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The Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Two Novice Chinese Early Childhood EFL Teachers
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Xiao-bo Shi; Xiang-Yu Li; Susanna S. Yeung – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Researchers in the field of teacher knowledge have been attempting to delineate pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in different subjects and different levels of education. To date, there is a need to develop a nuanced understanding on the PCK of Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers who teach English as a foreign language (EFL). This study…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Cultural Context, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
Voice for Teaching L2 Writing: Affordance or Constraint?
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Jie Liu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
The mixed-method study firstly drew on regression analysis to check what influential variables were in constructing authorial voice of 45 Chinese MTI students (postgraduates) in an EFL writing course, and then based upon quantitative findings, qualitatively examined how students' EFL writing may resonate with voice teaching in the course with data…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Conceptualizing Digital Multimodal Composing Competence in L2 Classroom: A Qualitative Inquiry
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Emily Di Zhang; Shulin Yu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
While research on digital multimodal composing (DMC) has been skewed towards the instructional design and affordances of DMC for L2 learners, there is a wider need to develop conceptual models of L2 DMC competence, with which L2 learners can successfully design DMC works and respond to the multimodal reading and writing demands of the digital era.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Multiple Literacies