Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000381
Yongyan Zheng, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Jim McKinley, Heath Rose, Kari Sahan, Sihan Zhou, Jia Li, Josh Prada, Mingyue Gu, Wanyu Ou, Hoa T. M. Nguyen, Hang T. T. Nguyen, Sue Starfield, Trang Hoang, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Angel M. Y. Lin
{"title":"Researching multilingually to rethink EMI policy and practices","authors":"Yongyan Zheng, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Jim McKinley, Heath Rose, Kari Sahan, Sihan Zhou, Jia Li, Josh Prada, Mingyue Gu, Wanyu Ou, Hoa T. M. Nguyen, Hang T. T. Nguyen, Sue Starfield, Trang Hoang, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Angel M. Y. Lin","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000381","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"6 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135390901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1017/s026144482300040x
Robert O'Dowd
{"title":"Issues of equity and inclusion in Virtual Exchange","authors":"Robert O'Dowd","doi":"10.1017/s026144482300040x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s026144482300040x","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing recognition of the limitations of physical mobility programs has led Foreign Language departments to consider online approaches such as Virtual Exchange (VE) and Blended Mobility as alternatives in international education. These online approaches have the potential to promote inclusion and diversity by providing opportunities for student cohorts who are unable to participate in traditional mobility programs. However, there are still challenges and barriers that need to be addressed, related to foreign language competence, digitalization, and structural gaps in educational systems. In this paper, I review the arguments and the evidence for and against the belief that VE can be a force for greater inclusion in international learning, before going on to explore the issue of equity of engagement in VE projects.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71474887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000344
Peter Skehan
{"title":"Linking second language speaking task performance and language testing","authors":"Peter Skehan","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000344","url":null,"abstract":"This written version of a plenary to the Language Testing Research Colloquium relates research into second language speaking task performance to language testing. A brief review of models of communicative competence and of speaking is provided. Then, two major areas within testing are discussed: the concepts of difficulty and ability for use. The next section covers research into spoken task-based performance, covering effects from task conditions, and from task characteristics. In addition, the measurement of such performance is described and briefly compared with performance rating in testing. Then, the final section relates the task research findings to language testing. A framework for testing spoken performance is outlined, and the general claim made that effective sampling through tests, in order to generalise to real-world performance, can usefully draw on findings from second language task research, as well as the distinction between Conceptualiser and Formulator processes.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"8 42","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000356
{"title":"LTA volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000356","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135568234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000368
{"title":"LTA volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000368","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000137
Ali Fuad Selvi, Bedrettin Yazan, Ahmar Mahboob
{"title":"Research on “native” and “non-native” English-speaking teachers: Past developments, current status, and future directions","authors":"Ali Fuad Selvi, Bedrettin Yazan, Ahmar Mahboob","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000137","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, we have been witnessing the emergence of scholarly interest and professional advocacy efforts centering on systemic, intersectional, fluid, and contextualized inequalities and dynamic hierarchies constructed by essentialized and idealized (non)native speakerhood (speakerism/speakering) and its personal and professional implications for English language teaching (ELT) profession(als). This critical literature review aims to portray, examine, and guide the existing scholarship focusing on a myriad of issues related to ELT professionals traditionally conceptualized as “native” and “non-native” English-speaking teachers. We come to a working conclusion that (non)native speaker/teacherhood is an epistemologically hegemonic, historically colonial, contextually enacted (perceived and/or ascribed), and dynamically experienced socio-professional phenomenon intersecting with other categories of identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, country of origin, gender, religion, sexuality/sexual orientation, social class, schooling, passport/visa status, and physical appearance, among others) in making a priori connections and assertions about individuals as language users and teachers and thereby forming discourses and practices of (in)equity, privilege, marginalization, and discrimination in ELT.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"8 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1017/s026144482300037x
Dustin Crowther, Daniel R. Isbell
{"title":"Second language speech comprehensibility: A research agenda","authors":"Dustin Crowther, Daniel R. Isbell","doi":"10.1017/s026144482300037x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s026144482300037x","url":null,"abstract":"Interest in second language (L2) speech comprehensibility, or listeners’ perceived ease or difficulty of understanding a given utterance, has seen continual growth since Munro and Derwing's (1995) seminal publication in <jats:italic>Language Learning</jats:italic>. While recognizing the body of knowledge that has developed in the 25 plus years since Munro and Derwing's study, in the present paper we look to the future as we consider what an active and informative research agenda might look like for the next 10–15 years. In this regard, we propose four primary areas of future research, including a need to: (1) extend inquiry beyond a primary focus on L2 English speech, (2) explore comprehensibility more thoroughly as a social construct, (3) investigate the effects of more targeted task manipulations, and (4) delve deeper into the effects of comprehensibility-oriented instruction. We additionally discuss the need for more replication in L2 comprehensibility research while also promoting several scholarly disciplines we feel can greatly inform future research, such as task-based literature.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"8 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000332
A. Riazi, M. A. Farsani
{"title":"Mixed-methods research in applied linguistics: Charting the progress through the second decade of the twenty-first century","authors":"A. Riazi, M. A. Farsani","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000332","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This review of recent scholarship (RRS) paper is a follow-up of the first, published in this journal in 2014. For this RRS paper, we identified and included 304 mixed-methods research (MMR) papers published in 20 top-tier applied linguistics (AL) journals. We used a six-pronged quality and transparency framework to review and analyze the MMR studies, drawing on six quality frameworks and transparency discussions in the MMR literature. Using the quality and transparency framework, we report on: (1) which sources AL MMR researchers use to frame their studies, (2) how explicitly they explain the purpose and design structure of the MMR studies, (3) how transparently they describe method features (sampling procedures, data sources, and data analysis), and (4) how they integrate quantitative and qualitative data and analyses and construct meta-inferences. The results of the analyses will be reported and will show how MMR has developed and is represented in the published articles in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The discussion of the results will also highlight the areas future AL MMR researchers need to consider to make their studies and reports more rigorous and transparent.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41847573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1017/S0261444823000289
T. Antes
{"title":"A general service list for French? Teaching the vocabulary that matters","authors":"T. Antes","doi":"10.1017/S0261444823000289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444823000289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"56 1","pages":"570 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46783801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language TeachingPub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1017/s0261444823000290
Jamie Morgan, Megan J. Montee, Francesca Di Silvio
{"title":"Supporting students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE): Effective policies, practices, and programs","authors":"Jamie Morgan, Megan J. Montee, Francesca Di Silvio","doi":"10.1017/s0261444823000290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444823000290","url":null,"abstract":"2. Background To effectively define, identify, and support the growing and diverse number of SLIFE in Massachusetts K-12 schools, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education contracted the Center for Applied Linguistics to conduct a four-year research study on best practices for the education of SLIFE. The research presented in this summary comes from a 2022 literature review and state policy analysis and will be followed by an analysis of Massachusetts’ SLIFE data and qualitative research with Massachusetts SLIFE and the educators who serve them. This research is grounded in an assets-based, culturally-responsive approach that recognizes and promotes the value and integration of students’ bilingualism, social language abilities, and authentic ways of learning into the learning norms and standards of their schools.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"56 1","pages":"562 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49293274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}