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Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As calls intensify for language education to provide authentic exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity—an essential condition for preparing learners to navigate an interconnected world—concerns about the declining status of additional language study reveal an important challenge.
Koen Van Gorp
wiley   +1 more source

When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Endeavoring to avoid the pitfalls of being too trusting of regulated entities' compliance claims, regulators sometimes create regulatory systems with elaborate requirements for verification. But as these accountability and verification regimes attempt to circumvent one set of problems, they may inadvertently create others.
Carol A. Heimer
wiley   +1 more source

Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant workers are considered less militant in collective action than locals, partly because they lack social ties in the receiving community. However, in China's Pearl River Delta, I find the opposite. Comparing five cases of labor protest from 2014 to 2016 drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and labor activists' records, I ...
Zheng Fu
wiley   +1 more source

The mediating influence of self-efficacy and self-regulation in the relationship between perfectionism and listening anxiety

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
IntroductionThis study investigates the complex relationship between perfectionism and Listening Anxiety (LA) in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), with a focus on the mediating roles of Listening Self-Efficacy (LS) and Self-Regulated ...
Elham Movafagh Ardestani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching Authentic English Pronounciation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Most of the evidence from different research and literature indicates that learners beyond the age of puberty cannot acquire authentic pronunciation of a second language, because the articulation muscles have already lost their flexibility to be able to ...
Rashtchi, Mehrdad
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Exploring foreign language anxiety in higher education: Multifaceted insights into causes, impacts, and coping strategies

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
It is believed that high anxiety in foreign language learning can negatively affect learners' language learning processes and hinder the development of their language skills.
Osman Özdemir, Hümset Seçkin
doaj   +1 more source

EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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