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Sampson, Richard – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This article presents an overview of action research conducted in an EFL university context, regarding primarily the relationship between individual possible self-images, socially constructed possible self-images, and language-learning motivation. The study used three cycles of action research over the course of one 15-week university semester,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, College Students
Barraja-Rohan, Anne-Marie – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article focuses on the use of conversation analysis (CA) to help teaching interactional competence in English to adult second language learners from lower to intermediate levels. To set the context, this article gives a brief overview on the use of CA in second language research as well as considering the construct of interactional competence…
Descriptors: Language Research, Classroom Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Prince, Peter – Language Teaching Research, 2013
The listening comprehension skill is frequently cited by both teachers and learners of a second language (L2) as perhaps the most difficult to deal with in any systematic way. One possible approach is to use the dictogloss task. This involves learners reconstructing a short text they have listened to. Originally developed to draw learners'…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Grammar
Llosa, Lorena; Slayton, Julie – Language Teaching Research, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how program evaluation can be conducted and communicated in ways that meaningfully affect the education of English language learners (ELLs) in US schools. First, the paper describes the Waterford Early Reading Program Evaluation, a large-scale evaluation of a reading intervention implemented in schools with…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Program Evaluation, Early Reading, Reading Programs
Kiely, Richard – Language Teaching Research, 2009
This paper explores why the learning posited as an intrinsic dimension of evaluation practice and use has been difficult to achieve, and how it might be more effectively realized. In recent decades language programme evaluation has evolved from focused studies of teaching methods inspired by language learning theories to a curriculum management…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Learning Experience, English for Academic Purposes, Context Effect
Hobbs, Valerie; Kubanyiova, Magdalena – Language Teaching Research, 2008
Researching language teachers requires intensive involvement of both the researcher and the researched. Yet, the available methodological literature in the field often paints a blurred picture of the nature of such involvement and provides little advice on dealing with challenges inherent in this type of research. Our doctoral research projects…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Wu, Zongjie – Language Teaching Research, 2006
Allwright and colleagues around the world have been developing Exploratory Practice as an approach to practitioner research different from the familiar notion of teacher research. EP offers a set of principles devoted to understanding, in a collaborative mode, the quality of language classroom life. Several underlying points, such as "quality of…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Quality of Life, Teaching Methods, Research Methodology
Edge, Julian – Language Teaching Research, 2006
Continuing professional development as it is pursued through the interacting paradigms of reflective practice and action research can be facilitated through the disciplined use of non-judgemental discourse. A framework for such purposeful interaction, "cooperative development", has been established for face-to-face use among TESOL professionals…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Action Research, Educational Technology, Reflective Teaching

Kiely, Richard – Language Teaching Research, 2001
Describes the processes of curriculum and teacher development that follow an evaluation of a British University English for academic purposes program. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Miller, Kristyan Spelman – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Describes an approach to the study of writing processes based on the analysis of temporal aspects of the writing event. The approach involves recording the keystroke presses made during production of a text using a word processor, and analyzing such features as pausing, fluency, and revision activity. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, Higher Education, Language Fluency

Mitchell, Rosamond; Martin, Cynthia – Language Teaching Research, 1997
Presents preliminary findings from a longitudinal study of French teaching and learning in two secondary schools in southern England. Focuses on a subgroup of teachers involved in the project, examining their classroom practices and beliefs about effective teaching (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Creativity, Error Correction, Foreign Countries

Johnson, Keith – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Describes a research project that is concerned with the design procedures followed by those engaged in designing pedagogic tasks for use in classrooms. Focuses on the part of the project that involves actual observation of designers in the process of developing one specific task for class use. Findings are presented under three headers: control…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Environment, College Students, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Ruwen – Language Teaching Research, 2004
Exploratory Practice emphasizes integrating research into pedagogy, and attaches great importance to the quality of life in the classroom. It suggests that we work primarily to understand language classroom life, to bring people together, and to develop students' language competency in a harmonious atmosphere.By putting EP principles into my…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Hu, Guangwei – Language Teaching Research, 2005
Peer review has a prominent place in process-oriented writing instruction. In this paper, I share my developing use of peer review in an academic writing course for Chinese ESL learners. After reviewing the relevant literature, I describe the context in which I implemented peer review and conducted practitioner research into its productive use.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Gunn, Cindy – Language Teaching Research, 2005
For many ESL teachers, finding time for research within the everyday activities of classroom teaching can be problematic. This is often the case with large classes and classes that have few contact hours, where it is difficult to include research activities, particularly those that centre upon gathering relevant information about individual…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Researchers