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Direct linkKata Csizér; Dávid Smid; Anna Zólyomi; Ágnes Albert – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book highlights the roles of several individual difference (ID) variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. It presents the results of a large-scale, mixed-methods investigation which was conducted with secondary school pupils and their teachers in Hungary. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Download full textPlutino, Alessia, Ed.; Borthwick, Kate, Ed.; Corradini, Erika, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The present volume collects papers from InnoConf19, which took place at the University of Southampton on the 28th of June 2019. The theme of the conference was 'Treasuring languages: innovative and creative approaches in HE'. The contributions collected in this peer-reviewed volume aim to reflect on best practice in higher education. They showcase…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
Zheng, Lanqin – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2021
This book highlights the importance of design in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) by proposing data-driven design and assessment. It addresses data-driven design, which focuses on the processing of data and on improving design quality based on analysis results, in three main sections. The first section explains how to design…
Descriptors: Data Use, Instructional Design, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Dawadi, Saraswati – Online Submission, 2020
The author, having drawn examples from her doctoral study, describes how a thematic analysis approach was employed to interpret raw data in her doctoral study which explored the impacts of a high-stakes test on students and parents in Nepal. As the main purpose of this paper is to provide some guidelines for English language teaching (ELT)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Ortega, Lourdes, Ed.; Han, ZhaoHong, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2017
This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The chapters therein range from theoretical expositions to…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
Honey, Margaret A., Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2011
At a time when scientific and technological competence is vital to the nation's future, the weak performance of U.S. students in science reflects the uneven quality of current science education. Although young children come to school with innate curiosity and intuitive ideas about the world around them, science classes rarely tap this potential.…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Science Education, Science Process Skills, Computer Games
Makarova, Veronica – 1997
Class activities and games designed to stimulate student interest and provide feedback in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESOL) pronunciation and phonetics are described. They are intended to address specific challenges of a typical Japanese, ESOL classroom--low student motivation and inadequate feedback--and to supplement conventional language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Dialects
Malandain, Jean-Louis – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
Language teachers are urged to explore, develop, and use the entire range of applications made possible by the computer and to realize that the computer can do almost anything but generate ideas. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Peer reviewedKern, Richard G. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Some of the cognitive and affective factors influencing second language reading comprehension are reviewed, and an instructional technique designed to both guide the reading process and develop comprehension at several levels is described. Teachers are urged to develop process-oriented reading comprehension activities in collaboration with…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Learning Motivation, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedKavett, Hyman – Social Studies, 1976
Provides suggestions for an activity in which students are taught to observe and think in the manner of the archaeologist. Steps to be taken by the teacher before, during, and after a museum visit are specified. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Archaeology, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Cohen, Roger, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
The chapters in "Explorations in Second Language Reading" reveal the importance of reading in the classroom and how instructors can use reading as a bridge to improve learners' other linguistic and interpersonal skills. Most significantly, each author prompts us to rediscover how enjoyable ESOL reading can be and how it can increase learner…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Activity Units, Reading Materials, Reading Ability
Barker, Evelyne – 1983
Research in psycholinguistics and learning theory is reviewed to support the integration of oral and written language skills, and the language experience approach (LEA) is recommended for secondary school second language instruction. This approach incorporates listening, speaking, reading, and writing in purposeful communication. Students use the…
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Language Research, Learning Motivation, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedWieschenberg, Agnes Arvai – College Teaching, 1994
A discussion of mathematics anxiety and learned helplessness in mathematics focuses on student failure and avoidance in college mathematics learning. It explores possible causes and suggests classroom activities to foster students' interest and success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Mathematics
Peer reviewedArmstrong, David G.; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – Social Studies, 1991
Presents classroom activities using banknotes to teach history and social studies. Suggests that students' interest in money can be utilized to teach about geography, national heroes, symbolism, and the image a nation wishes to present to its citizens and the rest of the world. Lists sources for obtaining banknotes and directories to help identify…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, History Instruction, Imagery
Skinner, B. F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Discusses the history and development of teaching machines, invented to restore the important features of personalized instruction as public school class size increased. Examines teaching and learning problems over the past 50 years, including motivation, attention, appreciation, discovery, and creativity in relation to programmed instruction.…
Descriptors: Attention, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Motivation
