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Lingam, Govinda Ishwar – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
This contribution explicitly responds to Agenda No. 5 of the eight challenges posed by the journal editors, which focuses on politics and practice of language learning and teaching. This agenda deserves specific attention in teacher education research because language is a strong indicator of people's identity.
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
Dafouz, Emma; Gray, John – ELT Journal, 2022
The Introduction to this Special Issue on ELT and English-medium education in multilingual university settings provides a picture of the dynamic backdrop to the issues addressed by our contributing writers. We begin with a reflection on the nature of ELT and then move to a discussion of the specific nature of English-medium education in higher…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yachao Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Translingual pedagogies have been proposed and implemented to respond to the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in today's classrooms. However, the findings of translingual pedagogies on English as an additional language (EAL) writing vary from facilitating to undermining teaching and learning. To understand the empirical landscape of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kara, Ömer Tugrul – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
This meta-synthesis study aims to reveal the types of bilingualism in Turkey by interpreting the quantitative data and findings obtained from studies on bilingualism types. In the light of the findings, 28 types of bilingualism and 5 classification criteria have been identified in the theses written on bilingualism in the "Turkish Higher…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Classification
Jingjing Lyu; Yue Huang – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper empirically investigates whether Chinese language learning opportunities abroad have exerted a positive effect on international student mobility (ISM) to China. We utilize both official and self-compiled panel data for 182 countries, spanning a period of 15 years. We use the establishment of Confucius Institutes as an indicator of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Mobility
Liana Regina Iunesch; Robert Pfützner – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2025
German, a West Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European family, is one of the languages of culture and education in Romania. It is spoken by one of 18 recognised minorities in Romania. German has been spoken in Romania throughout history and continues to be spoken today because various German-speaking groups settled in what is now Romania…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
Kenneth Han Chen; John Chung-En Liu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
The challenge posed by academic ghostwriting extends beyond education, affecting moral and meritocratic expectations of learners. Through a sociological lens of the "accounts theory," we analyzed the marketing language of 102 academic ghostwriting websites in English and Chinese to explore their legitimization of services in diverse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Web Sites, Academic Language
Christin Wright-Taylor; Joel Heng Hartse – TESL Canada Journal, 2023
Paul Kei Matsuda has written about the divide between US composition and applied linguistics, which he attributes to an institutionalization of the division of labour between applied linguistics and composition in the early 1960s. Therefore, when language concerns resurfaced in composition in the early 2000s, this division of labour led to a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Research, Foreign Countries
Stratton, James M. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2023
In a recent study, English-speaking L2 learners of German who received explicit instruction made significantly greater improvements in pronunciation and vocabulary than learners who received implicit instruction. Against the backdrop of this work, the present study reports learner preferences and perceptions about implicit and explicit language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preferences, German
Bojsen, Heidi, Ed.; Daryai-Hansen, Petra, Ed.; Holmen, Anne, Ed.; Risager, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Bohdana Labinska; Liliya Morska; Olha Homeniuk – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The article describes the key features of the system of foreign language teacher professional training in Bukovina in 1918 to 1940. Bukovina is an area of present-day Western Ukraine, which in the period under study belonged to Romania. The study has been carried out in the form of an analysis of the components constituting the system of foreign…
Descriptors: Educational History, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Munyaradzi Hwami – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
This critical interpretive study aims to contribute to the scholarship that calls for epistemological recognition and representation of the global South. This call is seen as displacing questions of redistribution. The article utilizes interviews and focus group sessions with Kazakhstani graduate students to explore their experiences and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Áine McAllister – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This paper discusses the experience of four refugee and asylum seekers seeking access to Higher Education. The methodological framework intersects applied ethnopoetic analysis and poetic inquiry, underpinned by Freirean, Translanguaging dialogue. The approach foregrounds participants' voices to address a structural refusal to recognise the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Higher Education, Code Switching (Language)
Escobar-Alméciga, Wilder Yesid – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
Education in Spain and Latin America has been experiencing an ever-increasing use of English as a medium of instruction at all levels and across curricula. Bringing the vast research-literature into a reflective dialogue is paramount to advancing the discipline and to refining English teaching practices. As such, this literature review…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Suwilai Premsrirat, Editor; David Hirsh, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book sheds light on the role of mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB MLE) as a means to enhance educational outcomes, creating a space for non-dominant languages alongside more dominant regional, national and international languages. It brings together a number of underlying concerns including the maintenance of non-dominant…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning