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“It's Not Equality, …It's Not Humanizing:” Content‐Area Teachers' Tensions Between CCR Curriculum and Linguistically Responsive Professional Development

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study explores how secondary content‐area teachers of emergent bilingual (EB) students navigate tensions between linguistically responsive professional development (PD) and the implementation of state‐mandated College and Career Readiness (CCR) curricula in south Texas.
Caryn Calisi, Jerry Romero Jr., Bedrettin Yazan, Jorge Solís, Kristen Lindahl, Michael Cabantac Mauricio, María Leija, Gilberto Lara, Amanda de Oliveira Silva   +8 more
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Plurilingual competence, styles and variation

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011
The paper explores plurilingual competence in respect to language proficiency, language education and pluri- and multilingualism. The notion of communicative competence was introduced by Hymes (1972) as a reaction to chomskyan view of language as an ...
Jyrki Kalliokoski
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Communicative Language Test for Vocational Senior High School

Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2007
This paper is aimed at revealing the role of communicative language test n enabling and measuring student’s English achievement at Vocational School (SMK).
Andri Defrioka
doaj   +1 more source

Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarises the findings of a research project at a British university exploring autistic students studying modern foreign languages (MFL). The project investigates the experiences, motivations, learning strategies and preferences of autistic MFL learners in a Higher Education context to better understand how MFL classroom pedagogy ...
Caroline de Saint‐Seine, Ekaterina Chown, James Youdale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Social Networks During Study Abroad: Acquiring Non-Standard Varieties

Languages
Over the past 20 years, researchers have shown increasing interest in social network analysis to understand second language acquisition (SLA), especially in a study abroad (SA) context.
Rozenn Gautier, Jean-Pierre Chevrot
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Learning from/with New Hampshire's Spanish‐speaking community: Building an internship program for Spanish students

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This article illustrates the implementation of a pilot internship program for Spanish language students with a public‐facing component at a small, predominantly white, private liberal arts college in the northeastern U.S. This project focused on providing students with the possibility to cooperate and collaborate with organizations that ...
Inés Vañó García
wiley   +1 more source

Why Do Back Vowels Shift in Heritage Korean?

Languages
For heritage speakers (HSs), expectations of influence from the community’s dominant language are pervasive. An alternative account for heritage language variability is that HSs are demonstrating sociolinguistic competence: HSs may either initiate or ...
Laura Griffin, Naomi Nagy
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Transitioning From L1 Medium of Instruction to L2 English Medium Instruction: The Role of Translanguaging in Contributing to EFL Students’ Language Learning Motivation

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on English‐Medium‐Instruction (EMI) highlights inadequate support for students transitioning from L1‐medium‐instruction to EMI. To date, little research has focused on how L2 students’ adaptation to an EMI environment influences their L2 learning motivation (LLM).
Kevin W. H. Tai
wiley   +1 more source