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Megala Rajendran; Moniza Ray; Ajit Ilangovan; Vinoth Kumar Chokkalingam; Anand Binod Singh – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Digital games are increasingly used in education to boost engagement and reduce stress. Digital game-based learning (DGBL) has improved the learning experience. However, further investigation is needed to determine the specific impact of commercially available, off-the-shelf (COTS) video games on English language skills. This study provides a…
Descriptors: Video Games, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Skills
Ferran Gesa; Neus Frigolé; Maria-del-Mar Suárez – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Most students and practitioners commonly see grammar teaching and learning as both tedious and unattractive experiences. In this sense, more innovative ways of presenting foreign language grammar are needed. One such novel approach is Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), which has proven to be beneficial in a wide array of disciplines, including language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Teaching Methods
Mikel Gartziarena; Jon Altuna – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This quantitative research focuses on exploring and describing the beliefs of 418 in-service teachers on language teaching approaches and multilingualism in the South of the Basque Country. The findings report key factors and features of multilingual education in the region where Basque (minority language), Spanish (majority language), English…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Lorenzo, Francisco; Granados, Adrián; Rico, Nuria – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Previous research has raised concerns that equity may be compromised in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) education, creating schisms in otherwise fairly egalitarian education systems. In Andalusia (southern Spain), where bilingual education has expanded, this article aims to analyze the difference between CLIL bilingual education…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Martínez-Flor, Alicia, Ed.; Sánchez-Hernández, Ariadna, Ed.; Barón, Júlia, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2023
This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics. Also included are chapters that present…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Pragmatics, Teaching Methods
Marta Gràcia; Jesús M. Alvarado; Fàtima Vega; Maria Josep Jarque; Pamela Castillo; Ana Luisa Adam-Alcocer – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Digital tools can guide and support teachers in professional development programmes. The aim of this study was four-fold: (1) to explore changes introduced in classroom methodology by secondary school teachers during their participation in a professional development programme, using the digital tool EVALOE-DSS, based on conversational methodology;…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Faculty Development, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Alexander Frank García Vaquero; Maria Alcantud Diaz – Digital Education Review, 2023
This article examines how technology-enhanced inquiry-based learning (IBL) affected students' language acquisition and the evolution of motivation in the subject of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Furthermore, this study presents a proposal for the collaboration of the subjects of Spanish and English, using translanguaging to establish…
Descriptors: Robotics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Calzada, Asier; García Mayo, María del Pilar – Language Awareness, 2021
Collaborative writing tasks have been claimed to offer language learning opportunities because they implicitly draw learners' attention to form. Nevertheless, their efficacy has been claimed to be moderated by proficiency, as low proficiency learners tend to override form over meaning. These claims, however, are mostly based on adult learners and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Task Analysis, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
Skelly, Katherine Jane; Estrada-Chichon, Jose Luis – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Mindfulness is a relaxation technique that has been associated with positive effects when used as a coping strategy for stress and anxiety. In this regard, the objectives of this article are to investigate how mindfulness could help improve adolescents' ability to regulate their attention, emotion, behaviour and thinking; learn English as a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cortina-Pérez, Beatriz; Andúgar, Ana – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
The democratisation of early childhood education and care and the promotion of plurilingualism across Europe have facilitated the implementation of educational projects and research on early language learning at the pre-primary stage. However, in Spain and similar foreign language (FL) education contexts, it is not clear who should be implementing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Qualifications, Likert Scales
Aguilar-Pérez, Marta; Khan, Sarah – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: Research on EMI (English-Medium Instruction) has addressed the extent to which content lecturers speaking in their L1 perform as well as when they lecture in English. In this study a lecturer who gave the same lecture in his L1 (Catalan) and English was observed to examine if and how transitioning from one language to another impacts his…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Morell, Teresa; Aleson-Carbonell, Marian; Escabias-Lloret, Pilar – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present Prof-teaching, an Englishmedium instruction (EMI) lecturer training program at the University of Alicante (UA) and to determine if it meets the needs of the institution's current and prospective EMI lecturers. Design/methodology/approach: In this case study, the EMI lecturer professional development…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gómez Ramos, José Luis; Palazón Fernández, José Luis; Lirio Castro, Juan; Gómez-Barreto, Isabel Mª – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Though concept maps and graphic organisers are useful tools for bilinguals to organise the information being managed and learned, its systematic use is not widened and decisive in CLIL domains. Apart from helping students to acquire meaningful learning, concept mapping might promote in them word-recognition skills for the identification and…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Standardized Tests, Intelligence Quotient
Luque Agulló, Gloria – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This study attempts to reveal whether there is unintentional reverse transfer L2[right arrow]L1 (English-Spanish) in the oral L1 production of university learners in formal contexts. The languages used by learners influence each other, and this transfer may occur from the first to the second language ("direct transfer"), or from the…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Carmen Muñoz; Anastasia Pattemore; Daniela Avello – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new…
Descriptors: Captions, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction