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Download full textAlshammari, Reem Fuhaid – English Language Teaching, 2022
The main aim of the present study is to develop first year university students' meta-cognitive reading comprehension using inquiry-based learning strategy. Subjects of the study were 106 (53 males, 53 females) first year university students enrolled in two classrooms at colleges representing urban and sub-urban areas in Shaqra University. The…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Metacognition, Pretests Posttests
Nan, Chengyu – English Language Teaching, 2015
The value of grammar instruction in foreign language learning and teaching has been a focus of debate for quite some time, which has resulted in different views on grammar and grammar teaching as well as different teaching approaches based on different perspectives or in different language learning contexts. To explore some modes for grammar…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Wadi, Hasan Mohsen – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present study investigates the effects of implementing an inquiry-based teaching technique on motivating EFL/ESL student teachers to learn an English content-based course and to become critical toward the knowledge they are exposed to in this course. A quasi-experimental methodology of research was implemented through the one independent group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Shamsudin, Mardziah; Othman, Moomala; Jahedi, Maryam; Aralas, Dalia – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study investigated the impact of two instructional methods, Debate and Philosophy Inquiry (PI), in enhancing Willingness to Communicate (WTC) among two groups of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners who were randomly selected. In each group there were sixteen participants. The researchers used independent samples t-test and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Philosophy
Méndez Rivera, Pilar; Pérez Gómez, Francisco – English Language Teaching, 2017
The role of an inquiry-based practicum in the education of future teachers has been identified as a key component to foster student-teachers' abilities to face problems, try to solve them, work on doubts and produce situated and valuable learning from their own practices (Cochran-Smith & Little, 2001; Beck, 2001). The interaction between…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Inquiry, Practicums, Student Projects
Zhang, Jianfeng – English Language Teaching, 2013
Autonomous inquiry learning is a kind of learning model, which relies mainly on learners and emphasizes that learners should inquire knowledge actively; moreover, ESP, which emphasizes the combination of language learning and specific purposes learning, is a goal-oriented and well targeted instruction system. Therefore, ESP and autonomous inquiry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Roux, Ruth; Valladares, Jorge Luis Mendoza – English Language Teaching, 2014
The effective implementation of any educational reform is largely dependent on the preparation of teachers. In the case of the National English Program in Basic Education, (NEPBE) implemented in public schools in Mexico in 2009, teacher preparation options have been designed by both public and private higher education institutions in several…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
