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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz; Patricia Garcia-Arena – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is part of a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support students…
Descriptors: English Learners, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
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Veronika Timpe-Laughlin; Bianca Roters; Yuko Goto Butler – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
Originating in adult education, the approach of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been promoted in young language learner (YLL) education. However, its application often encounters challenges due to varying interpretations of what constitutes a "task." Previous research has repeatedly highlighted gaps in teachers' understanding of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Milica Savic; Anders Myrset; Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book introduces the main concepts of pragmatics as they relate to the young English language learner classroom and research with young second language learners (YLLs). It considers the speech acts which are particularly relevant to YLLs and presents research findings on learners' development of speech act perception and production. It…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is part of a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support students…
Descriptors: English Learners, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Tomáš Kos – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
An increasing body of research has explored patterns of interaction and peer support among young learners. Although some studies suggest that young learners can engage in collaboration when interacting on tasks, other studies indicate the opposite. Moreover, despite the claims that peer collaboration is conducive to learning, studies have not paid…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is part of a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support students…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, English Learners, Second Language Instruction
Mark Justine M. Marcos – Online Submission, 2024
This research delves into the assessment of Grade 4 students' reading proficiency at Bueno Integrated School, situated in the Capas West District of Tarlac Province, during the academic period of 2019-2020. Employing a quantitative-descriptive research methodology, this study pinpointed deficiencies in reading abilities through the administration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Instructional Materials
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Marium Abugasea Heidt – NECTFL Review, 2025
As language programs are endangered in K-16 contexts due to low enrollments, and for budgetary reasons, it is more important than ever to find enduring ways to help promote the study of languages and to make studying languages enjoyable for everyone. For sustainable language education, we need to focus on and promote the true purpose of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, Declining Enrollment
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Ratteera Ruksil; Somkiet Poopatwiboon; Pilanut Phusawisot – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
Pronunciation is a crucial component of language acquisition, vital for achieving clarity and fluency in communication. This study, utilizing cycles of action research, aimed to evaluate the impact of songs on the pronunciation skills of Thai EFL learners. Additionally, this study explored the participants' perceptions of using songs in their…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Schulz, Johannes; Hamilton, Catherine; Wonnacott, Elizabeth; Murphy, Victoria – Review of Education, 2023
This systematic review reports on research investigating the impact of multi-word unit (MWU) input on young learners' second language (L2) attainment in instructed settings. Recent findings suggest that L2 learners can generalise from MWU input, abstract patterns and employ such schemata productively via slot-filling, indicating that MWUs are key…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Seongyong Lee; Jaeho Jeon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Artificial agents, such as voice-controlled conversational agents (VCAs) built into smart devices, are becoming more prevalent in daily and educational contexts, enhancing the possibility of using them as language partners. However, research has primarily focused on the cognitive or affective outcomes of using these agents, overlooking questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Berliana Dyah Ayu Aprilianti – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
As one of the productive skills, writing is highly required to be mastered in English as a foreign language. Moreover, communication can occur not only in spoken form but also in written form. In creating a good learning atmosphere for the students, teachers try to use the most appropriate approach to achieve the learning goals, especially in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Caitlyn Allen Pineault – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Many scholars have identified teacher education (TE) as a crucial site for strengthening the research-practice interface. Much of this work has focused on formal TE opportunities, English-language instructors, or university-level contexts. Less is known about how other educator demographics engage with second language (L2) research throughout…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Education, Faculty Development
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Paul Sun, Peijian; Yang, Qing; Hou, Xiaoming – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examined young learners' motivation and strategy use for Chinese-as-a-foreign-language (L2 Chinese) learning in New Zealand. A total of 1157 primary school students from 29 primary schools were recruited for the study. The results revealed that primary school young learners' overall motivation and strategy use for L2 Chinese learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marianne Nikolov, Editor; Stela Letica Krevelj, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Over the past six decades, the field of teaching modern foreign languages to young learners has come a long way, from the early surmises about the advantages of a young start to today's widespread integration of foreign languages into curricula in public and private schools. The chapters in this book bring together internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, FLES
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