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Phung Dao; Suong Thi Thu Hoang; Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen – Language Awareness, 2024
This study explored teachers' perceptions of synchronous online peer interaction (SOPI) among young learners (YLs), aged 7 to 15. Thirty-eight teachers of diverse L1 backgrounds and teaching experience completed a survey and attended an in-depth interview that explored multiple aspects of SOPI (e.g. benefits, issues, frequency of use, strategies…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Peer Relationship
Emma R. Britton; Theresa Y. Austin – Language Awareness, 2024
In multilingual instructional spaces, language use can reinforce or disrupt gender disparities. This self-study, situated in the context of a university developmental English writing course, examines how an instructor sought to raise L2 learners' critical language awareness, operationalized as consciousness of ways that gender disparity is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tomoko Oyama; Hyun-Sook Kang – Language Awareness, 2024
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chinh Duc Nguyen; Anh T. Ton-Nu – Language Awareness, 2024
The teaching of English as an additional language or dialect (EALD) in Australia has been problematised partly due to teachers' limited understanding of learners' linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The gap could be potentially bridged with the integration of intercultural pragmatics (IP). Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this study…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language)
Alice Chik; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language Awareness, 2024
Many metropolitan cities have undergone rapid demographic changes in recent years, and such changes hasten and widen linguistic diversities. Similar changes are happening in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. These changes are most acutely felt and observed in the classrooms where multiple languages are spoken, despite a prevalent monolingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Education Programs
Karimi, Mohammad N.; Ashkani, Parisa – Language Awareness, 2023
In a knowledge society characterized by an abundance of information sources that present conflicting perspectives on socio-scientific controversies, it is extremely important for readers to construct effective mental models of such controversies. Nevertheless, readers' mental representations of controversial information are assumed to be biased…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Models, Task Analysis
Khezrlou, Sima – Language Awareness, 2023
Although the development of implicit grammatical knowledge is highly desirable, not all grammatical constructions could be learned implicitly. Therefore, one of the ultimate objectives of most English as Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms is to aid learners in developing their (automatic) explicit grammatical knowledge. Using progressively complex…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wangdi, Jigme; Savski, Kristof – Language Awareness, 2023
There is now increased awareness of the need to challenge 'common sense' ideologies of language in education, turning language classrooms into spaces of analysis and liberation. Key to achieving this goal is equipping students with the skills needed to navigate diverse, complex discourses about language (critical thinking), as well as fostering an…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metalinguistics, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes
Chen, Wenting – Language Awareness, 2023
While previous research has identified misalignment of L2 teachers' beliefs and practices on written corrective feedback (WCF), much remains to be known about whether and how writing teachers' beliefs may vary across contexts and evolve over time, as well as the extent to which their beliefs are manifested in their practice. To address this issue,…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lee, Andrew H.; Lyster, Roy – Language Awareness, 2023
The present study investigated the effects of different types of form-focused instruction (FFI) on the acquisition of French grammatical gender attribution. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 140 participants in six intact French as a second language (L2) classes. The classes received six 80-minute instructional sessions consisting of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, French
Chiang, Kwun Man; Chang, Chih-Hao; Lee, Icy – Language Awareness, 2023
This study investigated instruction in vocabulary consolidation strategies over eight months and vocabulary learning among a group of secondary students in Hong Kong. Two vocabulary tests and one vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) questionnaire survey were administered near the end of the school year. The data were analysed using t-tests and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
Makarova, Irina; Duarte, Joana; Huilcán, Marcela I. – Language Awareness, 2023
Increasing migration-induced language diversity is putting pressure on the teaching of regional and minority languages in official bi- or multilingual regions. This study presents an in-depth analysis of teachers' and teacher trainers' beliefs and views towards language awareness and translanguaging approaches as possible ways to enhance pupils'…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning
Sharma, Bal Krishna; Sievers, Mikayla – Language Awareness, 2023
Researchers have made pedagogical suggestions regarding how to incorporate international varieties of English in teacher education, but the amount of research on how novice teachers develop such knowledge and pedagogies and put them into practice is noticeably inadequate. This study presents a two-part case study in order to address this concern.…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Peeters, Ward; Mynard, Jo – Language Awareness, 2023
To assist second language learners in becoming effective, aware, and reflective participants in higher education, support can be provided by integrating structured awareness raising approaches in the language curriculum. Drawing on self-regulation principles, such a structured awareness raising curriculum is most notably sustained by reflective…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
Lim, Jungmin; Tigchelaar, Magda; Polio, Charlene – Language Awareness, 2022
Numerous studies of written language development have shown minimal improvement over the course of an instructional period, yet these solely text-based studies offer little explanation for the lack of changes in writers' language because little is reported about the classroom and the participants. The purpose of this study is to use goal theory to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Writing Skills