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Celina Salvador-Garcia; Oscar Chiva-Bartoll; David Hortigüela-Alcalá – European Physical Education Review, 2024
Although the educational intentions of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) seem to be perspicuous, how to put them into practice in different subjects is not so clear-cut. In addition, critical voices within the physical education (PE) arena claim that CLIL may jeopardise the subject. Therefore, CLIL needs to be adjusted in order to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Characteristics
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Cohen, Andrew D.; Gu, Peter Yongqi; Nyikos, Martha; Plonsky, Luke; Harris, Vee; Gunning, Pamela; Wang, Isobel Kai-Hui; Pawlak, Miroslaw; Gavriilidou, Zoe; Mitits, Lydia; Sykes, Julie M.; Gao, Xuesong – Language Teaching, 2023
This article presents reflections from 12 experts on "language learners strategy" (LLS) research. They were asked to offer their reflections in one of their domains of expertise, linking research into LLS with successful language learning and use practices. In essence, they were called upon to provide a review of recent scholarship by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Grammar
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Kwon, Jungmin – Multicultural Perspectives, 2021
Despite the increasing body of scholarship on multilingual children, little insight has been provided about what researchers need to consider when documenting and exploring young children's multilingual experiences. In this essay, I engage in a reflective account of designing and employing child-centered interview activities (i.e., drawing, mind…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Freehand Drawing
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Tavares, Nicole Judith – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Perusall, a web-based collaborative reading platform characterised by its social annotation functionalities, was introduced in a postgraduate teacher-training language-awareness course in Hong Kong during the shift to online teaching and learning brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Tasks were designed on Perusall to engage the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Empowerment, Textbook Content, Content Analysis
Bond, Bee – Multilingual Matters, 2020
This book focuses on the nexus of language, disciplinary content and knowledge communication against the background of the economic, cultural and ideological forces of Higher Education's current push for internationalisation. It suggests the need for a greater synergy between language and content experts and argues that change needs to be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, International Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Vorozhbitova, Alexandra A.; Marchenko, Olga I.; Timofeyev, Alexander V.; Issina, Gaukhar I. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The article substantiates the synergistic concept of complex linguistic and rhetorical (L&R) training necessary for the high-quality professional training of a future specialist of any direction and profile of higher school education; the specification is made on the example of a teacher of a foreign language (foreign languages). The…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Second Language Learning
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Sánchez, María José Naranjo; Garcia, Mª Mercedes Rico; Santamaría, Héctor Sánchez; Serrat, Jesús Salguero – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
With the recent emergence of the interactive TV, the iTV starts to gain ground as a learning social media forgotten in the last decades due to previously existing applications (smart phones, tablets, laptops) that surpassed it. The TV has always been used as a means of transmission and family conciliatory, but, at the same time, the necessary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interactive Video, Social Media
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Pham, Quy Huynh Phu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
In recent years, the use of English corpora to instruct grammar in writing classes has become increasingly popular. In English for Specific Purposes classes, such a novel approach is critically important since it not only allows teachers to achieve a profound understanding of which syntactic structures should be instructed, but it also increases…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Quirke, Phil – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
In this article the author honors Dr. Brian Tomlinson's distinguished career and his standing as one of the world's leading experts on materials development in English language teaching and learning. Noting Tomlinson's ability to touch the professional lives of his colleagues, the author hopes that a journey through his own personal career and how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Media Selection
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Warner, Chantelle – AILA Review, 2018
In the ten years since the Modern Language Association published their report, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" (2007) dissatisfaction with the "two-tiered configuration" of US foreign language departments has become increasingly vocal. While the target of the criticism is often the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Departments
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Nimehchisalem, Vahid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2015
Antony John Kunnan is a language assessment specialist. His research interests are fairness of tests and testing practice, assessment literacy, research methods and statistics, ethics and standards, and language assessment policy. His most recent publications include a four-volume edited collection of 140 chapters titled "The Companion to…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Specialists, College Faculty
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Skier, Jason; Vibulphol, Jutarat – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2016
While corpus linguistics has been applied towards many specific academic purposes, reports are few regarding its use to facilitate learning of legal English by non-native English speakers. Specialized corpora are required because legal English often differs significantly from ordinary usage, with words such as bar, motion, and hearing having…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Meierkord, Anja; Day, Laurie – European Commission, 2017
In 2006, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the Recommendations on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning. The framework sets out eight competences, which citizens need for 'personal fulfilment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment'. Language competences play a prominent role in the framework, with two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Activities, Lifelong Learning
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Reichelt, Melinda; Lefkowitz, Natalie; Rinnert, Carol; Schultz, Jean Marie – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
In this article, four second language writing specialists address the following significant questions related to foreign language (FL) writing instruction: (1) How is FL writing different from English as a second language writing? (2) How does the sociolin-guistic role of a given FL influence how writing is employed in the overall curriculum for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Correa, Doris; Wilches, Jaime Usma – HOW, 2013
In the context of the National Bilingual Program 2004-2019, currently called "Program for Strengthening the Development of Competencies in a Foreign Language," the Colombian government has implemented a series of actions to raise the level of English proficiency of teachers and students and insert the country into globalization…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Bilingualism
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