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Jordão, Clarissa?Menezes – ELT Journal, 2023
This article starts from a comment on my locus of enunciation (i.e., the context from which I?speak), a key element of decoloniality as a means of resisting the idea of disembodied knowledge or neutrality promoted by modernity/coloniality. I?then proceed to explain how I?understand the entanglement of modernity and coloniality and why we need to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Decolonization, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Brooke R. Schreiber; Mihiri Jansz – ELT Journal, 2025
Despite a growing body of research demonstrating the pluralistic nature of English today, ELT globally still tends to uphold traditional 'native-speaker' norms. A Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) approach to teacher education is one way of breaking down that gap, yet it is not well known how the effects of this approach might hold up over…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Vanessa De Wilde – ELT Journal, 2024
The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to the wider public could have a huge impact on EFL learning and teaching. Researchers have voiced concerns that learners might lean too much on technology. Previous studies have investigated the use of AI tools in L2 writing with various populations and found that it was difficult for…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers, Identification, Artificial Intelligence
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Sarah Mercer; Nayr Correia?Ibrahim; Katherine Bilsborough; Ceri Jones; Chiara Potzinger – ELT Journal, 2023
In this article, we report on a mixed-methods study which investigated teachers' attitudes towards and experiences with teaching environmental issues within their ELT classes. Given the rising importance of ecoliteracy and its inclusion as a transversal learning objective for all subjects in many national state curricula, it is critically…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tammy Gregersen; Peter MacIntyre – ELT Journal, 2024
Although positive psychology (PP) is characterized as a tripartite approach to human flourishing that considers emotions, traits, and institutions, to date the role of institutions has been relatively overlooked. This is particularly problematic when exploring language teacher wellbeing because a teacher's ability to thrive is also dependent upon…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Austin Pack; Tamas Kiss – ELT Journal, 2023
Learner motivation is an essential ingredient for successful language learning. This article investigates the motivating and demotivating factors affecting the motivation of fifty-eight EAP learners' L2 learning. Guided by complex dynamic systems theory, with a dual focus on both what factors are important and what role these play in the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language)
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Sagun Shrestha; Suman Laudari; Laxman Gnawali – ELT Journal, 2023
The number of reports and publications about exploratory action research (EAR) has been increasing in recent years; however, there is still a dearth of studies that examine its effectiveness for improving teaching and learning. This study explores Nepalese EFL teachers' perceptions of EAR, the ways they explored their classroom issues, and how…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Tong Zhang; Zhenjie Weng – ELT Journal, 2024
Rubrics are often used as scoring tools in evaluating student writing performance. Although there is a considerable amount of research on the use of rubrics in ESL writing instruction, little attention has been paid to studies of engaging students in rubric co-construction in the ELT context. This study investigates the implementation of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics, English (Second Language)
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Savski, Kristof – ELT Journal, 2023
Over the last two decades, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has become ubiquitous in ELT. In this article, I consider how differences in the way in which the framework is being interpreted by different powerful actors, including governments and for-profit organizations, affect its usability for ELT practitioners, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Guidelines
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Daniela Ramírez-Orellana; Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros; Belen Cáceres-Ramírez – ELT Journal, 2023
This qualitative case study first examined middle school teacher perceptions of practice regarding L2 listening instruction and, from these, proposes guidelines to favour L2 listening development. Novice middle-school teachers from Chile (n = 14) were guided within semi-structured interviews to reflect on their own L2 listening teaching practices…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kim, Miso – ELT Journal, 2023
This article adopts a sociomaterial perspective on ELT materials and illustrates how a mandatory textbook is used as a springboard to create decolonizing relations in the classroom ecology. Sociomaterial perspectives view learning as not the transmission but the emergence of knowledge from embodied relations, which shifts the focus from the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Osman Solmaz – ELT Journal, 2023
This cross-sectional study attempts to investigate the impacts of linguistic landscape (LL) tasks on EFL teacher candidates' understanding of English in local and global contexts. To this end, three cohorts of student teachers carried out LL fieldwork, uploaded images of English signage to an LL application, Lingscape, and submitted a mini…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Teacher Education Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mercer, Sarah – ELT Journal, 2021
Well-being is a basic human right according to the World Health Organization. It is the foundation of a life well lived and ought to be the basis of all educational endeavours and encounters. In this article, I urge ELT to make well-being a priority for research and practice. I make three main points. Firstly, we need to be serious in defining and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Shanshan Yang; Masatoshi Sato; Dingfang Shu; Beilei Wang – ELT Journal, 2024
This study explored how secondary school EFL teachers engaged in professional learning opportunities when they participated in the development of ELT materials. While increasing research has examined language teaching materials and teacher learning, the two research fields have remained largely disconnected, hindering the potential of materials…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Zhou, Xiaozhou – ELT Journal, 2023
Translanguaging and codeswitching are frequently employed in second/foreign language classrooms. Though the differences between these two practices have been examined from a conceptual perspective, the potential of translanguaging as a pedagogical resource has not been empirically addressed. This article opens with a concise comparison of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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