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Claudia M. Cabrera – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reclassification is a crucial educational student outcome when a school system determines that a student is English proficient and ready for mainstream instruction without language support services (Umansky et al., 2020). This study examined the relationship between crucial and complex language ideologies of dual language teachers and the…
Descriptors: Classification, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Mei-Rong Alice Chen – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
The increase in popularity of Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots, or GACs, has created a potentially fruitful opportunity to enhance teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study investigated the possibility of using GACs to give EFL students metalinguistic guidance (MG) in linguistics courses. Language competency gaps, a lack…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Transformative Learning, English (Second Language), Artificial Intelligence
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Elizabeth Machin; Elsa Tragant – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
The present study seeks to offer insights into how former study abroad students, temporally beyond the period of initial re-entry into their home environments, perceive Spanish as a foreign language in their lives now. This post-sojourn period is explored within the framework of the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2009) and the expanded…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pirae Kim – English Teaching, 2023
The present study explores the educational potential of multiliteracies-based pedagogy to enhancing pre-service teachers' creativity-convergence competency in an EFL literature classroom. To examine the pedagogical effect, both quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed, including the pre- and post- creativity-convergence competency tests,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods, Creativity, Second Language Learning
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Sarah Fehrman – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2022
This design case follows the transformation of a language and culture course for first-year international students from face-to-face to online. It focuses on creating and managing disorienting dilemmas in an online environment as students are given the opportunity to pursue transformative learning. Design decisions about creating community, course…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Barriers, Second Language Learning
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Zarbafian, Azadeh; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Mohseni, Ahmad; Baradaran, Abdollah – Cogent Education, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the Iranian EFL students and their teachers' perceptions of the factors involved in the implementation of Transformative Education (TE). More importantly, the focus was on investigating the feasibility of the integration of TE with Dynamic Assessment (DA) in the Iranian EFL setting. To do so, 105 Iranian university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning
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Lê, Ni-La; Hinestroza, José Martínez; Kraus, Erika B.; Hassan, Azad; Plough, India C. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
This article interprets teachers as change agents in light of the Transformational Teaching (TT) framework (Slavich & Zimbardo, 2012). Contributing to the understanding of teachers' transformation, we report on a case study that explores how of a graduate student's conceptualization of and engagement with the core methods of TT emerged and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Transformative Learning
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Housel, David A. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
While conducting a qualitative, semi-structured interview study that investigated the role of program administrators and managers in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), the author encountered a TESOL professional whose 30-year career as an instructor, administrator, and owner of her own language school was so…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning
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Quintero Polo, Álvaro Hernán – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
In this article the author reports on a study of some English language student-teachers' trans-formations of knowledge about language education. The question that guided the study was: How are English language student-teachers' formative pedagogical and research experiences portrayed in a transformative and critical outlook for initial teacher…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Teachers
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Lee, Kean Wah; James, Cynthia C. – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
A 21st century teacher must communicate in the language and style of their students to ensure that their learning is meaningful. However, this is challenging, especially for teachers who are less familiar with using technology in teaching. To inspire a group of ESL 'digital immigrant' teachers, a professional learning community (PLC) was set up.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Faculty Development, 21st Century Skills, Technology Integration
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Lau, Sunny Man Chu – New Educator, 2016
The present study, framed from a critical and transformative approach to teacher education, aims to investigate whether language portraits (Prasad, 2010)--the mapping of one's language and cultural make-up on a body template--can help improve student teachers' self-understanding about language and identities and can foster critical reflection…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Concept Mapping, Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Background
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Chang, Yueh-ching – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
Adopting a qualitative case study methodology, the present study illuminates how two multilingual students enrolled in a U.S. community college ESL class negotiated the sociocultural norms valued in their multiple communities to make investment in learning English in college. Drawing on Gee's theory of Discourse and identity (1996) and Norton's…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Nuske, Kyle – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2015
Considering the prominent position of critical work in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, there is a need for detailed investigations of apprentice practitioners' formative interactions with critical ideas in graduate programs and how these affect their willingness to cultivate their own critical pedagogical repertories. Adopting a case study design,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Viafara González, John Jairo; Ariza Ariza, J. Aleida – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
Colombian English as a foreign language student teachers' opportunities to grow as educators through international sojourns do not usually subsume the traditional study and residence abroad goal. This was the case for our participants who engaged mainly in working abroad with study being ancillary. Fifty student teachers from two public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Davidson Devall, Kelly – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2015
The framework of perspective transformation (Mezirow, 1994) provides a rich context for the conceptualization of technology use in language and culture learning. Although others have focused on the processes of becoming interculturally competent (Taylor, 1994) and changing language structures (Foster, 1997), more exploration of how technology aids…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness, Web 2.0 Technologies