Language learning in the context of study abroad has emerged as a pivotal area of inquiry that combines cross-cultural engagement, sociolinguistic competence and technological innovation. Increasingly ...

Keep your "nose to the grindstone" is the advice we often tell young people is an essential ingredient of learning difficult tasks. A joke captures the matter with the old bromide for success, "Keep ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...