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Agnes Strandberg – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
As teachers' experiences are a prerequisite for developing an understanding of the challenges of teaching, their reflections on the potential of using authentic text in L1 grammar teaching deserves closer attention. This paper presents a focus-group study with six Swedish L1 teachers at upper secondary level during an intervention, in which they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Swedish, Teaching Experience
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Schurz, Alexandra; Coumel, Marion – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Today, the Common European Framework of Reference (2009), and with it the action-based approach, underlies English Language Teaching (ELT) curricula throughout Europe. However, actual teaching practices are likely to vary according to factors such as the educational level and supra-national differences, including legal guidelines and the level of…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Snoder, Per; Reynolds, Barry Lee – ELT Journal, 2019
This instructional intervention investigated the potential for the text reconstruction task "dictogloss" to facilitate the learning of English verb-noun collocations, for example 'carry a risk'. Research has shown that learners have difficulties in using such collocations, but few useful instructional techniques are on offer.…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Erixon, Per-Olof – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This article concerns how teachers of Mother-Tongue Education (MTE) and pupils in Swedish secondary schools look upon and relate to the keyboard and screen and pen and paper, respectively, for writing in the context of MTE. The results showed that both teachers and pupils found that the computer on one side and the pen and paper on the other…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Swedish, Secondary School Students, Native Language Instruction
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Thomas, Kavita E. – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This study introduces an approach to providing corrective feedback to L2 learners termed analogy-based corrective feedback that is motivated by analogical learning theories and syntactic alignment in dialogue. Learners are presented with a structurally similar synonymous version of their output where the erroneous form is corrected, and they must…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Grammar
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Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Language and Education, 2017
Access to digital technology in the classroom enables the composition and organization of ideas on screen with a variety of semiotic systems of different modes and media. This study explores patterns of communication and preference of design in digital meaning-making of twelve 7-8 years old students. Meanings were shaped in complex uses and…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Elementary School Students, Information Technology, Cultural Influences
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Dahlberg, Giulia Messina; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The study presented in this article explores the ways in which discursive-technologies shape interaction in "digitally-mediated" educational settings in terms of affordances and constraints for the participants. Our multi-scale sociocultural-dialogical analysis of the interactional order in the online sessions of an "Italian for…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Grammar, Literacy, Introductory Courses
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Fredholm, Kent – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
There is an increasing pressure from school leaders in many countries for teaching to be based solely on ICT tools. The present study is interested in what this does to pupils' attitudes towards ICT in language classrooms. Is a digital monopoly a good way for pupils to learn languages? Is it what they want? To understand for which tasks students…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Buyl, Aafke; Housen, Alex – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Although Belgium is characterized by a widespread consensus that a functional proficiency in the two major national languages, Dutch and French, as well as in English is desirable, educational provision to achieve such proficiency has long been constrained by an official language policy which mandates that education must be monolingual in Dutch,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Outcomes of Education
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Tholin, Jörgen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This paper examines whether the Swedish steering documents for English-language education are ethnically biased, that is, whether Swedish culture and language or "Swedishness" are used as norms when teaching and assessing students. To examine whether such bias exists, the central curricula and syllabi from 1994 and 2000, as well as local…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Howerton-Fox, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This case study explores the relationship between teachers' language knowledge and their grammar teaching practices within the context of a bilingual school for the deaf in Sweden, a country that has demonstrated success in educating deaf children bilingually in written Swedish and Sweden's signed language. The study's participants were two…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Correlation, Interviews, Recall (Psychology)
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Jakobson, Britt; Axelsson, Monica – Education Inquiry, 2012
In this article we examine teacher instruction on scientific literacy tasks and teacher expression of ultimate and subordinate purposes during one teaching sequence of a science unit. By using a Practical Epistemology Analysis and Systemic Functional Grammar we can provide a view of the direction learning takes and the consequences for student…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy
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Kallkvist, Marie – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article explores the value of judiciously used first language (L1)-to-second language (L2) translation in meaning-focused, advanced-level academic language education. It examines languaging in the teacher-led discourse (TLD) that arises when translation tasks are used and compares it to languaging during the TLD engendered by 4 other…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Qualitative Research, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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von Elek, Tibor – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
An account of comparative method studies in teaching English grammar to Swedish learners, conducted by the GUME/Adults Project in Gothenburg. Cognitive code learning is superior to the audiolingual habit theory for teaching second language grammar to adults but a meaningful synthesis of both methods should be sought. See FL 507 969 for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Evaluation
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