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Richards, Jack C.; Wilson, Owen – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
The concepts of identity and translanguaging have been a focus of considerable theorizing and research in recent years, and have clarified important dimensions of how people interact in both monolingual and multilingual settings (Barkhuizen, 2016; Creese and Blackledge, 2015; Darvin and Norton, 2018; Otheguy et al., 2018). In this article we would…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teacher Behavior, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Wei, Li; García, Ofelia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Translanguaging has opened up spaces to recognize the dynamic multilingualism of students in classrooms taught in dominant languages, and problematized concepts such as 'additive bilingualism'. This article aims to further explore two issues that remain little understood. First, translanguaging is often seen as simply the acknowledgement or use of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Couper, Graeme – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article reviews questions that non-native (NNEST) and native speaker (NEST) teachers, working in different contexts, have about pronunciation teaching. It draws on theory, research, and practice to answer those questions as far as possible. The data was collected across two projects that investigated teachers' cognitions: their knowledge,…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhao, Ping; Ji, Xiaoli – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
This article provides preliminary validity evidence for the shorter Mandarin version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) under the content aspect, technical quality, substantive and generalizability aspect of Messick's (1995) construct validity framework. The shorter version with 177 Chinese university students in three proficiency levels indicates…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Validity, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Reynolds, Barry Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Lack of knowledge in the conventional usage of collocations in one's respective field of expertise cause Taiwanese students to produce academic writing that is markedly different than more competent writing. This is because Taiwanese students are first and foremost English as a Foreign language (EFL) readers and may have difficulties picking up on…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese
Webb, Stuart Alexander; Chang, Anna Ching-Shyang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
The vocabulary knowledge of 166 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan was measured annually over a five year period using a bilingual version of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) (Nation, 1983, 1990; Schmitt, Schmitt, and Clapham, 2001). The five years of data collection involved English language instruction in high school and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Butzkamm, Wolfgang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
The article addresses the long-standing issue over the role of the mother tongue in the foreign language classroom. In the first part it is argued that the mother tongue lays the cognitive foundations for all subsequent language learning. Double comprehension as the basic requirement for learning to take place is explained. The second part is…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Role, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Karami, Hossein – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
This paper reports an attempt to develop and validate a bilingual Persian version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST). Due to the particular educational system in Iran, there is a dire need for a test that can effectively estimate English learners' vocabulary sizes. Previous research (Nguyen and Nation, 2011) has indicated that bilingual versions of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism
Forman, Ross – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
"Teacher talk", which remains a primary feature of much education, plays a crucial role in EFL contexts where exposure to the L2 is often confined to the language classroom, and where local teachers generally share L1 with their students. The present study explores fresh ways of describing the major pedagogic functions of teacher talk…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
Nguyen, Le Thi Cam; Nation, Paul – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
This article describes the development and validation of a Vietnamese bilingual version of the Vocabulary Size Test--a test which measures written receptive vocabulary size. The test can be used to measure the English vocabulary size of Vietnamese learners of English. A learner's total vocabulary size is calculated by multiplying their test result…
Descriptors: Test Results, Vocabulary, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development