This article documents the enactment of a scenarios of possibility (SoP) approach to educational change in two initial teacher education programs in French as a second language in Ontario, Canada. After creating and implementing six contextually relevant change initiatives -- referred to as scenarios of possibility -- qualitative data was…

This paper reviews the language skills needed for effective teaching in a French as a second language (FSL) classroom and then presents a comprehensive language proficiency framework that targets these language skills. The framework builds upon a language proficiency framework developed by the Ontario Public School Boards' Association, but it adds…

In increasingly diverse educational settings, arts-based approaches provide a transformative framework for advancing language learning and affirming cultural identity. This article examines how creative practices can be integrated into Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and English as a second language (ESL) classrooms to create…

With the objective of facilitating beginning-level second language (L2) students' development of intercultural awareness through the reading of a graphic novel from a pedagogy of multiliteracies perspective, the present study applies participatory action-research methodology to a university-level A2 Spanish class (Council of Europe, 2001) by…

This article examines how teachers prosodically approach designedly incomplete utterances (DIUs) to elicit co-completions in Mandarin as a second language classrooms. Drawing on interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis, this study identifies 312 DIUs from 18.3 hours of video and audio recordings in 12 university classes in…

Despite the fact that pronunciation is a vital aspect of language learning, previous research has shown that its instruction is limited in the classroom in terms of time and attention, due in part to the time constraints inherent in any curriculum. It then becomes essential for instructors to be strategic about the pronunciation features they…

This qualitative study explores translanguaging beliefs among translingual TESOL teacher educators in connection to broader sociolinguistic realities and ideological frameworks in Qazaqstan's multilingual context. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with ten faculty members of two teacher education programs, the study identifies three…

This article draws upon a 10-month study of core French as a second language (FSL) teachers to explore the professional identities that are produced in their work. Adopting rhizoanalysis and the Deleuzian concept of becoming, this article positions the ways in which these teachers both affect and are affected by the multiple material and…

The present investigation aimed to assess the use of scaffolding strategies by young English as a second language learners who carried out communicative tasks in the context of high-immersive virtual reality (HVR) (Kaplan-Rakowski & Gruber, 2019). More specifically, 24 students enrolled in an intensive program in the province of Quebec,…

Canada is facing a nationwide shortage of teachers of French as a second language. The profession is experiencing significant retention issues, with many teachers leaving the field within the first five years. One of the solutions proposed to address the challenges of teacher retention is for post-secondary institutions to integrate the concept…

Mindfulness has received increased attention recently in educational contexts as a tool helping students mitigate negative emotions, enhance resilience, reduce classroom anxiety, and improve academic performance. Although interventions that teach mindfulness principles have flourished in elementary school and university contexts, limited research…

If oral communication in a second language (L2) is considered a skill to be prioritized, it is also particularly anxiety-provoking for L2 learners. This is why their willingness to communicate, predicted in particular by the emotions experienced, has been the focus of recent studies to examine its evolution and factors likely to interact with it.…

If teachers have previously used technology (e.g., Learning Management Systems, document sharing, video-conferencing, gamification, social media or video-recording), they are likely to use it again. For second language teachers, sudden or planned-for online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in their using new or familiar…

French immersion (FI) programs in Canada have historically served predominantly Canadian-born, English-speaking students and families in their endeavour to learn both of the country's official languages, French and English. However, FI programs are becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse as a result of increased global…

This article shares a participatory action research project about the use of technology, specifically online Indigenous language courses, to learn and teach Indigenous languages. The research collaborators are the NETOLNEW "one mind, one people" Partnership, 7000 Languages, and two Indigenous Partners who have created courses with 7000…