2014, Volume 8, Issue 2
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Middle School Students’ Perceptions Towards Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In 2010, a heated political controversy centered on the Arizona Department of Education's desire to prohibit "heavily accented or ungrammatical teachers” from teaching English Language Learners (Blum & Johnson 2012; Jordan ... -
Pupils Doing Language Policy: Micro-interactional insights from the English as a foreign language classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In this paper, we examine instances of the methods pupils deploy to do language policy in an English as a foreign language classroom in Sweden, where there is a locally practised English-only rule. Although we exemplify ... -
The Effect of Automated Adaptive Corrective Feedback: L2 English questions
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The research on the amount and the types of corrective feedback beneficial for learning a second or foreign language has produced inconsistent results. Interestingly, studying corrective feedback from the perspective of a ... -
What makes a successful spoken request? Using corpus tools to analyse learner language in a UK EAP context
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study analyses the language of successful spoken requests used by Chinese intermediate level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students in Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) at a UK higher education institution. Using ... -
The Challenges of Teaching Reading in Uganda: Curriculum guidelines and language policy viewed from the classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The goal of this paper is to consider the challenges which Ugandan children experience in beginning to learn to read. The paper demonstrates that there are disparities between rural government and rural private school ...
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