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Sin Wang Chong; Hayo Reinders – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Learner autonomy is a vibrant and diverse field. In its approximately 40-year history, it has drawn liberally on theoretical constructs and research methodologies from other disciplines. In turn, it has contributed to the field of applied linguistics by drawing attention to the fundamental importance of understanding the language learner as an…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language), English Learners, Educational Research
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Yachao Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Translingual pedagogies have been proposed and implemented to respond to the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in today's classrooms. However, the findings of translingual pedagogies on English as an additional language (EAL) writing vary from facilitating to undermining teaching and learning. To understand the empirical landscape of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vitta, Joseph P.; Al-Hoorie, Ali H. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Flipped learning has become a popular approach in various educational fields, including second language teaching. In this approach, the conventional educational process is reversed so that learners do their homework and prepare the material before going to class. Class time is then devoted to practice, discussion, and higher-order thinking tasks…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Second Language Learning, Conventional Instruction, Age Differences
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Kelly Moser; Tianlan Wei – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The insufficient supply of K-12 language - world language (WL) and English as a second language (ESL) - teachers in the United States has been a pervasive challenge for school administrators seeking to provide language learning opportunities for their students. The issue is complex - including numerous factors that adversely affect the recruitment…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Supply and Demand, English (Second Language)
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Shulin Yu; Yiran Zhang; Chunhong Liu; Icy Lee – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Research on second language (L2) writing tends to focus much more on student learning of writing than teachers' teaching and learning of the teaching of writing. While a few studies have considered the influence of formal education on teachers' L2 writing instruction, such as by examining the changes in teacher beliefs and practices across one…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Private Education
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Spenader, Allison J.; Wesely, Pamela M.; Glynn, Cassandra – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Content-based instruction (CBI) is a pedagogical approach used in the second/other language classroom that commits to addressing both language- and content-learning objectives. Scholars have found that, particularly in the planning stages, teachers struggle with achieving that balance (Donato, 2016; Lyster, 2007). This study examines world…
Descriptors: Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The study reported in this article was aimed at investigating whether making the findings of second language fluency research accessible to language teachers has an impact on their self-reported understanding of the concept of oral fluency, confidence in promoting it, and classroom practice in short and medium term. The data come from 106 initial…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Teemant, Annela – Language Teaching Research, 2020
New audiences, new theoretical understandings of cognitive development and teaching, and the moral imperative to reach all learners and teachers require reframing how we assess our effectiveness in ELT. In this article, I present four areas of LTE that require reframing: (1) Who we prepare (2) with what content (3) to competently participate in…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Guerrettaz, Anne Marie; Zahler, Tara; Sotirovska, Vera; Boyd, Ashley Summer – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Many US K-12 teachers in ethnolinguistically homogenous, rural areas are not adequately prepared to meet the needs of their English language learner (ELL) students. Such educators often lack conceptual understanding of language pedagogy and affective investment in ELLs. The field of language teacher education (LTE) needs research on how to better…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Kindergarten
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Krulatz, Anna; Steen-Olsen, Tove; Torgersen, Eivind – Language Teaching Research, 2018
This article reports the results of a school-based curriculum development project that aimed to support language teachers working with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations in Norway to develop teaching strategies that foster intercultural citizenship and multilingual competence. Three university researchers collaborated with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism, Workshops
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Ortega, Lourdes – Language Teaching Research, 2012
In this article I explore epistemological diversity in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) from the perspective that obtains if we examine the moral ends of research, and we ask: In what ways does epistemological diversity relate to enhancing the social value and educational relevance of the research generated by the instructed SLA…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Social Values, Epistemology, Research Utilization
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Tan, May – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents data from a study examining secondary mathematics teachers' and science teachers' implementation of a language of instruction policy in Malaysia, which made English the medium for mathematics and science instruction. It explores the beliefs of math, science and language teachers, and how these beliefs influence their…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers