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Giovanna Arenare; Encarnación Carrasco Perea; Carmen López Ferrero – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article focuses on the effects of a 21-hour Romance Intercomprehension (RIC) module on the plurilingual competence in Romance languages of no prior knowledge and EFL reading comprehension skills of a group of Italian schoolchildren aged 10-11. Data were collected pre- and post-training through a simple language identification and…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mendoza, Anna; Parba, Jayson – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This study took place in a 300-level Filipino class at Hawai'i's state university. Originally, the researchers intended to study how English-Filipino translanguaging, the use of linguistic features of different languages to achieve meaning-making, (1) supports development of academic writing skills in Filipino for heritage learners who have…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), State Colleges, Tagalog, Writing Skills
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Gallego-Balsà, Lídia; Cots, Josep Maria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
The internationalisation of higher education has increased the visibility of linguistic diversity in universities worldwide. However, classroom practices do not necessarily reflect this diversity. This study explores how teachers and students manage plurilingual resources while learning Catalan during study abroad. The analysis applies [Moore, E.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Sung, Ko-Yin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2011
This survey study, which involved 134 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the US universities, intended to address the research question, "Do learners' strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) gender; (2) home language/culture; and (3) number of other foreign languages…
Descriptors: Test Results, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese
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Figueiredo, Sandra; Martins, Margarida Alves; da Silva, Carlos Fernandes – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Heritage language speakers struggle in European classrooms with insufficient material provided for second language (SL) learning and assessment. Considering the amount of instruments and pertinent studies in English SL, immigrant students are better prepared than their peers in Romance language settings. This study investigates how factors such as…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Romance Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Karchner-Ober, Renate – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
This study presents the main findings from a study which investigated Malaysian multilingual students' practical use of three languages with respect to reading, speaking and writing in Bahasa Malaysia (BM), English and German. In addition, two further aspects have been examined: students' motivation to learn a language, and the respondents'…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies