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Hilliard, Amanda – English Teaching Forum, 2014
This article addresses key issues and considerations for teachers wanting to incorporate spoken grammar activities into their own teaching and also focuses on six common features of spoken grammar, with practical activities and suggestions for teaching them in the language classroom. The hope is that this discussion of spoken grammar and its place…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Castro Huertas, Ivon Aleida; Navarro Parra, Lina Jazmín – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
We report on an action research project aimed at developing oral communication in first-graders, using songs as a strategy for young learners to use and enjoy English. It was developed at a Colombian public school over three months. The teacher-researchers attempted to encourage students using simple and amusing songs to help them learn new…
Descriptors: Role, Singing, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Neff, Peter; Rucynski, John, Jr. – English Teaching Forum, 2013
This article discusses the role of culture in language teaching and provides activities for introducing culture in the classroom, focusing on teaching context and methodology to integrate culture. The authors outline five activities that can be adapted to the language level and interests of students. Instructions for each activity include language…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Role, Class Activities
Sullivan, JoAnn Hammadou – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
Within second language education, concern over teachers' content knowledge has typically manifested itself as concern over the teacher's target language proficiency. In increasing numbers, teacher preparation programs are turning to ACTFL's Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) for measurement of this proficiency and using OPI ratings as high-stakes…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, High Stakes Tests, Linguistic Input, Teacher Educators
Ortega, Irasema; Luft, Julie A.; Wong, Sissy S. – School Science and Mathematics, 2013
Early career science teachers are often assigned to classrooms with high numbers of English language learners (ELLs). For the underprepared early career science teacher, these circumstances are challenging. This study examines the changes in beliefs and practices of an early career science teacher who taught high numbers of ELLs in an urban…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Beginning Teachers, English Language Learners, Urban Schools
Xue, Mo – Qualitative Report, 2013
This qualitative study investigated 14 Chinese international graduate students' lived experiences with group work and the effects of group work on their English communicative competence. The interview results showed that these participants' attitudes towards group work went through changes from initial inadaptation or dislike to later adaptation…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Asians, Student Experience
Roxas, Kevin; Gabriel, Maria L. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This article reports on findings from a year-long research project conducted during the 2012-2013 school year in a PK-12 school district, located in the Mountain West region of the United States, utilizing the Photovoice method. The findings in the project point to the important critical counter-narratives Spanish-speaking immigrant parents…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Spanish Speaking, Immigrants
Saracho, Olivia, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015
Researchers, educators, professional organizations, administrators, parents, and policy makers have increased their involvement in the assessment and evaluation of early childhood education programs. This interest has developed swiftly during the last decades. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Early Childhood Education
Aylward, M. Lynn – Canadian Journal of Education, 2010
This article provides a discourse analysis of interview transcripts generated from 10 experienced Nunavut teachers (five Inuit and five non-Inuit) regarding the role of Inuit languages in Nunavut schooling. Discussion and analysis focus on the motif of bilingual education. Teachers' talk identified discourse models of "academic truths" and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Eskimos, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
Wong, Sissy S.; Ortega, Irasema – Science Teacher, 2015
Teachers often start their careers in schools with large populations of English language learners (ELLs), whose enrollment in U.S. public schools reached some 4.4 million in 2012 (Kena et al. 2014). To serve these ELLs, new science teachers must develop skills to not only teach the content and language of science but also academic English. Proper…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
Zwiep, Susan Gomez; Straits, William J.; Stone, Kristin R.; Beltran, Dolores D.; Furtado, Leena – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2011
This paper explores one district's attempt to implement a blended science and English Language Development (ELD) elementary program, designed to provide English language learners opportunities to develop proficiency in English through participation in inquiry-based science. This process resulted in blended program that utilized a combined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Science Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Essien, Anthony A. – Perspectives in Education, 2010
This paper reports on an investigation into what teacher educators consider to be best practices in how to prepare pre-service teachers to effectively deal with the challenges of teaching Mathematics in multilingual contexts, and how what teacher educators consider as best practices inform their own classroom practice. Twelve teacher educators…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Lee, Icy – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2010
In studies of L2 writing, much more attention has been paid to the needs of students learning to write than to teachers learning to teach. In EFL contexts, while much research is geared towards helping learners cope with the challenges of writing in a foreign language, studies on EFL writing teacher education are few and far between. We have…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Classroom Research, Foreign Countries, Writing Teachers
de Segovia, Lakhana Prapaisit; Hardison, Debra M. – ELT Journal, 2009
The National Education Act of 1999 in Thailand mandated a transition from teacher- to learner-centred instruction for all subjects including English. This shift was associated with the development of communicative ability in English to meet the needs of globalization. The current study investigated the policy behind and implementation of the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Torres-Olave, Blanca Minerva – Comparative Education Review, 2011
This article examines the ways that students and professors imagine the space of higher education and thus shape their relationship to the larger academic community. Data come from a "Lengua Inglesa" program in northern Mexico. The findings reveal that personal and community histories, family networks, media, and migration converge to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, College Students