{"title":"Second language learners’ engagement with written feedback","authors":"Kailin Liu, N. Storch","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20029.LIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20029.LIU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Studies on feedback given to second language (L2) learners have focused primarily on learners’ response to feedback on language. This study explores how L2 learners in one university EAP class respond to teacher written feedback on all aspects of writing and the factors that may affect their response. Using data from student initial and revised texts, the study first looks at nine learners’ uptake of feedback. Then, adopting a case study approach and using data from retrospective interviews, the study examines how three learners engage with feedback on different dimensions of their writing. Findings show that learners took up almost all feedback suggestions regardless of form or focus. Yet, learners’ engagement with the feedback differed. Using activity theory (AT), we explain the learners’ engagement with the feedback received by reference to the interaction of context and individual-related factors. Our findings highlight the complexity of learner behavior in response to feedback.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44851919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMI-cum-acceleration policy in the contemporary transnational HE market","authors":"Osman Z. Barnawi","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20092.BAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20092.BAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Conceptualizing EMI-cum-acceleration policy in a transnational HE market as the regulation and\u0000 institutionalization of language practices through a chronometrical approach to time for the sake of global economic competition\u0000 and social mobility, this qualitative case study explores the experiences and enactments of such a policy by six engineering\u0000 students at Manar University (a pseudonym) in Saudi Arabia. The data were gathered from analysis of policy documents, individual\u0000 interviews, and a group interview. The findings reveal that the ways in which each student negotiates, resists, and desires such a\u0000 policy suggest that an individual has some temporal resources and autonomy to make sense of “the acceleration experience” within\u0000 the broader “structural forces of acceleration” (Vostal, 2016, p. 117) created at the\u0000 university. It was also found that students are positioned in a double-bind-between the capitalist logic of accumulation and\u0000 competition (speed), and the democratic value of equity in the EMI program.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43673121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing English-medium instruction","authors":"Kari Sahan","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20094.SAH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20094.SAH","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As part of the trend toward internationalization of higher education, governments and universities have introduced\u0000 policies to encourage the expansion of English-medium instruction (EMI). However, top-down policies do not necessarily translate\u0000 to teaching and learning practices. This article provides a case study examining the implementation of undergraduate EMI\u0000 engineering programs at a state university in Turkey to explore the gaps that exist between national- and institutional-level EMI\u0000 policies and classroom-level practices. Data were collected through policy documents, classroom observations, semi-structured\u0000 interviews with teachers, and focus group discussions with students. The findings suggest that the implementation of EMI varies\u0000 across classrooms, even within the same university department. Despite policies that envision one-language-at-a-time instruction,\u0000 the EMI lecturers in this study varied in terms of language preference and teaching practice in their EMI lectures. Implications\u0000 are discussed with respect to policy planning, teacher training, and the expansion of EMI across university contexts.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49303937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The E’s of TNHE and EMI","authors":"Dudley Reynolds","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20111.REY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20111.REY","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Questions asked as part of phenomenographic research are used to critically synthesize findings from the case\u0000 studies in this issue of English-medium instruction (EMI) in transnational higher education (TNHE). With respect to whether EMI in\u0000 TNHE can be considered a phenomenon, it is suggested that the phenomenon is more discursive than empirical. Student and instructor\u0000 perceptions of the phenomenon reveal a critical awareness of the policies that structure the learning environment and agency that\u0000 takes advantage of the policies’ discursive nature to create alternative, multilingual language practices and improve learning. A\u0000 gap between policy and practice that allows for negotiation of the E’s in EMI and TNHE, English and education, is hence called\u0000 for.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47367161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discursive ripple effects in language policy and practice","authors":"Wanyu Amy Ou, M. Gu, Francis M. Hult","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20096.OU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20096.OU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The advancement of English as an instrument for the internationalization of higher education has foregrounded English as an academic lingua franca (EALF), and the case of China is no exception. This study focuses on the process by which EALF has been interpreted and negotiated across university policies and local practices in China’s internationalized higher education. Drawing upon nexus analysis and multisource data, the study traced the discursive (re)location of EALF across different scales of social activity related to multilingualism at an English-medium transnational university in China. Our analysis illustrates the tension between English and other co-existing languages, as presented in educational language policies and as perceived and practiced by multilingual students in the local communicative context. The findings also show an interactive policymaking process through which students and university administrators opened ideological and implementational spaces that linguistically and semiotically pluralized communicative scenarios at the internationalized university in focus.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44774313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problematizing language policy and practice in EMI and transnational higher education","authors":"P. I. Costa, Curtis Green-Eneix, W. Li","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.00036.EDI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.00036.EDI","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48471993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“We have no Chinese classmates”","authors":"Meng Liu, Phan Lê Hà","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20091.LIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20091.LIU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper draws on a small-scale qualitative study with international students enrolled in various English- and\u0000 Chinese-medium instruction programs in Chinese universities. It seeks to explore these students’ educational experiences and their\u0000 perceptions of China and China’s higher education. Our study provides ample evidence about the irrelevance of Chinese language in\u0000 the current policies and practices of Chinese universities regarding internationalization and international students. It also\u0000 counters earlier studies that show how deeply rooted the discourses of native speaker and native-speaking varieties of English are\u0000 in English-medium-instruction programs around the world. All in all, the paper makes theoretical and empirical contributions to\u0000 the emerging literature on international students’ education and academic experiences in China. Through accounts obtained from\u0000 international students of varied backgrounds, the paper also sheds light on nuances of internationalization, medium of\u0000 instruction, and academic mobilities.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47648737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMI and the international branch campus","authors":"S. Hillman, Keith M. Graham, Zohreh R. Eslami","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20093.HIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20093.HIL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Transnational higher education (TNHE), often based on export models of Western-based universities and driven by\u0000 neoliberal market economy agendas, has spread across the globe. One example of TNHE is Qatar’s Education City where six\u0000 prestigious American international branch campuses (IBCs) all administer their degrees through English medium instruction (EMI).\u0000 While there is a burgeoning amount of research investigating and problematizing issues in EMI higher education institutions, IBCs\u0000 are a unique EMI setting due to their heavy reliance on importing faculty, staff, curricula and practices from their home\u0000 campuses. Thus, this study takes an ethnographic case study approach to examine the language planning and policy and linguistic\u0000 landscape at one IBC in Qatar. Drawing on multiple sources of data, the study reveals both the overt and covert language policies\u0000 and ideologies of the institution and its various stakeholders, and the extent to which languages other than English are used and\u0000 accepted.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42572369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community presence, motivation, and identity","authors":"Riccardo Amorati","doi":"10.1075/ARAL.20079.AMO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ARAL.20079.AMO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study examines the extent to which the motivation of university students of Italian in Melbourne (Australia) is influenced by the visibility of a local Italian community. The research relies on data collected by open-ended questions and two Likert items from a survey study (n = 74) as well as in-depth interviews (n = 5). The findings show that learners’ motivation is influenced by their exposure to the L2 language and culture in the local context and by their engagement with a community that forms part of Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse population. Students’ investment in the L2 can be interpreted in light of a new identity dimension, the community-engaged L2 self, which builds upon previous motivational variables (integrative orientation, ideal L2 self), as well as scholarly insights into the link between language, identity, and access to L2 resources. This self-characterizes both heritage and non-heritage learners’ positioning through the L2 in the local socio-context and is expected to hold considerable pedagogical significance.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59317798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}