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Willy A. Renandya; Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh; George M. Jacobs – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The aim of this article is to assist TESOL learners in effectively delving into professional literature for both their coursework and future teaching endeavors. It begins by addressing common challenges in critical reading faced by TESOL students, such as complex and technical language, varied writing styles and a lack of familiarity with TESOL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers, Critical Reading
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Khodos, Iryna; Hunt, Jaime – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Introductory sociolinguistics courses at university can be challenging, especially for students at the very beginning of their tertiary studies. Difficulties may arise due to students not having any prior exposure to the discipline's content or methodologies, which is likely to be a result of these aspects not generally being taught in high…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Sociolinguistics, Video Technology, Teaching Methods
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Ondrej Klabal – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
This paper is based within the framework of step-by-step approach to teaching legal translation. The underlying philosophy behind this approach is that when specific aspects of legal translations are tackled in isolation and trainees become aware of the pitfalls involved and the possible solutions, this helps them in further training as well as in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Syntax, Second Languages
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Chan, Alice Yin Wa – TESOL Journal, 2021
This study reviews the difficulties that learners of English as a second or foreign language encounter in the use of English articles and puts forward some suggestions that can help advanced learners overcome their problems. It has been observed that learner performance may be deceptive and accurate article selections may be led by inappropriate…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hochberg, Judy – NECTFL Review, 2019
This paper argues for bringing insights from linguistics into the world language classroom. At any level of study, such insights can add intellectual interest to the study of a target language (TL), and can also help students accept and acquire aspects of the TL that are different from their first language or that are inherently challenging. As a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Chinese, French, German
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Edens, Kellah; Shields, Carol – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Promoting students' conceptual understanding and academic language development is a primary goal of instructors in all subject areas. These goals, however, are sometimes hindered by the way students' learning is assessed. In many college-level courses, knowledge-level tests that assess concrete thinking associated with superficial approaches to…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Academic Discourse
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Sherwood, Emily – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2018
Literacy scholar Alfred Tatum has argued for a model for literacy with African-American male adolescents that includes the particular needs and contexts of this population. He describes this as an "anatomically complete" model and bases his model on a set of four "vital signs" that, combined, help increase student achievement.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Males, African American Students, Literacy Education
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Housen, Alex; Kuiken, Folkert; Vedder, Ineke – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
The theme of this volume, complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as dimensions of second language production, proficiency and development, represents a thriving area of research that addresses two general questions that are at the heart of many studies in second language acquisition and applied linguistics: What makes a second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2014
Students at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT) take an Islamic Translation course in which they practice translating different kinds of Islamic texts (genres) including excerpts from the Holy Quran and the Prophet's Sayings. The aims of the present article are to introduce the students to the history of the translation of the Holy…
Descriptors: Translation, Islam, Literary Genres, Religious Factors
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Bardel, Camilla; Gudmundson, Anna; Lindqvist, Christina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This article reports on the design and use of a profiler for lexical sophistication (i.e., use of advanced vocabulary), which was created to assess the lexical richness of intermediate and advanced Swedish second language (L2) learners' French and Italian. It discusses how teachers' judgments (TJs) of word difficulty can contribute to the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Effect Size, Profiles, Vocabulary Development
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Wineburg, Sam; Martin, Daisy – Social Education, 2009
History teachers are faced with an impossible dilemma. Voices from every corner urge them to use primary sources. Sources, teachers are told, are to history what the laboratory is to science: the place where the subject becomes most vital. At the same time, any teacher who has used sources knows the many obstacles. Using sources to make history…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Difficulty Level
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Ciechanowski, Kathryn M. – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article reports on a study of how third-grade bilingual students drew from everyday resources, particularly popular culture, in science classes and how the use of these resources shaped how they made sense of academic texts. Six months of data collection in an urban Midwestern school demonstrated that students--especially English-language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Popular Culture, English (Second Language), Bilingual Students
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De Felice, Rachele; Pulman, Stephen – CALICO Journal, 2009
In this article, we present an approach to the automatic correction of preposition errors in L2 English. Our system, based on a maximum entropy classifier, achieves average precision of 42% and recall of 35% on this task. The discussion of results obtained on correct and incorrect data aims to establish what characteristics of L2 writing prove…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Form Classes (Languages), Error Correction, Second Language Learning
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Weiss, Amy L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
Pragmatics, the use of language in context, has been investigated only recently in the language used by children who stutter (CWS). Historically, researchers compared the length and complexity of the syntactic constructions produced by these children with those of children who do not stutter (CWNS) and generally found the CWS to be relatively…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Usage, Stuttering, Language Fluency
Brown, Gillian – TESL Talk, 1982
A limited attempt to teach and assess the ability of native English-speaking adolescents is described. The concern is not to teach more language but to encourage use of existing language in a formal interview with maximum flexibility and effectiveness. Possible ties into second language instruction are considered. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Difficulty Level, English, Interviews
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