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Gursoy, Esim; Arman, Tuba – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
With the increasing need to learn languages as a result of globalization there is a great demand on the part of the learners to communicate in a second/foreign language, which is also supported downwards by the governments and upwards by the parents. Among the many aspects of foreign language learning, affective factors are researched a lot as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Test Anxiety
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Early, Jessica Singer; Saidy, Christina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This mixed method investigation included a quasi-experiment examining if revision instruction enhanced the substantive revising behavior of 15 English language learner (ELL) and multilingual 10th grade students enrolled in an English class for underperforming students in comparison to 14 non-ELL and multilingual students from the same class who…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lo, Yuen Yi; Macaro, Ernesto – Language Learning Journal, 2015
Bilingual programmes in which an L2 is used as the medium of instruction are becoming popular in different parts of the world, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is one variant of such programmes. Recent research on CLIL has gradually shifted from product-oriented (i.e. evaluating the effectiveness of CLIL in terms of language and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Lo, Yuen Yi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms where students' L2 proficiency has not reached the threshold level, teachers have been observed to use L1 to assist students in grasping specific technical terms and abstract concepts. It is argued to be a 'realistic' approach to the learning problems caused by students' limited L2…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Yang, Yang; Crook, Charles; O'Malley, Claire – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
Schools are often encouraged to facilitate extra-curricular learning within their own premises. This study addresses the potential of social networking sites (SNS) for supporting such out-of-class study. Given concerns that learning on these sites may happen at a surface level, we adopted self-determination theory for designing a social networking…
Descriptors: Social Networks, After School Programs, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese
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Öz, Hüseyin; Efecioglu, Emine – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This article reports the findings of a study that investigated the role of graphic novels in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to International Baccalaureate students (aged 15-16) in TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School. Two intact 10th grade classes were randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups who studied…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)