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Burton, Graham – ELT Journal, 2022
The commonly used categorical system for conditionals (zero, first, second, and third) has been repeatedly demonstrated to be inadequate because it is unable to account for many conditional types attested in actual usage. ELT coursebooks and pedagogic grammars are criticized for ignoring the evidence and persisting with its use, but the reality…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Descriptions
Sarigöz, Iskender Hakki – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2019
In ELT (English Language Teaching) departments, prospective teachers come across a wide range of methodological domains which are applied and theoretical. Most of the instructional patterns can be practiced in microteachings. Upon feedback, the mistakes can be corrected and the procedures reworked if required. Nevertheless, syllabus, which is the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Descriptions
Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2017
The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed in Ellis (2009) and Long (2016). The purpose of this article is to move forward by examining a number of real problems that TBLT faces--such as how a "task" should be…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Abell, Jacob; Johnson, Stacey Margarita – Dimension, 2021
This paper describes one approach to focusing on Connections, one of the five Cs from the World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, as a means of exposing introductory language students to culturally diverse authentic texts through drama-based pedagogy. Our approach focuses on an instructor working within an established departmental…
Descriptors: French, Introductory Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Schicker, Juliane – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2018
Language instructors are grappling with the question of how to teach writing effectively in upper-level undergraduate world language classes. At that point, students still have to master aspects of grammar; they often work on general writing skills in their native language and hope to improve their skills to effectively bring forth arguments in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, German, Writing Instruction
Elder, Cristyn L.; Davila, Bethany – Composition Studies, 2017
This course design describes a 3-credit, two-week intensive Stretch and Studio Practicum course at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Because the Stretch and Studio composition curriculum is designed to help students who may be at greater risk of not succeeding, instructors are required to complete the practicum before teaching in the program.…
Descriptors: Practicums, Success, Hispanic American Students, Writing (Composition)
Criado, Raquel – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This article presents a framework for the elaboration of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) grammar materials for adults based on the application to SLA of Skill Acquisition Theory (SAT). This theory is argued to compensate for the major drawbacks of FLT settings in comparison with second language contexts (lack of classroom learning time and limited…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
Zabala Unzalu, Igone; San Martin Egia, Itziar; Lersundi Ayestaran, Mikel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to describe some theoretical and methodological bases underpinning the design of the course Health Communication in Basque (HCB) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Based on some relevant theoretical tenets of the socioterminologic and communicative approaches to Terminology, the authors assume that…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Variation, Vocabulary Development
Gugin, David – English Teaching Forum, 2014
The teaching of writing, and the teaching of developmental and ESL/EFL writing in particular, has historically given priority to the sentence, often in theory and almost always in practice. The writing approach modeled here simply argues that the paragraph should be given primacy of place in ESL/EFL academic writing instruction. The…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Moglen, Daniel – CATESOL Journal, 2014
Vast amounts of daily news content are widely available and easily accessible, and they can be converted into materials for intermediate and advanced ESL classes. This article will describe the why and how for integrating news media sources into a multiskills ESL classroom. Through the news, students are immediately engaged with the material…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, News Media
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2015
"Special education" has become a prominent field that needs some attention in pre-service teacher education programmes offered by educational and teacher training institutions (e.g. Egyptian colleges of education at university). Like normal students, students with special educational needs (e.g. physical and mental disabilities, learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Special Needs Students
Ahmed, Sawsan; Alamin, Abdulamir – English Language Teaching, 2012
The field of English as a second language has gone through a number of changes in the last decades and has seen extreme adjustments throughout the methods of teaching and curriculum planning. This article finds the relevance of the old methods to the new methods. After providing the background it becomes apparent that almost all the older methods…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Colton, Jared Sterling; Surasinghe, Thilina Dilan – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014
Writing has an important role in science education and practice. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary collaboration between English rhetoric studies and biology, seemingly disparate disciplines, we describe a model for a scientific writing and communication course. The goals of the course were to prepare students for science-oriented careers, as well…
Descriptors: English, Biology, Scientific Methodology, Technical Writing
Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Language is seen as a system for communicative purposes and as such it involves more than just a structural organization. Indeed this view of language considers different kinds of competence which make communication really meaningful: linguistic, sociolinguistic discourse, and strategic. Linguistic competence is what we usually regard as the basis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, Social Environment
Har, Amelia Leong Chiew – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
It is undeniable that learning the articles "a," "an," and "the" presents serious difficulties to the learners and teachers alike in the English Language classrooms, but previous studies done on the teaching of articles have shown that there are many techniques of teaching the articles that can be employed in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning