Abstract This study reports on findings of an investigation into Chinese students’ attitudes towards varieties English before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. One hundred and eight college students in mainland China evaluated six speeches by two American speakers, British speakers for social status, attractiveness, language quality. To triangulate data, informal retrospective interview was conducted with a group students, pertaining to their awareness language. Statistical analysis showed...

International teaching assistants face challenges in learning the norms for American universities. In order to address this curve article describes a qualitative study of twenty international that examined how these participants viewed observations as part their professional development. The explored noticing practices who participated an initial interview, followed by classroom observation so ITAs could notice own classroom. After examining ITAs’ events during observations, will conclude...

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English as a second language (ESL) content-based texts are often evaluated for their presentation of sound second-language teaching practices. While such reviews important and valuable, they ignore an examination the race, class, gender issues introduced in texts. A critical perspective on textbook evaluation organized around concept awareness (CLA) is alternative provides appropriate tool ESL teachers administrators to gauge how deeply current consider social students' lives. Two popular...

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Pedagogical translanguaging (TL) represents a contemporary and valuable instructional approach for bi/multilingual students. Researchers have identified the practices their affordances among teachers who share home language with students, dominant used in students' or community, those do not. However, research set United States into bilingual, international preservice (PSTs) has not been forthcoming. This article reports on findings from two PSTs enrolled university practicum teaching...

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While there is much in teacher education which examines the perceptions of preservice to recent introduction ChatGPT. This study teachers' appraisals ChatGPT-produced text. Using a quasi-experimental within-­subject design with 30 participants, Chi-Square tests examined under three conditions. Results indicated that appraisal text was higher when prepared by instructor among students who demonstrated an understanding pedagogical content versus those did not. Appraisals were also sensitive...

The ongoing question of whether negative transfer speech acts increases or decreases with gains in L2 proficiency has brought mixed results, some arguing that (Bu, 2012; Morkus, 2018) and others the opposite (Maeshiba, Yoshinaga, Kasper, & Ross, 2006). In response, this study measured frequency content refusals among 33 beginning 49 intermediate Japanese students English. Twenty-three English-speaking Americans 28 Japanese-speakers served as reference groups Data was collected using a...

In the last 15 years, adult literacy educators have witnessed an important change in how curriculum of workplace programs is structured. The functional approach, a method developing which heavily skills-based, to has dominated research until end 1990s when it fell out favor with researchers who began question its narrow conception and program development practices excluded students from participation (Bailey, 1997; Bell, 2000; Lankshear & Gee, Sticht, 1997). social practice definition...

Despite the recognized role that race and class play in second language acquisition (SLA) instruction, little attention is paid to how evaluate analyze these issues ESL texts. Drawing on examples from two adult texts, this article presents a text evaluation method based upon concept of critical awareness which allows curriculum developers teachers examine class.

In spite of the increasing emphasis on role that racial, social class, and gender issues play in second language acquisition ESL instructional research, little has been written how to identify or analyze such current texts. This article answers call literature. Drawing examples from two popular texts, this presents a method organized around concept critical awareness (CLA) for conducting discourse analysis Implications practice reveal completing text can offer teachers valuable information...

While there is some research into the role of target language community in understanding negative transfer and refusals (e.g., Beebe, Takahashi, Uliss-Weltz,1990; Ikoma & Shimura, 1993; Takahashi 1987; Yamagashira, 2001), most has focused on determining extent to which L2 proficiency influences without close attention status interlocuter or face-saving strategies Félix-Brasdefer, 2004; Chang, 2009, Jiang, 2015). In response this gap research, study reports findings from an investigation...

This paper reports on a qualitative study of 13 bilingual paraprofessionals at university in the USA enrolled second language acquisition class that was part professional development programme. Drawing socio-cultural theory, focused documenting how negotiated academic demands hybrid online class. Data collection conducted 2017 and then again 2019 following completion gathered through classroom assignments, journal, semi-structured interviews. Findings detail ways which conditions necessary...