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Translingual Practices for EAL Writing Education in Non-EMI Contexts
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Yachao Sun; Huan Feng – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study explored the impacts of translingual practices on English as an additional language (EAL) writing education in a non-English as a medium of instruction (non-EMI) context at a Chinese university. The findings highlighted the benefits of translingual practices in enhancing students' comprehension, easing cognitive challenges, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Effect of Racialization on EFL Learners' Conceptualizations of the 'Native Speaker' Construct
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Furkan Sevket Kir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which racialisation shapes EFL learners' conceptualizations of the 'native speaker' construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They were assigned to either the…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Vietnamese Accented English: Foreign Accent and Intelligibility Judgement by Listeners of Different Language Backgrounds
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Anh-Thu Thi Nguyen; John C. L. Ingram – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
In the context of English as a global language in which the interaction is not only between native speakers and ESL speakers but also among non-native speakers themselves, there is a need to investigate how well L2 listeners can judge and successfully comprehend accented English produced by other L2 speakers; particularly, how the specific…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation
Exploring the Relationship between EFL College Students' Multimodal Literacy Practices and Identity on Academic Language Use
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Wu, Hsiao-Ping – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The study investigates whether the informal interactive written discourse in instant messaging (IM) is permeating the more formal writing of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) college students, and how students' identities are constructed in terms of English multiliteracies in Taiwan. The study is designed as a qualitative case study. The…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis, Essays, Foreign Countries
The Fluency of Women's Speech.
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Silverman, Ellen-Marie – 1976
In 1922, Otto Jespersen hypothesized that women were more fluent (exhibited less hesitation in oral expression) than men because they had smaller and more central vocabularies, consisting of common words and combinations. Men's vocabularies were considered more extensive due to the inclusion of numerous novel, technical, and infrequently used…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Fluency, Language Research, Language Styles
Variability in Interlanguage Reconsidered: LSP vs. Non-LSP IL Talk.
Cornu, A. M.; Delahaye, M. – ESP Journal, 1987
When analyzing data concerning interlanguage variation and discourse domain, it appears that learners may exhibit more control in their work-domain than in their life-story domain. Data were collected on the Dutch-French interlanguage of two university economics students to investigate the relation of domain to variation in utterances. (Author/…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch, French