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Tomoaki Morikawa; Jayson Parba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has received scholarly attention in recent years, only a few studies have investigated the current diversification efforts in the industry in terms of hiring teachers from various…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Grose, Nicole J.; Sanchez, Jafeth E. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore 11th- and 12th-grade students' expectations in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB DP) at a high school in the Western United States. Study participants included 92 of 94 high school students currently enrolled in the IB DP. Each participant completed a researcher-created, paper survey with…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Grade 11, Grade 12, High School Students
UNICEF, 2022
Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were serious questions about whether children were actually learning. With widespread school closures and other disruptions to the education system brought about by the pandemic, the learning crisis has escalated to new heights. As the pandemic enters its third year, 23 countries -- home to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Attainment
Margolius, Max; Doyle Lynch, Alicia; Hynes, Michelle; Flanagan, Sean; Pufall Jones, Elizabeth – Center for Promise, 2020
"What Drives Learning: Young People's Perspectives on the Importance of Relationships, Belonging, and Agency" is the third publication in the How Learning Happens research series. Together with "All of Who I Am" (see ED606338) and "The State of Young People during COVID-19," (see ED606305), this report places…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship
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Kadiwal, Laila; Durrani, Naureen – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2018
This study explores young students' negotiation of their citizenship identities at the intersection of their class, gender, religious and ethnic identifications in the conflict-affected setting of Pakistan. While much of the global literature on global citizenship education (GCE) primarily takes into account the perspectives of middle-class or…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Babai Shishavan, Homa; Sharifian, Farzad – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The aim of this study was to explore pragmalinguistic strategies employed by a group of Iranian English language learners when making refusals to invitations, requests, offers and suggestions in their first (Persian) and second (English) languages. Data were collected from 86 participants through a Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The social…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning