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Li, Chili; Wang, Yuehua; Qian, Long; Shang, Zhenru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper reports on the results of a quantitative study that was aimed to measure the use of socio-cultural strategies in learning English writing among a group of 155 Chinese university English major students. This quantitative survey was informed by the socio-cultural theory that holds that L2 learning is a mediational process in which a…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Xiaoning – English Language Teaching, 2022
The course Introduction to Linguistics aims at fostering students' rational understanding of human languages, fortifying students' linguistic and cultural awareness and critical thinking ability, and developing students' language research awareness and interest. The article analyzes the status quo of Introduction to Linguistics teaching in some…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Case Studies, Linguistics
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Shao, Yanhong; Kang, Shumin – English Language Teaching, 2021
Thinking quality is one of the important parts of the core competencies of English courses at senior high schools in China, indicating the cognitive ability and level of thinking in logical, critical, and innovative aspects. This study attempts to integrate the development of cognitive skills into reading instruction, showing how to immerse…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, High School Students, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
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Lv, Lihui; Liu, Chunyan – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper investigated how production task combined with teacher feedback (in the form of recasts) affects child second language development, and the effects of task complexity on their production performance. 92 child learners of English in three intact classes were assigned to three tasks of different complexity (simple, +complex, ++complex).…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alqahtani, Faten – English Language Teaching, 2021
Existing literature indicates that assessment is a critical aspect of teaching and learning language; the outcomes of testing are vital. The history of assessment can be traced back to when exams primarily served two significant purposes in China: choosing candidates for admission into government offices and preventing corruption. Washback as a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing Problems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hill, Aryn C. – English Language Teaching, 2022
The overall purpose of this study is to explore and understand how students acquire and apply new information (in particular, vocabulary) and how we as instructors can aid in this process. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) as a whole tends to prioritize implicit learning but it is my belief that certain content can be understood more…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Du, Yanxia – English Language Teaching, 2020
Since the 21st century, the cultivation and improvement of college students' English autonomous learning ability have become an important symbol of deepening the reform of College English teaching. The reform of teaching model is the critical to it. With the help of the self-constructed flipped classroom teaching model, this paper designs the…
Descriptors: College Students, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Shijun; Wang, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2019
Task-based language teaching on the purpose of enhancing students' communicative skills and involving them actively in the authentic context has long been highlighted in recent years in tertiary English language teaching. This paper proposes a framework of task-based teaching approach and language assessment in intensive reading class based on the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Zhang, Hong – English Language Teaching, 2020
With effective learning as its core principle, Production-oriented Approach (POA) was developed to address the problems of English classroom instruction in China, such as text-centeredness, the separation of learning and using and "dumb English". This study applied POA to college English classroom instruction in order to examine its…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Huang, Danyan – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study aims to explore the potential use of sentence tree-structure in English grammar teaching in college. After combining Schema Theory and Lexical Chunk Theory, the writer proposed the sentence tree-structure tool and tried to apply it in one of her grammar classes in college. During the teaching process, students were asked to analyze long…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xu, Bo – English Language Teaching, 2018
New media is widely used in English teaching and learning, special education, in particular. In the new settings, hearing impaired students' learning features are individualized learning style, visual-based learning mode, weakness in understanding and laziness in learning. It is easy for hearing impaired students to learn English via micro course…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lei, Jiang; Lin, Yuewu – English Language Teaching, 2018
Mediation theory facilitates teachers and students to tackle the barriers in English teaching and learning process. It offers a sound systematic theoretical fort on which teachers could rely, redefines teachers' roles and functionings in the process of learners' cognitive development and growing self-regulations. The famous psychologist Lev…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wei, Yuehong – English Language Teaching, 2013
In China, English classroom is the main place of English language acquisition. Therefore, how to improve English classroom teaching effectively has become the scholars' concern. This paper reports a study conducted at North China Electric Power University on the functions of western cultural nonverbal behaviors in English classroom in China.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Asians, English (Second Language)
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Li, Dan – English Language Teaching, 2009
The paper attempts to explore the activating strategies to fossilizations for Chinese EFL learners. Fossilization, although always being ignored in China, still exerts its important role in blocking the EFL learning process for Chinese learners. To overcome this learning barrier, this paper is written to put forward the practical solutions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Learning Processes
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Quan, Hong; Liu, Dandan; Cun, Xiangqin; Lu, Yingchun – English Language Teaching, 2009
This paper analyses the design, implementation and assessment of a level 2 module for non-English major students in higher vocational and professional education. 1132001 is a code of module that uses active methods to teach college English in China. It specifically reflects on the module's advantage and defect for developing and improving learning…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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