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Soniya Antony; R. Ramnath; Adil Ellikkal – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
This research study provided a basic understanding of pedagogical translanguaging and its importance in a multilingual classroom environment from the perspective of foreign language class students. The qualitative study, employing interpretive phenomenological analysis, investigated students' viewpoints on pedagogical translanguaging in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Context Effect, Classroom Environment, Student Attitudes
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Syed, Hassan; Kuzborska, Irena – Language Learning Journal, 2020
The present study was designed to explore the situational variables and their interaction determining the willingness to communicate (WTC) in English (L2) of six postgraduate business students in a university classroom in Pakistan. While much research has been undertaken to examine trait-like psychological antecedents, only a few studies have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Graduate Students, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Han, Yanmei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study explores how a transient community of Chinese visiting scholars in the US negotiates the language norms and identity in the transnational spaces. Transient communities, being different from diasporic stable communities in terms of flexibility and fluidity of movements, are subject to continuous negotiation of social or language norms.…
Descriptors: Asians, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Professional Identity
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Mann, Aaron; de Bruin, Angela – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Bilingualism is a multi-faceted experience and bilinguals differ in how they use their languages in daily life. Therefore, assessments of bilingualism that consider the role of (social) context are needed when describing bilinguals. In this study, we evaluated how (reliably) the Language and Social Background Questionnaire (LSBQ; Anderson et al.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Payant, Caroline – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
Due to the growing number of plurilingual learners in the world today (Hammarberg, 2010), the present multiple case study examines four plurilingual participants' beliefs toward first language (L1) and second language (L2) mediation in the acquisition of French as a third language (L3). During a 16-week classroom-based study in a French university…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Oganian, Y.; Korn, C. W.; Heekeren, H. R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Recent studies reported reductions of well-established biases in decision making under risk, such as the framing effect, during foreign language (FL) use. These modulations were attributed to the use of FL itself, which putatively entails an increase in emotional distance. A reduced framing effect in this setting, however, might also result from…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
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Topbas, Seyhun – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The potential impact of bilingualism on children's language development has emerged as a crucial concern for Turkey, but so far it has not been addressed from the point of view of language disorders. This short review examines the potential impact of bilingual language development for language impairments in Turkey, with special emphasis on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Turkish