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Nina Spada – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2024
This volume presents the second edition of the "Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme." Since the book's original publication, COLT has become well established as a research instrument in L2 teaching and learning. This new edition brings COLT into the 21st century by introducing digital versions of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods
Magaly Lavadenz; Elvira G. Armas – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. Based on sociocultural and second language teaching and learning theories, the Observation Protocol for Academic Literacies (OPAL) has a variety of uses across teacher preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lillis, Theresa – Written Communication, 2008
This article critically explores the value of ethnography for enhancing context-sensitive approaches to the study of academic writing. Drawing on data from two longitudinal studies, student writing in the United Kingdom and professional academic writing in Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, and Portugal, the author illustrates the different contributions…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Brown, Cheryl – 1984
Two methods of researching second language learning are described, analyzed, and compared: student diaries giving a first-person account of the second language learning experience; and participant observation, in which the observer is in the language learning situation recording in descriptive terms all possible data about the situation.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Diaries, English (Second Language)
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Chaudron, Craig – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Considers both qualitative and quantitative research approaches on second language learning, with focus on second language classroom research. Concludes that both approaches are relevant to determining the important variables to investigate and the relationships those variables have to second language learning outcomes. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Correlation, Interaction
Holyoke Community Coll., MA. – 2000
The document describes the Changes Project, a participatory action research project conducted by adult learners at five adult literacy and education programs in Western Massachusetts. It is a 3-year project aimed at examining the impact of welfare reform, immigration reform, and the changing workplace on adult learners. The Changes Project is…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language)