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Mahawaha, Nadee; Rassool, Romola – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Although bilingual education has been offered in some schools of Sri Lanka since 2001, primary and secondary school education has been conducted mainly in the first language (L1), that is, Sinhala/Tamil. As a result, most students sit for the General Certificate of Education -- Advanced Level (GCE (A/L) examination, which determines university…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Native Language, Dravidian Languages
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Sánchez-Pérez, María del Mar – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study analyzes the influence of English medium instruction (EMI) on student English writing development in a Spanish undergraduate context, a language skill that remains underexplored in EMI research at tertiary level. Through a longitudinal pre- and post-test method, it explores the writing progress of EMI engineering students as compared to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Language of Instruction, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)
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Zhou, Sihan; Thompson, Gene – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Listening to academic content in English medium instruction (EMI) classrooms at university can be a demanding task for students who transition from first language (L1) instructed secondary schools. This longitudinal mixed methods study analyzes data from 316 students collected at the beginning, midterm, and the end of their first semester after…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Longitudinal Studies, English for Academic Purposes
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Hong, Jiye – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
To date, very limited research interest has been given to the strategies English medium instruction (EMI) teachers or lecturers deploy to provide corrective feedback (CF) on the language use to their students during class interaction. In other words, when EMI teachers incidentally focus on students' problematic language use, how do they correct it…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nguyen, An – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
One key objective of English medium instruction (EMI) programs in non-Anglophone countries is to improve students' English skills in both academic and professional environments. Despite the high cost and the popularity of the program policy, there remains a lack of empirical studies on the link between attending an EMI program and students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Socioeconomic Influences
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Krulatz, Anna; Dixon, Tülay – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The present paper describes a contrastive study of interlanguage refusal strategies employed by Korean and Norwegian learners of English as an additional language. The data were collected from multilingual first-year students at an American university in South Korea and in an English-medium program at a Norwegian university by means of an online…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lu, Cailing; Boers, Frank; Coxhead, Averil – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study explores English for specific purposes learners' understanding of technical words in a previously-developed technical word list in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principal aim was to estimate what kind of technical terms pose problems to TCM learners and might therefore merit special attention in instruction. Of particular…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Tatzl, Dietmar – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Empirical evaluations of practical teaching units integrating content and language in higher education are rare and deserve more attention. The current article aims to narrow this gap by providing an empirical study of an integrating content and language in higher education (ICLHE, Smit & Dafouz, 2012) teaching module. It investigates the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Course Content, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Cebron, Neva – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents the core aims and objectives of the teaching materials developed within the IEREST (Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers) project, and shows how the innovative approach adopted for these activities can be implemented in the classroom. The IEREST teaching modules are innovative in that the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Muñoz de Cote, Luz María; van Dijk, Sylvia – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research project set to investigate the piloting process of an innovative language program for university students. It challenges traditional English language teaching courses celebrating a view centered on learning; classes become spaces for students to understand the language they are learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research, College Students