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Lam Ting Chun; Scott Aubrey – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
This article explores the potential for using a modified dictogloss task to improve ESL learners' use of genre-appropriate conventions and genre-appropriate style in the context of genre-based instruction for writing. Dictogloss has been traditionally used to enhance learners' focus on lexical and grammatical features through discussions during…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Styles, Task Analysis
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Mia Kaasby; Nancy H. Hornberger – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context, in this case the canon of Danish literature read and interpreted by multilingual students in a ninth grade classroom. BMA combines Spradley's ethnographic framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Monolingualism, Literacy
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Xueping Li; Yiru Wang – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study examines how the genre of input text influences Chinese young EFL learners' performance on continuation tasks. Participants were 30 students in Grade 9 and repeated-measures design was adopted to compare their performance on narrative and argumentative continuation tasks, in terms of writing quality, CAF indicators as well as alignment.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Nia Rohayati; Ida Hodiyah; Iis Marwan – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The objectives of this study were to determine the development process of three-dimensional Virtual Reality (3-D VR) model design and its application for learning languages in junior high schools undertaking training in Pencak silat, the Indonesian traditional martial art. This study adopted the R&D research design, with data collected from 30…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Sibanda, Rockie – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
This paper provides the rationale and purpose for a critical literacy awareness strategy, implemented to 20 English second language students at a township secondary school in South Africa. This empirical study provides insight into using newspapers as a pedagogical tool to develop students' language and critical literacy skills. Using different…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Kimberley Pager-McClymont; Evangelia Papathanasiou – English in Education, 2023
In this study, we used Conceptual Metaphor Theory (henceforth CMT) for the benefit of English for Academic Purposes' teaching and learning. CMT underpins how in metaphorical expressions, one concept is understood in terms of another. We argue that CMT can help students understand and master argumentation skills and essay structure, although there…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Sauro, Shannon; Sundmark, Bjorn – ReCALL, 2019
This paper critically examines the integration of online fanfiction practices into an advanced university English language classroom. The fanfiction project, The Blogging Hobbit, was carried out as part of a course in the teacher education program at a Swedish university for students who were specializing in teaching English at the secondary…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cartoons
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Yang, Shizhou – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2018
Recently, Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy won the 2018 Research Impact Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the largest international organization that specializes in the teaching and studies of composition. This recognition seems to signal a turn to transliteracy education, i.e., English writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lewis, Mark C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Whether or not we are teachers, all of us must make sense of language. In doing so, we encounter representations of language, implicit or explicit descriptions which shift over time and are always tied to social and political interests. Teachers' work necessarily depends on these descriptions, which are deeply embedded within their…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Influences, Political Attitudes, Language Skills
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De Costa, Peter I.; Jou, Yu-Shiang – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
In line with what Hull and Stornaiuolo (2010) describe as a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences and given the growing interest in cosmopolitanism as a result of neoliberalism (Bernstein et al., 2015) and the global rise in the use of English (Seargeant, 2012), this article investigates the ideology of cosmopolitanism by drawing on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Aliagas, Cristina; Fernández, Júlia-Alba; Llonch, Pau – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Despite the well-known educational possibilities afforded by "Rhythm And Poetry" (RAP) for the development of musical, lyrical and critical skills [Morrell, E., & Duncan-Andrade, J. M. R. (2002). Promoting Academic Literacy with Urban Youth through Engaging Hip-hop Culture. "The English Journal," 91(6), 88-92. Retrieved…
Descriptors: Music, Romance Languages, Academic Discourse, Literacy
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Kerfoot, Caroline; Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie – Language and Education, 2015
This article is the guest editors' introduction to the special issue "Language in Epistemic Access: Mobilising Multilingualism and Literacy Development for More Equitable Education in South Africa". The issue offers complementary perspectives on improving epistemic access for all learners but especially those whose home language does not…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods
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Bohát, Róbert; Rödlingová, Beata; Horáková, Nina – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Corpus of High School Academic Texts (COHAT), currently of 150,000+ words, aims to make academic language instruction a more data-driven and student-centered discovery learning as a special type of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), emphasizing students' critical thinking and metacognition. Since 2013, high school English as an additional…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Narinasamy, Ilhamanggai; Mukundan, Jayakaran; Nimehchisalem, Vahid – English Language Teaching, 2013
Studies on ESL/EFL learners' use of the progressives reveal that it is one of the grammatical aspects most problematic to them. This paper presents the results of a study on the use of progressives among Year 5, Form 1 and Form 4 Malaysian ESL learners' compositions using the English of Malaysian School Students (EMAS) corpus. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Poveda, David – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
In this article, I examine literacy artifacts placed by students in different locations of a state-run secondary school in the city of Madrid, Spain. The data were gathered as part of a two-year long multilevel ethnography focused on the social and academic trajectories of immigrant students in Spanish compulsory secondary education. The analysis…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Latin Americans, Anthropological Linguistics, Ethnography
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