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Melina Porto; Michalinos Zembylas – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The purpose of this article is to examine the ethical tensions and considerations that arise in the world language classroom from using pedagogies of discomfort. Although pedagogies of discomfort have mostly been seen through a positive lens in the literature for engaging students with difficult issues in the classroom, there are ethical concerns,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethics
Flavia P. D'Souza; Padmanabha C. H. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
Language is crucial for adapting to society, and learning different languages enhances human efficiency. Learning a second language involves acquiring any language in addition to one's native language. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has two meanings, generally, it describes the process of learning a second language, and more specifically, it…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Grammar
Lantolf, James P.; Xi, Jiao – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
The article reviews Digital Language Learning (DLL) research that has used principles and concepts of Sociocultural Theory (SCT) to support the research. We explain several key principles of the theory and shows how they have been misused or used in a superficial way in the DLL research. These include the assumption that SCT is a social rather…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Ricardo Römhild – Human Rights Education Review, 2023
What if the way we (teach and learn to) speak about human rights crises is part of these crises? This conceptual paper sets out to explore the role of a human rights-informed pedagogy of hope in helping learners cultivate languages of hope and advocacy in the context of language education for sustainable development. Recognising that a focus on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advocacy, Civil Rights
Mynard, Jo; Burke, Michael; Hooper, Daniel; Kushida, Bethan; Lyon, Phoebe; Sampson, Ross; Taw, Phillip – Multilingual Matters, 2020
This book provides an in-depth exploration of psychological phenomena affecting language learning within a social learning space. Drawing on the literature from identity in second language learning, communities of practice and learner beliefs, in conjunction with other individual difference factors, it uncovers perceptions and assumptions that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Psychological Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Álvarez Valencia, José Aldemar; Valencia, Andrés – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This article presents critical intercultural dialogue as a necessary curricular, pedagogical, and decolonial practice to engage and value Indigenous students' cultural semiotic resources in higher education. Drawing from social semiotics, critical interculturality, and decolonial theory, the article analyzes Indigenous students' structural…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sánchez-Solarte, Ana Clara – HOW, 2021
This article overviews the major themes and pedagogical devethlopments that have emerged via the academic endeavors of practitioners and researchers in the last 25 years, while also touching on how my work adheres to these developments. The document starts with a brief historical background on the establishment of HOW as a resource for the…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
Sparks, Richard L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Studies have shown that U.S. learners' proficiency in reading and listening comprehension lags behind their ability to decode words. Recent studies have found that even after 3 years of high school L2 courses, U.S. students fail to develop minimal proficiency in reading comprehension. This paper suggests that while cognitive factors (word decoding…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psychological Patterns, Reading Comprehension
Effrosyni, Bisiri – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Placing young learners at the center of the teaching attention and learning process is considered to be of high importance in the teachers' attempt to help them be motivated to participate in the learning activities (Holderness, 1991, p.19). Towards that goal, young learners' characteristics such as imagination, creativity, curiosity and love for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Alternative Assessment, Learning Processes, Multicultural Education
Caspar, Stephan – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This piece offers a reflection on how language learning and multicultural studies during the pandemic have highlighted the potential to help communities draw parallels with, and face wider issues concerning, minorities within a challenged society. Through storytelling, a novel approach to teaching and learning helps students find their voice and…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Hidalgo Aviles, Hilda; Kasun, G. Sue – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2019
We write from a public university in Mexico's interior, as 2 language professors from countries with fraught, yet intertwined, sets of histories--Mexico and the United States. Having lived in 2 countries with dramatic increases in nationalist policies, we reflect on having lived abroad through the increases in nationalism in our lived experiences.…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cross, Russell – Australian Educational Researcher, 2012
Modern education is often characterized by a tension between learning and creativity (Connery et al. in "Vygotsky and creativity: A cultural-historical approach to play, meaning making, and the arts," 2010). "The Arts"--if attended to at all--is often positioned as a distinct element of the broader curriculum, and separate from teaching and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Second Language Instruction, Psychological Patterns, Integrated Curriculum
Horan, Geraldine – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
This article will discuss why cursing and swearing, as manifestations of emotional language, should be addressed in foreign language learning (FLL). Psycholinguistic and pragmatic studies have argued that cursing and swearing are a central component of an individual's communicative repertoire, fulfilling a variety of functions, including…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics
Lin, Show Mei; Griffith, Priscilla – Reading Improvement, 2014
This article reviews the literature on computer-supported collaborative learning in second language and foreign language writing. While research has been conducted on the effects of online technology in first language reading and writing, this article explores how online technology affects second and foreign language writing. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Murakami, Charlotte; Valvona, Christopher; Broudy, Daniel – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
One problem common to many Oral Communication (OC) classrooms in universities in Japan and other countries is that English major students often lack the impetus to proactively develop their oral language proficiency. In this paper, we present our investigation into whether regular self-, peer-, and teacher-assessment would promote the use of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Language Proficiency
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