This study explores the academic transition experiences of African international students at a U.S. community college, with a focus on institutional support and associated challenges. Using a qualitative single case study approach, in-depth interviews with eight students revealed three central themes: supportive academic environments, academic and…

The paper applies language management theory to study the interactions of international with local workers (simple management) and language policies (organised management) in 10 Czech video game studios. By longitudinally interviewing foreign game developers from Central-Eastern and Western Europe, as well as North and South America, I identified…

This study examines whether and to what extent video, voice and text-based communication in a synchronous online foreign language classroom affect the university students' willingness to communicate (WTC) and what impact anxiety, online disinhibition and online attention control exert on the level of WTC. Applying a cross-sectional design, a…

Concordancer tools have been used to help students learn aspects of written English by engaging them to access, examine, and analyze language examples in a corpus. Nonetheless, their efficacy remains uncertain when compared to other tools. This study compared a concordancer tool to Grammarly, QuillBot, Google search, online dictionaries, and…

Many educators teach an increasing number of newcomer students such as immigrants, refugees, or asylum-seekers. These students need to acquire a new language as well as content in the language arts and other disciplines. This study explores how to share new ideas in literacy and language teaching and learning with teachers of newcomers while…

As a key component of fluent linguistic production, multi-word sequences called lexical bundles are considered an important distinguishing feature of discourse in different registers, genres, and disciplines. They are also an important aspect of empirically correct and proficient language use in a corpus of natural language because they enable…

The study delves into the innovative strategy of Supported Teaching in School (STS) as a transformative approach to achieving sustainable teacher education in Ghana. This reflection explores the experiences of a student-teacher in the STS program, providing insights into the benefits and challenges faced by the student-teacher, as well as the…

In this paper, we illuminate the powerful shift in one teacher's understanding of "language as a problem" to "language as a resource". Drawing on the concepts of "language as resource" (Ruiz, 1984), "multilingual resources" (French, 2016), and "acts of reciprocity" (Windle et al., 2023), we analyse…

This paper reports on the shifts in understanding experienced by participants in a postgraduate initial teacher education course designed around pedagogical translanguaging as a core theoretical and pedagogical concept. Throughout the semester-long unit, teacher education students engaged with culturally and linguistically responsive teaching…

This article contributes to ongoing discussions regarding the evolution of the basic communication course. The authors detail the multi-year process of redesigning their institution's basic communication course, now centered on multimodal communication, and share insights from its implementation. Emphasizing the need to respond to increased…

This article provides a critical exposition of the epistemological underpinnings of a recent redevelopment of Grounded Theory (GT) methodology, "Constructivist" GT. Although proffered as freed from the "objectivist" tenets of the original version, critical examination exposes the essentialism threaded through its integral…

Aim of present study was to understand changes in speech of clients with regard to certain linguistic features from 5th to 15th session of psychotherapy. First person pronoun use in information structure positions were analyzed in speech of clients. Participants of this study were 11 psychotherapists (clinical psychology master and doctorate…

This article presents a new approach to psychological practice that dwells within the somatic, expressive, imaginal, poetic, narrative, and performative. Embodied Theater Ecology (ETE) as a form of Performative Inquiry is introduced and presented. This approach involves the performative unfolding of unlanguaged stories that lie at the heart of our…

The aim of this investigation was twofold: to explore how policy texts are discursively involved in the formation of subject positions and to help lay bare the part dominant hegemonic discourses play in this process. To this end, a policy document on the Iranian higher education quality supervision, assessment, and assurance system was analyzed…

The title for this article reflects the complex linguistic situation of the Anglophone Caribbean, where multiple English-lexifier Creoles (such as Jamaican Creole [Weh Wi Deh] and Bahamian Creole [Veh Vi Is])--all of which developed in the colonial era out of the contact between English and myriad African languages spoken by contemporary Caribbean…