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Seedhouse, Paul; Satar, Müge – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The same L2 speaking performance may be analysed and evaluated in very different ways by different teachers or raters. We present a new, technology-assisted research design which opens up to investigation the trajectories of convergence and divergence between raters. We tracked and recorded what different raters noticed when, whilst grading a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Xiaoshu Xu; Wilson Cheong Hin Hong; Yunfeng Zhang; Haiyan Jiang; Jia Liu – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
This study designed and pilot-tested a learning path in Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) to facilitate learners' Self-regulated Learning. 122 postgraduates who joined an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) course at a comprehensive university in China were evenly divided into two groups. The experimental group used PLEs with…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Self Management, Learning Strategies, Graduate Students
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Xu, Xiaoshu; Zhu, Xiaoshen; Chan, Fai Man – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Personal Learning Environment (PLE) represents a shift of learning paradigm towards learner-centered pedagogy, where users become masters of their own learning. PLEs are best used by learners with Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) abilities. Previous research showed that learners felt lost or socially isolated in PLEs due to their limited SRL…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Individualized Instruction, Pilot Projects, College Students
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Jones, Wayne; McKeown, Kara; Littlewood, Suzanne – ELT Journal, 2022
While there are a variety of reasons for implementing English medium instruction (EMI) at higher-education institutions (HEIs) worldwide, this decision is often made without consideration of its potential impact on student learning. Federal HEIs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are no exception. With English language admission standards at…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)