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Lara Bryfonski – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers' cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Principles, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
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Yesilcinar, Sabahattin; Kartal, Galip – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2020
Assessing language skills is crucial for checking the quality of teaching. Teacher assessment literacy plays a vital role in deciding on the quality of classroom assessment. Although assessment is a time-taking process, the assessment of foreign language speaking and writing with their unique characteristics requires more time, effort, and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Grade 5, Preadolescents, English (Second Language)
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Fuchs, Stephanie; Kahn-Horwitz, Janina; Katzir, Tami – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
Acquiring literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL) is important for language development. However, many students enter middle school without adequate EFL literacy skills. This may indicate a gap between EFL literacy instruction theory and the classroom practice that is occurring in elementary school classrooms. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literacy Education
Weinburgh, Molly; Silva, Cecilia; Smith, Kathy Horak – NSTA Press, 2019
Many middle and high school teachers are educated to teach science content--they don't anticipate that one day they may be teaching it to students who need to learn both content and English. If the day has come when you're facing that two-pronged challenge, here's the resource you need. "Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Science Instruction, Inquiry
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Meirovitz, Tamar; Aran, Shai S. – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2020
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to introduce a digital thinking skills (DTS) theoretical model (DTSM) that could support and enhance digital instruction best practices in schools. Methodology: We have taken a mixed-methods approach. Our respondents represent diverse cultural, linguistic, pedagogical, and social heritages.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Schulze, Joshua – CATESOL Journal, 2015
Teacher educators need linguistic tools to help preservice teachers develop a deeper understanding of the academic language demands of the literacy practices required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) serves as a tool for developing teachers' knowledge of content-area language. Teachers' increased…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Educators, Linguistic Theory
Holm, Jennifer, Ed.; Mathieu-Soucy, Sarah, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2020
The 43rd meeting of Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) was held at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (May 31-June 4, 2019). This meeting marked only the third time CMESG/GCEDM (Groupe Canadien d'Étude en Didactique des Mathématiques) had been held in Nova Scotia (1996, 2003), and the first time it had been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Postsecondary Education
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Owu-Ewie, Charles; Eshun, Emma Sarah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The language of education is crucial to learners' academic success. As a result, nations whose native languages are not the languages of education have promulgated language policies to solve communication problems in their school systems. Most multilingual nations have adopted bilingual education systems that recognize the child's native language…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Blake, Robert W., Jr., Ed.; Blake, Brett Elizabeth, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Becoming a Teacher" revisits the concept of Teacher Lore (Schubert and Ayers, 1992), by providing a cross-disciplinary approach linking elements of narrative theory to all aspects of pre- and in-service teaching. In essence, it embraces the notion that what teachers say matters. The rationale behind this text is the idea that narrative can not…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Story Telling, Special Education Teachers
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Echevarria, Jana; Richards-Tutor, Catherine; Chinn, Vivan P.; Ratleff, Paige Ann – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Use of research-based practices for improving content area literacy of English learners is important both because of their growing numbers and their overall poor academic performance. However, how do we ensure that teachers are implementing proven methods with fidelity? This study shows the direct relationship between teachers' level of…
Descriptors: Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy Education
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Peercy, Megan Madigan – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2011
The growing numbers of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. K-12 public schools have raised many questions about how to best educate these students. Much of the research on teaching ELLs has discussed the kinds of practices that should be used to increase ELLs' school achievement, but few studies have documented the actual practices that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Junior High School Students
Lenski, Susan; Verbruggen, Frances – Guilford Publications, 2010
Many English language learners (ELLs) require extra support to become successful writers. This book helps teachers understand the unique needs of ELLs and promote their achievement by adapting the effective instructional methods they already know. Engaging and accessible, the book features standards-based lesson planning ideas, examples of student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary Education, Middle Schools
Montgomery, Joel R. – Online Submission, 2008
The aim of this working paper is to identify research-supported strategies for reading and writing that can be integrated effectively to promote the development of biliterate academic literacy by English language learners (ELLs) in middle-school bilingual classrooms. The paper begins with a review of the theoretical foundations that highlight…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Writing Strategies, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning
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Sturtevant, Elizabeth G.; Moore, David W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
Elizabeth G. Sturtevant, a professor of education at George Mason University, holds a 33-year record of college-level teaching, scholarship, and service that centers on adolescent literacy. Her research helps clarify the pressures that affect teachers' literacy instruction, the role of secondary school literacy coaches, and adolescent…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Practicums, Reading Consultants, Literacy
Li, Guofang, Ed.; Edwards, Patricia A., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2010
In this work, prominent authorities review the latest research on all aspects of ELL instruction (K-12) and identify what works for today's students and schools. Provided are best-practice guidelines for targeting reading, writing, oral language, vocabulary, content-domain literacies, and other core skill areas; assessing culturally and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Writing Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, American Indians
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