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Samuel S. Davidson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Automated corrective feedback (ACF), in which a computer system helps language learners identify and correct errors in their writing or speech, is considered an important tool for language instruction by many researchers. Such systems allow learners to correct their own mistakes, thereby reducing teacher workload and potentially preventing issues…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Automation, Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Briceño, Allison – Reading Psychology, 2021
This study integrated reading and bilingual theories to examine the reading behaviors of second grade Latinx students in a Dual Language program. It explored how the students' differing language backgrounds (simultaneous bilinguals and sequential bilinguals who had developed Spanish as a home language) might influence their early reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs
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Cooper, James L.; Robinson, Pamela – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2014
The authors describe several types of classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and cognitive scaffolding procedures that they have developed over the years. They then bring the procedures together in a sample lecture/group learning class presentation.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Lecture Method
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Busch, Deborah – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This large mixed methods study investigated the effects of the introductory second language acquisition (SLA) course on the beliefs of pre-service teachers (n = 381) enrolled over a three-year period at a state university in California. Pre- to post-course paired sample t-tests that were run on 23 beliefs statements from a widely used survey…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning
Thu, Tran Hoang – Online Submission, 2009
This study investigates English as a second language (ESL) teachers' beliefs in grammar teaching. A 32-item questionnaire was administered to 11 ESL teachers in a language school in California. The results show that the participants generally believe that the formal study of grammar is essential to the eventual mastery of a foreign or second…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), English (Second Language), Questionnaires, Second Language Instruction
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Shein, Paichi Pat – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2012
A case study examines a 5th-grade teacher's orchestration of discourse and interaction to create opportunities for English language learners to participate in the repair of mathematical errors during a unit on finding the area of geometric shapes. The findings detail how the teacher used gestures in grounding her questioning, revoicing students'…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Case Studies, Nonverbal Communication, Geometric Concepts
Little, Greta D.; Sanders, Sara L. – 1990
A study examining the perceptions of college students in beginning foreign language classes toward various teaching discovered a discrepancy between the value students and teachers ascribe to communicative language teaching. The study was conducted at the University of South Carolina, in two classes where a variety of teaching techniques were…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)