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Cabezas, Erickzon D. Astorga; Beltran, Paulina Bahamondes – English Language Teaching, 2021
Over several decades, numerous approaches applied to EFL have resulted in theories and reasonings to teach and learn English. Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the most commonly used path nowadays, it has only resulted in minimal development of university learners' oral skills; i.e., English-beginner-level students usually attain…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nagao, Akiko – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study applied a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) model to explore how 27 first-year university students in two different English proficiency groups improved their lexicogrammatical choices and metafunctions for writing analytical exposition essays during a 15-week course. To explore how "the teaching learning cycle" influences…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Kato, Makiko – English Language Teaching, 2022
English teachers, especially those who teach summary writing to students with relatively lower proficiency in English face difficulty in teaching summary writing and while assessing their students' performances. In the classroom context, an analytic rubric is pedagogically more helpful than a holistic rubric because the teacher can confirm the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Language Proficiency
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Qoura, Ali A.; Zahran, Faten A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the 6+1 trait writing model on ESP university students' critical thinking and writing achievement. It was assumed that students who receive training using the 6+1 trait writing model would reveal greater gains in critical thinking and writing achievement. Six instruments -designed by the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Models, English for Special Purposes
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Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong; Nicoletti, Kathleen – English Language Teaching, 2020
Encouraged by previous studies which recommended incorporating insights from Conversation Analysis (CA) into English conversation teaching to improve EFL students' oral proficiency, this paper reports on the findings from Phase I of a longitudinal study designed to investigate the impact of employing a CA-informed teaching (CA-T) model to improve…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
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El Mortaji, Latifa – English Language Teaching, 2018
Research on impact of sustained impromptu speaking on public speaking competency development is scarce and lacking. The researcher investigated Moroccan college students' public speaking competency development through extemporaneous (i.e. carefully prepared and rehearsed) speech performance, after implementation of a teaching strategy involving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Speaking, Goal Orientation, English (Second Language)