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Fu, Mengxia; Li, Shaofeng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This article reports on a study exploring the differential effects of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and forty-five seventh-grade EFL learners were assigned to four groups: Immediate CF, Delayed CF, Task Only, and Control. Each experimental group performed six focused…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Olander, Clas; Wickman, Per-Olof; Tytler, Russell; Ingerman, Åke – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The aim of this article is to investigate students' meaning-making processes of multiple representations during a teaching sequence about the human body in lower secondary school. Two main influences are brought together to accomplish the analysis: on the one hand, theories on signs and representations as scaffoldings for learning and, on the…
Descriptors: Human Body, Video Technology, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries
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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
Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku; Role, Elizabeth; Tuguta, Ellen – Online Submission, 2013
This paper looked at students' perceived level of English proficiency among Dodoma secondary schools in Tanzania. Factors like attitude, anxiety, classroom activities, motivation, and learning resources were considered as influencing English learning. The study was guided by three theories: Input Hypothesis, Inter-language and Vygotsky's theory of…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku; Role, Elizabeth; Tuguta, Ellen – International Journal of Instruction, 2013
This paper looked at students' perceived level of English proficiency among Dodoma secondary schools in Tanzania. Factors like attitude, anxiety, classroom activities, motivation, and learning resources were considered as influencing English learning. The study was guided by three theories: Input Hypothesis, Interlanguage and Vygotsky's theory of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Ramachandran, Sharimllah Devi; Rahim, Hajar Abdul – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Whilst the communicative approach advocates the use of the target language and implicit/incidental learning in vocabulary teaching, recent literature suggests that there is a need for these methods to be reconsidered. This is motivated by studies which suggest that for effective vocabulary learning process to occur explicit learning should be…
Descriptors: Translation, Incidental Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Vocabulary Development