences work in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Well Being
Flynn, Colin J.; Harris, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The sociolinguistic context of Irish, a minority language which is also the first official language of the Republic of Ireland, presents a multitude of issues for consideration in relation to Irish language teaching and learning. This article reports a small-scale (n?=?12) exploratory qualitative study of the range of motivations to be observed…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Learning Motivation, Sociolinguistics, Irish
Fleming, Douglas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This article explores the links between citizenship and race in second-language education through an examination of the ways in which citizenship is linked to English language proficiency within a key Canadian federal adult English as a Second Language assessment document, the "Canadian Language Benchmarks" ("CLB"). It uses…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Second Language Learning, Race, Social Behavior
