This paper examines the notion of linguistic competence within the context of developing professional standards for foreign language teachers. It focuses on specific language deficiencies recorded during observation of ...

This article pays tribute to foreign language teachers in Trinidad and Tobago who, in most cases, have to teach in very challenging circumstances, yet still manage to display true dedication to their work

This research aimed at describing the impact, either negative or positive, students with cognitive impairments have on students who do not present such difficulties in a classroom where inclusion and the learning of English ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the identity of foreign language (FL) pre-service teachers in two distinct contexts: Brazil and Chile. A multiple case study methodology was used to investigate how foreign language ...

We are entering a new era in which it is an undeniable that foreign language (FL) learning is incredibly important due to globalization. Educational systems are well aware and are committed to improve students’ FL ...

Foreign language (FL) users often come head-to-head with potentially difficult face-threatening situations in the target language (TL) where they have to respond immediately and appropriately. Sociocultural and linguistic ...

This article reports Chilean and Finnish foreign-language (FL) teachers' perceptions of teaching and study realities in their own FL classrooms. Communicative language teaching (CLT) is used as the teaching-studying-learning ...