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Pak Hei Chan; Scott Aubrey – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Dialogue journals are written conversations in which two partners communicate regularly. When practiced between a teacher and student, dialogue journaling has the potential to engage students in writing, and can lead to improved teacher-student rapport. In this "Innovations in Practice" article, we evaluate the use of structured dialogue…
Descriptors: Diaries, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Teachers, Language Teachers
Brett Milliner; Blagoja Dimoski – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This classroom study evaluates the effectiveness of pre-teaching communication strategies before learners undertake an information-gap speaking task. A convenience sample of 67 first-year students taking mandatory English classes at a private Japanese university was subject to one of two instructional approaches. The experimental group (n=37)…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Training, College Freshmen, Second Language Instruction
Hong Zhang; Wei Liu; Huiqin Li – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study reports on English-as-a-foreign-language teachers' beliefs about coursebooks and their adaptation profiles; it also unveils the demographic characteristics that differentiate the profiles. Responses from 3654 Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language teachers were analyzed using Latent Profile Analysis, descriptive statistics and Scheffé's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Kai Guo; Xinyu Chen; Shen Qiao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Although prior studies have suggested the benefits of a collaborative approach to providing peer feedback in EFL writing, little is known about how students engage in collaborative peer feedback (CPF) activities. This paper reports on a case study involving five Chinese EFL students who collaboratively provided feedback on five argumentative…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Mu-Hsuan Chou – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Vocabulary learning strategies have been frequently viewed as a practical tool to facilitate the acquisition of words and enhance comprehension and production in communication. Previous research suggests that vocabulary learning strategies are a multidimensional construct. This study attempts to validate a vocabulary learning strategies…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mark B. Ulla – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
While a number of studies focused on identity construction, teacher attrition, and lived experiences among early-career teachers, studies on early-career English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' professional practices for teacher learning remain underexplored. Using the United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework dimensions of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Xin Zhao; Colin Derek McClure – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The use of virtual learning communities has shown great potential for language education. Research suggests that video-conferencing technology can assist teachers in creating such communities for second-language teaching. Gather.Town is a gamified, video-conferencing platform that revolutionizes the traditional static video-conferencing experience…
Descriptors: Gamification, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Second Language Learning
Ke Hu; Ying Deng; Xiaobin Liu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
High frequency words, which are key to a text, must be mastered to achieve minimum levels of reading proficiency. However, knowledge about the frequency of items in a language is very limited. Given this consideration, WordSift (www.wordsift.org), a word cloud tool based on high frequency and key words can assist English as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nguyen Huynh Trang; Jessie S. Barrot – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This quasi-experimental study investigates the effects of pre-writing (Pre-EI) and post-writing explicit instruction (Post-EI) on L2 learners' overall writing accuracy and errors at different severity levels. Situated within process-genre-oriented writing classrooms, a total of three intact groups (N = 101) were designated as two experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Hyun-Ju Kim; Stewart Gray; Christopher Lange – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
As student creativity is increasingly emphasized in English as a Foreign Language education, it is necessary to consider instructional techniques to encourage it. This study examines the effectiveness of two instructional techniques on creative writing performance of English as a Foreign Language students in a South Korean university. These…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Brainstorming, Teaching Methods, Essays
Astrid Morrison; Paulina Sepulveda-Escobar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, online assessment has become pivotal to allow evaluation of the knowledge and competences of teachers-to-be. In this context, this study explored language teacher educators' conceptions and practices of online assessment and the implications of this type of assessment for language teacher education. Forty-six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers
Philip Greenblatt; Peter McDonald – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Although multimodality has received vigorous attention and debate in English as a foreign language (EFL) research and classroom pedagogies, the practicality of using multimodal activities in curricula that are designed to teach language skills rather than multimodality is under researched. This paper contributes to the ongoing need for practical…
Descriptors: Public Service, Publicity, Advertising, Information Dissemination
Ju Wen; Lan Yi – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The rapid advancement in video technologies in recent years has made the creating and editing of subtitles for a video increasingly feasible. For a long time, however, the pedagogical potentials of subtitling in language teaching and learning have been neglected. To fill this gap, this technology review introduces "VisualSubSync," a free…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lucas Kohnke; Frankie Har – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Perusall, a collaborative reading tool, was introduced in an advanced reading and writing skills course in Hong Kong to increase engagement with texts and encourage critical discussion during the COVID-19 face-to-face class suspension. Students were asked to use the Perusall platform to complete pre-class readings, highlight and annotate text and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Learner Engagement, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship
Hao Xu; Wei Ren; Shulin Yu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This paper reports on a study that examines how a school teacher, a university researcher, and a professional textbook writer interact when they collaborate in designing materials for English language teaching. Data were collected from interviews with the participants and audio recordings of their interaction in collaborative design supplemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction