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Line Krogager Andersen – Modern Language Journal, 2024
As part of a larger project investigating language awareness in plurilingual settings across educational levels through a multiple case study, this article zooms in on students' language awareness as it unfolds in a classroom in a Danish upper secondary school, in the context of a compulsory, plurilingual general language awareness course.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Kimberly Ridley; Subrata Bhowmik – TESOL Journal, 2025
Translanguaging has recently gained much currency in second language (L2) education. While the conceptualization of this theory stems from the goal of enhancing L2 education for learners, one challenge scholars have underlined is the need for more responsive, practical classroom activities consistent with translanguaging principles and stance.…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Wei Liu; Yingxue Wang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2025
Age is one of the important factors affecting individual differences in second language acquisition. The development of cognitive ability also has certain influence on second language acquisition, depending on whether this influence is positive or negative. This paper discusses the educational significance of the age factor in English teaching…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wipavee Panyathikul; Somkiet Poopatwiboon; Pilanut Phusawisot – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This quasi-experimental study investigated the effect of multimodal teaching on Thai EFL secondary learners' pronunciation. Their perception regarding the implementation of multimodal teaching was also explored. Selected from an intact class, the participants were 20 eighth graders receiving a teaching method based on the analyticlinguistic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Teaching Methods
Zhang, Yanhong; Xi, Jiao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Research into metacognition has found it to facilitate self-regulation and correlate to learners' L2 writing level. Following Lee & Mak's (2018) framework of Metacognitive Instruction (MI) for L2 writing classrooms, this study applies Dynamic Assessment (DA) to writing MI (MI-DA) in a rural middle school EFL class in China. A one-semester…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
Jia, Lin; Cai, Jianyong; Wang, Jianqin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
In Dynamic Assessment (DA), the observation that individuals respond differently to support, or mediation, is important for diagnoses of development. The concept of learning potential refers to openness to mediation, i.e., the extent of change to performance when mediation is available, which may suggest learners will need less overall instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Denise Bergström – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Learning vocabulary is a central and time-consuming endeavour for a language learner and it has thus been suggested that the foreign language classroom has to supply explicit support for students' vocabulary development. A major source of explicit word focus is vocabulary exercises in teaching materials and students' learning can be facilitated if…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
Öz, Gülsah; Köroglu, Zeynep Çetin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
The aim of the current research is to investigate the language assessment literacy perceptions of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers working at state primary, middle, and high schools in Turkey. Another purpose of the study was to investigate how EFL teachers adapted their language assessment skills to the online teaching context during…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
André Storto – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article presents an innovative way to engage schoolchildren in discussions on multilingualism and multilingual identity using research data they helped generate. Adopting an exploratory, participatory approach to research, our study uses digital data visualisations in interactive sessions aimed at engaging lower secondary students in identity…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Participatory Research
Ali A. Alzubi; Mohd Nazim; Jalal Ahamad – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
Educators, including English Language Teaching practitioners, acknowledge the influence of collaborative learning on students' learning experiences, as demonstrated by numerous studies conducted in diverse contexts. This research, however, keeping instructional innovation, students' collaborative engagement, language learning and classroom…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fei V. Lim; Weimin Toh – Teaching English with Technology, 2024
This article reports on a systematic review of research studies published from 2010 to 2021 on the use of apps for learning in the secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. We extracted relevant information such as the studies' country/region, research design, sample size, students' age, apps' names to conduct a thematic analysis to…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs
Heidt, Marium Abugasea – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2022
With the goal of exploring a motivating way to approach world language teaching and learning in order to promote lifelong language learning, this article reports on a year-long, collaborative action research study of two middle-school German classes that used an imagined communities curriculum. The curriculum, co-constructed with the classroom…
Descriptors: Imagination, Student Participation, Middle School Students, German
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
Sarah Albrecht – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This exploratory, mixed methods study proposes that pedagogical translation be implemented for biliteracy acquisition in mixed heritage language (HL)-second language (L2) secondary Spanish classrooms. It investigates the mediation of pedagogical translation for reading comprehension in two mixed HL-L2 secondary Spanish classrooms at a suburban…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Sun, Yannan – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
In China, English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers seem to be in a dilemma because of the discrepancy existing in classroom teaching and assessment, the new curriculum requirement, and the paucity of language assessment knowledge. To tackle these problems, there is an urgent need to evaluate EFL teachers' language assessment literacy (LAL) and…
Descriptors: Junior High School Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction