Abstracts Archive

Textbooks are critical educational resources to raise critical awareness of environment issues among foreign language students including Chinese learners of German. German has been taught as one of the main foreign languages in China's colleges for decades, but few studies have been conducted on the...

The present study is a mixed-method investigation into foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) of 201 Chinese university students in a non-degree German language program. We employed a questionnaire based on FLE-scale and FLCA-scale to examine the participants'...

This study examines the Hispanic cultural contents in the most popular Spanish as a foreign language textbooks published in China and analyzes how Hispanic cultures are represented and reconstructed by Chinese Spanish as foreign language textbook. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach was employe...

This study presents a learning experiment involving a series of Spanish instruction innovations, with an emphasis on the use of context information to promote the acquisition of Aspect in Spanish. Building on the theoretical framework of the Trinitarian Grammar (Feng & Shi, 2011; Feng, 2014), th...

European language education policy is an important part of language policy and planning research, as it is related to the improvement of national language capacity. Under the framework of the theoretical framework of National Language Capacity, and looking back the major developments, characteristic...

Language and culture are interdependent. Textbooks, given their role as an important source of target language input and culture knowledge in second language teaching, have become a crucial medium for representing cultural values, beliefs, and  stereotypes or misunderstandings. Questions relate...

The concept of translanguaging has been widely used in foreign language classrooms, which refers to a holistic conceptualisation of diverse multilingual and multimodal practices. In this study we explore translanguaging practices and students' and teachers' attitudes towards it in L3 Spanish audio-o...