In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual…
This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization, a classic problem of second language acquisition. It covers a wide range of perspectives …
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to explore how school administrators and teacher leaders understand, plan, and coordinate the foreign language immersion program’s components in K-12 schools in the Southeastern United States. The theory of effective bilingual…
This research examined how six female native Arabic-speaking English as a second language (ESL) graduate students at universities in the United States use cognitive strategies to understand unfamiliar academic vocabulary in texts from their own (either statistics or education), …
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to investigate how non-matriculated Chinese and Saudi students perceive their language learning experiences in an ESL context in a U.S. University. Specifically, it examines how each group perceives differences in language teaching meth…
Discourse markers are used considerably in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, yet few studies examine them in colloquial Arabic. A mixed-method research design adopting a descriptive corpus-based approach is used to better understand the communicative discourse and vagueness functions …
Focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms, this volume calls for a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient & aspiring bilinguals do naturally, & as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual c…
Background: Gender stereotyping of academic domains has long been a subject of debate in the field of education. Researchers believe that gender stereotyping of academic domains is an issue because how an academic subject is perceived by females and males can influence their ach…
Bu araştırmanın genel amacı, Türkiye'deki yabancı dil öğretmen eğitimi programlarını kültürlerarası yaklaşım ve özellikle de erken yaşta kültürlerarası dil öğretiminin yeri açısından inceleyerek yabancı dil öğretim üyelerinin görüşleri ve sınıf içi uygulamaları doğrultusunda mev…
Bu tezde 1949’dan günümüze kadar Çin’de Arapçanın nasıl öğretildiği detaylı bir şekilde incelenmiştir. Birinci bölümde Çin’in tarihi kısaca tanıtılmıştır. Arapçanın Çin’de öğretilmesinde önemli faktör olan İslam’ın Çin’e girme, yayılma ve kökleme süreçleri anlatılmıştır. Bundan …
The term ‘voice’ has been a pivotal metaphor in the fields of composition studies and applied linguistics, and it still has a strong implicit and/or explicit presence in the U.S. classroom. This critical case study examines 6 Saudi graduate student writers’ voices in various U.S…
The majority of scholars’ work on code-switching within the sociolinguistic approach of Arabic has been mainly concentrated on the interaction of the Standard variety with other regional dialects in indigenous communities (Albirini, 2011; Bassiouney, 2006; Saeed, 1997; Soliman, …
Elicited imitation (EI) is a method of assessing oral proficiency in which the examinee listens to a prompt and attempts to repeat it back exactly as it was heard. Research over recent decades has successfully established correlation between EI testing and other oral proficiency…
In journalistic texts in both French and Spanish, the conditional may be used to report an unconfirmed fact, akin to the use of allegedy in English, as in (1) and (2):
Historically, the native speaker (NS) has long been used as a model when it comes to language teaching and learning. However, to date, the discussion of the native speaker teacher (NST) and non-native speaker teacher (NNST) has been primarily limited to English as a second langu…
This dissertation investigates the impact of the CET-4/6 (College English Test Band Four/Six) on College English education at one university in China. It aims to explore the social contexts where CET-4/6 was initiated, used as a de facto language policy, and later dropped at thi…
This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…