Examining the Effects of L2 Self-Guides on Chinese University EFL Learners’ Attitudes Towards Classroom Language Choice

[Special Interest Group for Translanguaging and Inclusive Education]

Dear Members of the SIG,

I would like to take this opportunity to share this new paper, co-authored with Junlong Li, published in “English Teaching & Learning” (SSCI-indexed, 2022 Impact Factor 1.6). This paper presents compelling evidence that Chinese university EFL learners exhibit a notable inclination towards embracing a bi/multilingual Classroom Language Choice (CLC) approach. This approach effectively integrates strategic use of the learners' L1 to enhance content comprehension, while ensuring adequate exposure to the target language, thereby fulfilling students' intentions to learn English as a foreign language.

The study emphasizes the significance of conceptualizing a "multilingual self," which underscores the need to establish adaptable bi/multilingual learning environments. Such environments facilitate the cultivation of motivational coherence between learners' L2 aspirations and the utilization of the classroom language.

Open Access Link [Free Download of the Paper]: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-024-00175-y

Reference:

Li, J. and Tai, K. W. H. 2024. ‘Examining the Effects of L2 Self-Guides on Chinese University EFL Learners’ Attitudes Towards Classroom Language Choice’. English Teaching & Learning. Epub ahead of Print.

Best wishes,

Kevin Tai

Professor Kevin W. H. Tai

BA (Hons 1) (Newcastle, UK), MSc (Oxon), PhD (UCL), FHEA, FRSA

Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy Education 

Co-Director, Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education (CAISE)

Chair, Special Interest Group for Translanguaging and Inclusive Education, CAISE

Chair, Working Group for Research, Academic Unit of Language and Literacy Education

Faculty of Education

The University of Hong Kong

Honorary Research Fellow, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London

Editor, The Language Learning Journal (Routledge)

Assistant Editor, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Routledge)

Executive Guest Editor, Learning and Instruction (Elsevier)

Research Advisor, Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal

Awardee of RGC Early Career Award (ECA) (2023/24), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

Email (HKU): kevi...@hku.hk

Email (UCL): kevin.tai@ucl.ac.uk  

Telephone: (852) 3917 6107

Website: https://web.edu.hku.hk/faculty-academics/kwhtai