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Direct linkInsuk Han – SAGE Open, 2025
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a pedagogical approach that helps learners develop (meta)cognitive and social skills. In PBL, students identify problems, design strategies, implement them, and reflect on their resolution process. When applied in English language teaching (ELT), students interact throughout these phases, developing language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textEvelina Jaleniauskiene; Dalia Venckiene – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2025
The ideas of project-based language learning (PBLL) align well with the action-oriented approach, which is considered a promising approach in language education (Piccardo & North, 2019). In this study, we carried out the scoping review of empirical research articles describing the implementation of PBLL in higher education during the period…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Higher Education, Second Language Learning
Problem-Based Learning Analysis in Strengthening College Students' Interpersonal Communication Skill
Sabina Ndiung; Sebastianus Menggo – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This study seeks to analyse the incorporation of problem-based learning (PBL) in strengthening students' interpersonal communication skills, as well as the level of proficiency of students' interpersonal communication skills and the obstacles they face in acquiring them. This study was a cross-sectional survey conducted in May 2023 with 315…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Communication Skills, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Ali Orhan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Problem based learning (PBL) has great potential to enhance learning outcomes and this potential has been investigated and proved in different disciplines by many meta-analysis studies. However, there are not any meta-analysis studies aiming to investigate the effectiveness of problem based learning in English as a Foreign Language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ali Orhan – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Although problem based learning has a great potential to promote learning outcomes as well as cognitive abilities, the number of previous studies investigating this potential on critical thinking, reading comprehension abilities and attitudes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context is scarce. Also, the number of studies…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Outcomes of Education
Yasemin Kirkgöz; Burcu Turhan – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This multiple case study aims to describe how Turkish students in English Language Teaching (ELT) and Electrical-Electronics Engineering Program (EEP) conceive of Problem-based Learning (PBL), and how they experience their studies within a PBL-oriented curriculum. With the inclusion of these two cases into the study, the rationale is to represent…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teacher Education, Engineering Education, English (Second Language)
Mukasheva Bayan Muratbekovna; Aydan Irgatoglu; Golovchun Alevtina Anatolievna; Karbozova Gulnara Kumisbekovna – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study examines the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) technology in forming a foreign language professionally oriented competence of students of non-linguistic specialities. It was conducted with 60 students divided into experimental and control groups, who were taught a professionally oriented foreign language. The experimental…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Manli Long; Shifang Tang; Zhuoying Wang; Kara L. Sutton-Jones; Fuhui Tong – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2025
In this mixed-methods study, we investigated the relationship between instructional approach, students' self-efficacy beliefs, and students' English language proficiency, as well as the perceptions of the instructor and students regarding problem-based learning (PBL) in a College English course in China. Using path analysis, we assessed the…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Self Efficacy
Lixuan Sun; Adelina Asmawi; Hui Dong; Xiaotian Zhang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Amidst the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates the impact of Problem-based Language Learning (PBLL) using DingTalk on enhancing Business English Writing skills among Chinese undergraduates. Employing a mixed-method approach, the research involved two phases. In the quantitative phase, a twelve-week quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
