As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, schools are both engaging with, and
attempting to prepare students for, ever-greater diversity. Language lies at the heart of this …

This study reports findings of a survey about keigo, Japanese honorifics, and L2‐Japanese
speakers; survey respondents were teachers of Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) …

The literature reveals the difficulty of teaching minority languages in multiethnic and
multilingual regions. Studies about teachers' perceptions when instructing a minority …

This book examines the role of affective variables in the process of learning a minority
language. It presents a comprehensive account of how adult learners' attitude, motivation …

The language teaching landscape in Ireland has changed considerably over the last 30
years as a result of substantial and sustained inward migration into the country during this …

Ideologies on linguistic variation among teachers of the Irish language are the focus of this
article. Participants completed an experiment in which they responded to speech samples …

Aims and objectives: This article reports the ideologies on linguistic variation among a
cohort of new speaker teachers (NSTs) of Irish. It investigates responses to the three main …

Sociolinguistics can help people better understand the use of English in specific social
environments. Still, there have been limited studies on the crucial aspects of teaching and …

Despite English teachers' acknowledgement of the plurality of English and the emergence of
different varieties of the language, the actual manifestations of this plurality and the …

Portuguese language students in the United States typically also speak Spanish, and
Portuguese programs, influenced by ideologies of linguistic purism, ceaselessly battle …