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Towards a New Paradigm for English Language Teaching: English for Specific Purposes in Asia and Beyond. Routledge Research in Language Education
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Terauchi, Hajime, Ed.; Noguchi, Judy, Ed.; Tajino, Akira, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
This book proposes a new paradigm for English language teaching based on concepts from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and applications as well as from growing evidence relating pattern recognition to language learning ability. The contributors to the volume argue that learners should not try to become proficient all-around users of…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Perceptions and Career Prospects of the Distance Doctor of Education Degree: Voices from the Mid-Career ELT Tertiary Practitioners
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Kung, Fan-Wei – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
The advancement of computer technologies has brought a plethora of technological innovations in educational settings. It is no exception in teacher training and education programmes around the world as the growth of professionalism has made the distance doctoral programmes possible for mid-career English language teaching (ELT) practitioners. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Pluralism
Understanding On-Screen Reading Behaviors in Academic Contexts: A Case Study of Five Graduate English-as-a-Second-Language Students
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Chou, I-Chia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
Undoubtedly, new areas of functionality for electronic texts will come to the fore and create new reading habits and expectations for dealing and interacting with text as electronic texts become dominant in the academic world. These new forms of reading will gradually become as natural as the different activities readers now take for granted, such…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Internet, Language Proficiency
Turning Experiences into Critical Re?ections: Examples from Taiwanese In-Service Teachers
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Chi, Feng-ming – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
The aims of this paper are twofold: to investigate how Taiwanese teachers of English as a Foreign Language turned experiences into critical reflections via journal writings and to describe how they gauged critical reflections as teaching inquiry. The participants were 12 Taiwanese in-service teachers enrolled in an elective course entitled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflective Teaching, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)