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Walter, Daniel R. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, seeking to bridge the gap between second language acquisition research and language teaching practices. It challenges the traditional divide between conscious and unconscious processes, or explicit and implicit learning, and re-envisions this as a continuum…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Porto, Melina, Ed. – English Language Education, 2022
With a Foreword by Hugh Starkey and Audrey Osler, and Afterwords by Graham Crookes, Hilary Janks and Allan Luke, this book promotes critical language education and illustrates how a critical agenda can be enacted in English language education in real classrooms. It presents four cases located in primary and secondary schools in the province of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Buss, Carol A. – Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1988
The importance of training second language learners in the patterns of occurrence of certain phonemes is discussed, focusing on the use of spelling as a primary predictor of pronunciation. Four different pronunciations of "ng" in English (as in "engaging, singer, changing, dangle") are used to illustrate this principle. A review of pronunciation…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2005
"Focus on Basics" is the quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Health Education, Second Language Learning, Learning Activities
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Rosenbusch, Marcia H., Ed. – Learning Languages: The Journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning, 2000
This document, comprising volume 5, issues 1-3 of Learning Languages: The Journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL), includes the following articles: "Poverty, Race, and Foreign Language Immersion: Predictors of Math and English Language Arts Performance" (Stephen J. Caldas, Nicole Boudreaux); "Meet a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
O Laoire, Muiris, Ed.; Stenson, Nancy, Ed. – Journal of Celtic Language Learning, 2000
This journal is an international review for researchers and teachers of modern Celtic languages. This volume contains seven articles. There are three research articles: "Issues in the Design of Irish Credited Courses" (Thomas W. Ihde); "Learning Irish for Participation in the Irish Language Speech Community outside the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Philpott, Patrick – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Reports on the relationship between the seating patterns of students and their observed attitudes toward class activities in an English-as-a-Second-Language class. Discusses issues of physical territoriality, psycholinguistic territoriality, and active participation by students. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Communication