Globalization and digitization have reshaped the communication landscape, affecting how and with whom we communicate, and deeply altering the terrain of language and literacy education. As children in urban contexts become socialized into communities of increasing cultural and communicational connectivity, complexity, and convergence (Jenkins, 2004), and funding for specialist second language (...

The current pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study attempts, firstly, to probe the effects of teaching formulaic sequences (FSs) on the second or foreign language (L2)  learners' oral proficiency improvement and secondly, to examine whether teaching FSs through different resources (i.e. animation vs. text-based readings) have any differentially influential effects in augmenting L2  l...

Despite a multiliteracies turn to understanding L2 writing activities, most scholars in China have continued to adopt a cognitive perspective to study Chinese students’ English composing. In this article, we argue that Chinese students have always composed English writing in a multilingual and multimodal fashion. Then, drawing on recent discussions in literacy and composition studies, we propos...

How second language (L2) learning is achieved in the human brain remains one of the fundamental questions of neuroscience and linguistics. Previous neuroimaging studies with bilinguals have consistently shown overlapping cortical organization of the native language (L1) and L2, leading to a prediction that a common neurobiological marker may be responsible for the development of the two languag...

s Gegenwärtig rückt mit zunehmender Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa und weltweit die sog. Zweitalphabetisierung den Mittelpunkt der gesellschaftlichen wissenschaftlichen Debatte. Der vorliegende Beitrag berichtet von einer an TU Braunschweig veranstalteten GAL Research School, bei Multidisziplinarität Zugänge zur Erforschung Lese- Schreibprozessen mehrsprachigen Kontexten demonstriert wurde. Die Sch...

Literacy is not only defines as the ability of reading and write but also it to think critically cultivate information. This study aims analyze literacy experiences L1 L2 English speakers. interviewed two language speakers, J a native speaker, K non-native speaker. The result showed that despite differences in learning L2, some similarities are discovered. interview, both required cognitive ski...

anguage assessment literacy (LAL), mainly defined as knowledge and skills of language assessment, in the last two decades, has started to receive the attention it deserves. As one of the significant findings, based on a plethora of research, many second language (L2) teachers have been indicated to be professionally incompetent in terms of LAL. To investigate the status of LAL among Ira...

Academic literacy in a second language (L2) is competence required by current society academic and professional fields. However, perspectives have changed throughout the years order to comply with requirements of modern society; challenging writing standards. Therefore, an ample inclusive comprehension that informs practices occurring worldwide, where English considered lingua franca for commun...

This study focused on English as L2 in a group of Norwegian dyslexic 12 year olds, compared to an age and gender matched control group. Norwegian school children learn English from the first grades on. The subjects were assessed with a test battery of verbal and written tasks. First, they were given a comprehension task; second, a model sentence task; third, two pragmatic tasks, and fourth, thr...