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Aleksandr Shneyderman – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2024
When a student enrolls in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) for the first time, the student's parents/guardians complete a Home Language Survey. This survey inquires whether a student's first language is a language other than English, whether a student's primary language is one other than English, and whether a language other than English…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Language Proficiency
Edward Karl Schultz; Emily Smith; Stephanie Zamora-Robles – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2024
Evaluating students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (i.e., emergent bilinguals) presents challenges to evaluation teams, as distinguishing between a language disorder and typical second language development is more complex. The skills and knowledge required to do this task often exceed the level of training that evaluators…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Learning Disabilities
Minli Wang; Min Wang – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Previous studies on language production in normal ageing have primarily focused on distinct dimensions of older adults' spoken language performance, such as fluency and complexity. However, little attention has been paid to the complex, interconnected relations between these dimensions. Additionally, older adults have been treated as a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency, Narration
Michal B. Paradowski; Nicole Whitby; Michal Czuba; Piotr Bródka – Language Learning, 2024
Using computational Social Network Analysis (SNA), this longitudinal study investigates the development of the interaction network and its influence on the second language (L2) gains of a complete cohort of 41 U.S. sojourners enrolled in a 3-month intensive study-abroad Arabic program in Jordan. Unlike extant research, our study focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Social Networks, Second Language Learning
Zhihui Zhang; Xiaomeng Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Blended learning combines online and traditional classroom instruction, aiming to optimize educational outcomes. Despite its potential, student engagement with online components remains a significant challenge. Gamification has emerged as a popular solution to bolster engagement, though its effectiveness is contested, with research yielding mixed…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Blended Learning, Learning Motivation, Language Proficiency
Kirsten Calleja Salerno; Ma. Teresa Tuason; Bridget Stanton; Sara Buchanan – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to identify which factors predict psychological distress among international college students attending American universities. International students experience unique stressors, as well as bring with them their own enculturation: culture of origin identity, language, and competence when acculturating. To get a comprehensive…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Students, Stress Variables, Stress Management
Ling Wang; Kendall King – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Governmental language policies in China have varied across recent decades, including the intensive promotion of Mandarin as a language of unification and public championing of regional varieties. Concomitantly, increasing urbanisation, regional migration, and cross-linguistic marriage have led to greater use of Mandarin in private domains. Given…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Parent Attitudes
Anna C-S Chang – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
This study investigated the effects of assisted oral reading on EFL learners' oral reading rates and took into account repetition times, passage features (length and type), and language proficiency. Forty-nine students from a university of technology took part in a 27-week oral reading program. Teaching assistants were assigned to assist…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Oral Reading, Repetition, Language Proficiency
Hassan Saleh Mahdi; Mohammed Ali Mohsen – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
High-Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) has demonstrated effectiveness in second language (L2) acquisition. This study utilizes a meta-analysis to explore the influence of high variability on learning L2 pronunciation and identifies the factors that moderate this impact. The studies were collected using a keyword search in the SCOPUS database.…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Kawita Sarwari – Cogent Education, 2024
Recognizing the importance of students' attitudes in enhancing their academic achievements, this qualitative study aimed to examine the role of second language (L2) willingness to communicate (WTC) in students' English language achievements. The data were collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 11 Afghan English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Nurul Zulaikha Alias; Siti Soraya Lin Abdullah Kamal; Dion Efrijum Ginanto – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
This systematic literature review (SLR) aimed to explore the theoretical frameworks used to comprehend parental involvement in ESL children's learning. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, the review analysed relevant articles published within the last five years (2019-2023) by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Cheryl L. Lolley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research examined the effect of English language proficiency on the academic success, and cultural and social adjustments of Chinese international students pursuing higher education degrees at an HBCU in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The researcher used a qualitative research design for this study to acquire information…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement, Asians
Alex Ho-Cheong Leung; Patrick Chi-Wai Lee – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
As part of a larger project that investigates the issue of identities in Hong Kong, this study anchored on the sociocognitive paradigm in second language acquisition (SLA) explores the potential relationship between one's identity and perceived language accentedness. Our study set in Hong Kong (HK) aims to extend Gatbonton and colleagues' works…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Dialects, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
Pantea Rinnemaa – Social Studies, 2024
This article examines Swedish civics teachers' perspectives on difficulties and opportunities that their second-language (L2) students encounter when reading textbook texts in civics. The study is based on individual semi-structured interviews with teachers in Grade 9. Civics teachers report uncertainty about identifying the source of difficulties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity
Mason A. Wirtz; Simone E. Pfenninger – Applied Linguistics, 2024
This cross-sectional study addresses for the first time the non/linear association between individual learner differences of social, proficiency-related, and socioaffective nature (length of residence [LoR], varietal proficiency, exposure, and socioaffect) and differential outcomes in L2 sociolinguistic repertoires against the backdrop of the…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics