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Language Learning ‘Blocks’: Its Victims and Its Conquerors
Alongside education, there are a myriad of other factors that affect second language learning in South Tyrol, from language learning ‘blocks’ to...
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Teacher-Generated Instructional Materials for Integrating Content and Language Learning: Actualizing the Translanguaging for English Language Learners
Content teachers often struggle to help English language learners (ELLs) demonstrate a more profound understanding and analysis of the subject...
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Usage-Based Second Language Instruction A Context-Driven Multimedia Learning Approach
This book proposes an innovative pedagogical approach, Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, which continues the tradition of challenges to...
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First Language Acquisition
Throughout history, innovative educators have looked to L1 acquisition for inspiration for teaching a second language. A good place to start is...
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A survey and study impact of tweet sentiment analysis via transfer learning in low resource scenarios
Sentiment analysis (SA) is a study area focused on obtaining contextual polarity from the text. Currently, deep learning has obtained outstanding...
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Foreign/Second Language Learning and Teaching in the Southern Caribbean: Future Directions
In this chapter, we discuss innovation as presented in the chapters of the volume, the challenges faced and the takeaways, and the pedagogical...
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Incorporating Informal e-Learning into Foreign Language Teaching Through Collaborative Personalization
Modern education, more often than not, takes the path of personalization of the learning process. This personalization is better achieved through...
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Professional Content-Based Courses for Novice Language Learning
Most language programs at colleges and universities across the United States have their greatest impact through the general education degree...
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Preparing for the Future: What Do High School Students Think About Language Learning?
University language programs can only thrive if faculty understand incoming students’ perceptions of and motivations for learning languages. However,...
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‘Speaking About My Languages Promotes My Language Awareness’: Student Teachers’ Beliefs About Language Awareness and Their Dominant Language Constellations
The aim of this contribution is to gain insight into Spanish language student teachers’ Dominant Language Constellations and their beliefs about...
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On the nature and organisation of morphological categories: verbal aspect through the lens of associative learning
The process by which awareness and/or knowledge of linguistic categories arises from exposure to patterns in data alone, known as emergence, is the...
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The Role of Heritage Culture and Language Learning in Nurturing Gifted Chinese Students in New Zealand Schools
Providing access to a culturally diverse environment is an important aspect of meeting gifted students’ special needs. Although the New Zealand...
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Theorising Language and Dialect Death
This chapter provides a detailed account of the various factors (internal, external, extralinguistic) that condition language variation and change,...
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Introduction: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment—Insights for Evidence-Based Practices
Language assessment is any activity, both inside and outside the classroom, that aims to collect information about language learners’ performance,...
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Implications for Language Learning, Translation, and Language Teaching
The previous chapters demonstrated the importance of lexis in written translation and how formal and semantic lexical errors could have affected the...
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Develo** a Critical Reflection Stance Towards Language Teaching Practice: European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages and Reflective Tasks in Language Education
The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) is used with students undergoing an initial teacher education program at the...
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Learning a typologically unusual reduplication pattern: An artificial language learning study of base-dependent reduplication
We report on an artificial language learning experiment testing the learnability of a typologically rare pattern of reduplication. Our model comes...
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Loops, Sayings, and Tongue-Twisters: How to Enhance Foreign Language Communicative Skills in Online Learning Environments
The hybrid and, in some cases, online-only delivery of foreign language classes that tutors and students experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Perspectives in a Vietnamese Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Course
Under country-wide initiatives such as the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Project (HEEAP), the University of Science and Technology in the...
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Portuguese Language Program Evaluation
This short chapter describes the implementation and results of an ongoing Portuguese program evaluation project at the University of Arizona...