NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 20012
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations2
Showing 1 to 15 of 353 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ana Elizabeth Acuña-González; Claudio Heraldo Díaz-Larenas – HOW, 2025
Conducted in a French private school in Chile, this action research study aims to explore the contribution of video-based listening activities from the ESL video website in supporting the listening comprehension skills for specific information of a group of 18 fifth graders. The results of a pre- and post-intervention test used to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Listening Comprehension, Video Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Seongyong Lee; Jaeho Jeon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Artificial agents, such as voice-controlled conversational agents (VCAs) built into smart devices, are becoming more prevalent in daily and educational contexts, enhancing the possibility of using them as language partners. However, research has primarily focused on the cognitive or affective outcomes of using these agents, overlooking questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Maddamsetti, Jihea – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
This year-long multiple case study examines how three elementary-level ESL teachers understood their advocacy for emerging bilinguals, what tensions arose during their advocacy, and how they dealt with those tensions. Interviews, teaching artefacts, and observations were analyzed using a theoretical model informed by third space theory and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Advocacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Norro, Soili – Language and Education, 2023
Societal language ideologies affect language education policy implementation through teachers' beliefs, which in turn influence their pedagogical decisions and practices. Understanding the relationship between language ideologies and teachers' beliefs is crucial in multilingual contexts in postcolonial countries such as Namibia. This study…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Adnan Yilmaz; Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart; Necati Sönmez – TESOL Journal, 2024
Social justice language education (SJLE) explores the ways in which language classrooms can be transformed to disrupt the existing oppressive policies and practices in schools and the society at large (Ortaçtepe Hart & Martel, 2020; Ortaçtepe Hart, 2023; Ortega, 2021). As an approach within SJLE, dramatizing children's literature can raise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Social Justice, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ruck, Julia – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Audio-visual texts play a vital role in FL instruction. Numerous publications point to their benefits to reach communicative and cultural learning goals. However, there is only limited empirical insight into how the medium's multimodal resources are used in the context of FL learning. To understand how elementary-level learners of German engage…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learner Engagement, Multimedia Materials, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Paul Sun, Peijian; Yang, Qing; Hou, Xiaoming – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examined young learners' motivation and strategy use for Chinese-as-a-foreign-language (L2 Chinese) learning in New Zealand. A total of 1157 primary school students from 29 primary schools were recruited for the study. The results revealed that primary school young learners' overall motivation and strategy use for L2 Chinese learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Cheng Zeng; Linda Fisher – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
Purpose: Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) apps such as Duolingo have great potential for promoting learners' motivation to learn a second language (L2). However, little research has investigated how this motivational impact takes place. Additionally, despite the flexibility of mobile learning, most existing studies are conducted in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jeon, Jaeho – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study investigated the impact of a flipped approach to EFL classes on learners' use of technology and their attitudes toward technology for language learning. Among 428 EFL primary school learners divided into four groups, two groups confirmed to have homogenous attitudes regarding technology participated in this study. Each group was…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Paola Mannarelli; Raquel Serrano – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Pop songs have been claimed to provide a noteworthy source of second language (L2) input. While listening to songs in English is one of the most commonly reported out-of-class activities among EFL learners, little research exists as to how different teaching approaches to the use of songs in the EFL class can enhance students' vocabulary learning.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Music, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Anas Hajar; Almira Tabaeva – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Private tutoring (PT) has significantly expanded worldwide in recent decades. Despite its popularity and implications for the operation of formal education systems and cultural and social development, research on English private tutoring (EPT) is still in its infancy. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory (1994), this mixed-methods study is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Xuexue Yang – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2025
This study explores the responsiveness of an elementary teacher's support for emergent bilingual students by examining the connections between the teacher's assessment expertise, formative assessment practices, and emergent bilinguals' unique language needs in math classes. The study, which investigated the indicators that characterize a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Cristina Illamola; Montserrat Sendra; F. Xavier Vila i Moreno – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the longitudinal development of language attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish over a five-year period in the transition from primary to secondary education of a sample of students (N = 1,143) in Catalonia and Aragon. Two research questions were investigated: (1) How do language attitudes develop over time? and (2) How do…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Spanish, Romance Languages, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chiu-Jung Chen; Pei-Lin Liu – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
This research examined the possibility of using Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and Total Physical Response (TPR) as a new method of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. This study sought to explore the potential benefits of this integration of methodologies in order to facilitate…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chin-Wen Chien – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
This study investigated 11 Taiwanese elementary school English teachers' designs and implementations of design thinking lessons. The analysis of qualitative data (lesson plans, observations, interviews) and quantitative data (questionnaire) reached the following major findings. Firstly, English teachers considered their design thinking instruction…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  24