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Nathan Thomas Ducker – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Language learners are often required to negotiate classroom participation in pair and group work; therefore, willingness to communicate (WTC) could be a key determiner of second language (L2) success. Classroom WTC is volatile and influenced by interlocutor-related variables, such as reciprocal identities, group membership and atmosphere, and peer…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
Botes, Elouise; Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Greiff, Samuel – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Emotions in foreign language (FL) learning have become an increasingly popular research avenue in applied linguistics. Such research is often carried out using linear correlational or regression methods, which are limited in the extent to which they can depict interrelations. In this study, we aimed to reexamine the relationships between the…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Self Concept, Correlation, Second Language Learning
Ducker, Nathan Thomas – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Willingness to communicate (WTC) is an important individual learner difference that can help account for varying rates of language-learning success across individuals. As learner talk is considered to be a key pedagogical activity, instructors and researchers often strive to identify and manipulate key variables that will increase and arouse a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer), Classroom Communication
Tuma, František; Kääntä, Leila; Jakonen, Teppo – Modern Language Journal, 2023
This article examines how second language (L2) interactional competence is manifested in students' use of "and"-prefaced turns when doing meaning-focused oral tasks in pairs and small groups. Drawing on video recordings from English-as-a-foreign-language upper-secondary classes recorded in Czechia and Finland, 86 sequences involving…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Guerrettaz, Anne Marie – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Materials use is a critical yet poorly understood dynamic of language classrooms. This study examines 'materials-in-action,' meaning how materials shape classroom interaction and activity, in a beginning-level French-as-a-foreign-language classroom. The conceptual framework, 'pedagogical ergonomics,' similarly centers on materials-in-action, and…
Descriptors: French, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Theodorsdottor, Gudrun – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This article argues for a reconceptualization of the concept of "corrective feedback" for the investigation of correction practices in everyday second language (L2) interaction ("in the wild"). Expanding the dataset for L2 research as suggested by Firth and Wagner (1997) to include interactions from the wild has consequences…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Error Correction
Matsumoto, Yumi – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This qualitative study examines moments in the multilingual classroom when materials become prominent in whole-class interactions. Despite the critical impact that materials can have on classroom discourse and learning/teaching, research on "actual usage" of materials in second language (L2) classroom interactions has been scarce…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Worksheets
Kim, Miso; Canagarajah, Suresh – Modern Language Journal, 2021
South Korean job seekers face pressure to produce high scores on standardized English tests, which leads to the prominence of test-oriented pedagogy. Though recent scholarship illustrates how materials reflect the values of society and how these are negotiated in classrooms it has mainly analyzed preexisting published books, leaving the potential…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
Qin, Kongji – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This article examines the relationship between language curriculum and learners' subjectivity through a poststructuralist perspective. I use performativity theory to highlight the constituting power of language and integrate it with critical race theory to understand the relationships among curriculum, classroom interaction, and subjectivity…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Immigrants, Correlation
Yang, Xueyan; Tao, Xin – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This case study compares the discourse behaviors of 2 Chinese teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), one rated high and one rated low by their respective students. The teachers were each audio-recorded for a total of 100 minutes during the 'text session' of an Intensive Reading course. Drawing on Yang's (2010) model of EFL classroom…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
Thoms, Joshua J. – Modern Language Journal, 2014
This article analyzes whole-class discussions between a teacher and her students in a Latin American Colonial literature course at the college level. The study is theoretical-exploratory in nature in that it (a) articulates theoretical assumptions inherent in an ecological perspective on second language learning and teaching and (b) attempts to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literature, Teaching Methods
Pomerantz, Anne; Bell, Nancy D. – Modern Language Journal, 2011
Analyses of second language (L2) classroom interaction often categorize joking and other humorous talk by students as disruptive, off-task behavior, thereby rendering it important only from a classroom management perspective. Studies of language play, however, have illustrated that such jocular talk not only allows students to construct a broader…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Humor, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Toth, Paul D. – Modern Language Journal, 2011
This study compares descriptive quantitative and qualitative data from 2 beginning, university-level second-language (L2) Spanish classes to demonstrate the benefits of teacher-led discourse organized as collaborative, whole-class tasks. In class, the teacher solicited target L2 forms through conversational questions to individuals with recasted…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cognitive Processes, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis
Smotrova, Tetyana; Lantolf, James P. – Modern Language Journal, 2013
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the mediational function of the gesture-speech interface in the instructional conversation that emerged as teachers attempted to explain the meaning of English words to their students in two EFL classrooms in the Ukraine. Its analytical framework is provided by Vygotsky's sociocultural psychology…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Nonverbal Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Burnett, Joanne – Modern Language Journal, 2011
This qualitative study followed two graduates from a master of arts in the teaching of languages program, who had taught for at least 3 years, into their domain of work in public school teaching. The study was carried out to better understand the day-to-day work, challenges, and social and interactive contexts in which language teachers engage. It…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Teacher Education Programs