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Hong Zhang; Rui Yuan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The teaching of critical thinking (CT) has become an important requirement in many English language classrooms at different educational levels, yet little is known about how teachers promote the learning of CT. This article reports on a qualitative study examining the ways in which two university English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Kaihao Yuan; Shuwen Liu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The outbreak of COVID-19 witnesses a sudden surge of fully online classes globally. Scholarly attention has promptly shifted to explore the personal experiences and perceived challenges of students and teachers. For English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors around the world, many are required to teach online for the first time, yet studies…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Mark Feng Teng – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study investigates the effects of three word-focused exercise conditions on vocabulary learning. The exercises were developed based on the involvement load hypothesis. This study also explores how individual differences (e.g. second-language English proficiency level and working memory) affect vocabulary learning outcomes. A total of 180…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Short Term Memory, Learning Activities
Di Wang; Yu Huang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This article introduces the use of Internet-mediated joint construction (JC) to engage second language (L2) writers to participate in virtual classroom activities in an online teaching environment. Affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, schools and universities in the People's Republic of China were required to rapidly transit to remote…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Virtual Classrooms
Yang, Lu; Coxhead, Averil – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Growing a large vocabulary is one of the most important tasks of language learners and yet research reports on low levels of lexical knowledge for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. In EFL contexts, textbooks are a vital source of exposure to English and the words that are worth learning. The New Concept English textbook series is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Art Tsang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Many scholars and teachers in EFL education should agree that compared with reading and writing, listening has received much less attention. This brief article discusses important gaps existing in EFL listening and overall proficiency development. It presents the case for a greater focus on sounds and actual listening in the classroom and spoken…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wei Wei; Yiqian (Katherine) Cao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study explores students' participation in English for Academic Purposes classrooms from both teachers' and students' perspectives. Data were collected from videotaping of 11 English for academic purposes classes, semi-structured interviews with 12 teachers and stimulated-recall interviews with 33 students. The results indicate that three…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Participation
Jiang, Zhihui Will; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Mohamed, Naashia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Translanguaging as pedagogical practice and a theory of language has gained increasing importance in recent years. However, little research has reported Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language students' perceptions of translanguaging; neither has research examined the predictive effects of the factors contributing to the amount of student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
Li, Huifang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Two types of corrective feedback, recasts and prompts, have sparked much research in second language (L2) learning and teaching. However, it is still unclear how these two types of feedback draw learners' attention to the erroneous forms in L2 classes. This study used an open questionnaire to investigate Chinese learners' perceptions of recasts…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Cognitive Processes
He, Deyuan; Li, David C. S. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
With the largest number of English learners in the world, the influence of the English language teaching (ELT) reform in China cannot be underestimated. This article explores the implications of the actual use of English in China's workplace for ELT reform in the context of English as a lingua franca (ELF). On the basis of cross-validated data…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Promoting EMI Teacher Development in EFL Higher Education Contexts: A Teacher Educator's Reflections
Yuan, Rui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
While there is a growing research interest in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) teaching and learning in university contexts, relatively limited attention has been paid to EMI teacher development. Drawing on my past and ongoing teaching and research practice as an EMI teacher educator, this Viewpoint article considers the emotional,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Shi, Leimin; Baker, Amanda; Chen, Honglin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Developing students' communicative competence became the primary goal of the current College English Curriculum Requirements in 2004 in China. There has been increasing concern, however, that this goal has yet to be realized, particularly in relation to the teaching of writing. This study investigated the potential of a Systemic Functional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Hiller, Kristin E. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article describes an innovative approach to introducing translanguaging in an English for academic purposes (EAP) course at a young Sino-US joint-venture university in China. To promote the use of Chinese students' full linguistic and communicative repertoires in an English-medium-of-instruction university, I intentionally incorporated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kong, Melinda L. F. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
With the globalization and internationalization of education, many teachers from Asian countries pursue their professional development in English-speaking settings. However, there seems to be scarce research on these teachers' expectations, lived experiences and identities in these contexts, and how their personal experiences influence their views…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhang, Limei; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This article investigates the relationships between test takers' strategy use and test performance on an EFL reading test. For this study 209 Chinese college students were invited to participate in a reading comprehension test and answer a 30-item strategy use questionnaire. Results showed that two factors underlay test takers' reading test…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Ability
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