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Fatma Seyma Koç; Perihan Savas – TESL-EJ, 2024
This meta-synthesis reviewed and synthesized the findings of 53 studies on supervisory post-conferences and feedback with a total of 807 participants published between 2004-2023. The aim of this meta-synthesis was to illustrate the trends in the reviewed studies and synthesize the results of the studies on supervisory discourse and models of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Piyanuch Laosrirattanachai; Piyapong Laosrirattanachai – TESL-EJ, 2024
Mastery of the art of crafting online reviews and responses is essential as a valuable additional tool for enhancing learners' English proficiency in specialised contexts. This study aims to: 1) Examine the formality levels in crafting reviews and responses; 2) Explore face-threatening acts utilised in reviews and politeness strategies employed in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Speech Acts, Pragmatics, English (Second Language)
Xiao Han – TESL-EJ, 2024
Within the communicative language teaching approach, current instructional materials often lack explicit guidance or fail to provide L2 learners with a wide range of resources in the target language. Conversation analysis (CA), which focuses on authentic talk, has been proposed as a potential resource for language classrooms. This study examines…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Werner, Valentin – TESL-EJ, 2020
English-language, and especially US-American TV series have been identified as a major point of contact with the target language for learners of English as a Foreign Language, and the discourse represented there constitutes authentic material that is easily accessible. While the potential of using TV discourse in language education has been widely…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Second Language Learning
Dendenne, Boudjemaa – TESL-EJ, 2021
In this study, we examined the use of compliments, self-praise, and self-denigration, as exchanged among nonnative English users. This was part of participation in an online cross-cultural exchange project (Ibunka 2019), which involved learners from six countries (Algeria, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Netherlands). The aim of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Speech Acts
Balikçi, Gözde; Daloglu, Aysegül – TESL-EJ, 2016
This case study was conducted in order to observe and investigate the critical reading discourse (CRD) of 27 freshman pre-service teachers of English at the department of foreign language teaching at a state university in Turkey. In addition, the study attempts to answer the question of how the critical reading discourse of the students is shaped…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies
Dávila, Liv Thorstensson – TESL-EJ, 2015
This article examines high school teachers' engagement of newcomer English learner students' prior knowledge. Three central research questions guided this study: 1) To what extent do teachers function as mediators of their students' prior knowledge? 2) What goes into teachers' thinking about how and when to elicit prior knowledge? and 3) How do…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Kuo, Jun-min – TESL-EJ, 2015
This study explores an activity designed to promote critical literacy in Taiwan. This activity had 23 college students perform different exercises all stressing the theme of self-identity as presented in a picture book and other learning sources. Data included classroom observations, reflection entries from the researcher-instructor, classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Worksheets, Student Attitudes
Nishino, Takako – TESL-EJ, 2012
This study investigates the professional development of one EFL teacher, Gen, through narrative analysis and the notion of community of practice (CoP) (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998). This study addresses two questions: (1) How did a Japanese high school teacher generate context-appropriate pedagogy?; and (2) How did multi-membership in…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Communities of Practice, Second Language Learning
Andrew, Martin – TESL-EJ, 2012
This study investigates the value of community experience for mediating linguistic practice and cultural learning. Learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL), both immigrants and international students, frequently report difficulties in practicing English outside the classroom (Wright, 2006). Grounded in poststructuralist social identity…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Socialization, Females, Second Language Learning
Ishihara, Noriko – TESL-EJ, 2011
While some recent pioneering work (e.g., Eslami-Rasekh, 2005; Eslami & Eslami-Rasekh, 2008; Yates & Wigglesworth, 2005) has begun to investigate the effects of instructional pragmatics in teacher education, little has been explored in depth as to the way in which teacher cognition develops in the classroom discourse of language teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Learning Theories, Seminars, Case Studies
Piriyasilpa, Yupaporn – TESL-EJ, 2009
Writing in English is often a problem for EFL learners in part because students may translate literally from their L1, and also because they may organise their writing by focusing on the grammatical structure at the level of clause or sentence. However, many studies argue that language is meaningful at a unit larger than a clause or sentence…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sentences, Grammar, Language of Instruction
Devadason, Iris – TESL-EJ, 2008
This article describes teacher research in an EAP context, teaching English for theology at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India, an international, liberal, and ecumenical institution. Conceptually grounded in the theory and practice of genre teaching, and discourse analysis of large pieces of texts such as the thesis, inspired by…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Philosophy, English for Special Purposes
Celce-Murcia, Marianne – TESL-EJ, 2007
This paper first discusses why the sentence-level drills still being used extensively in the teaching of grammar to second language learners have not been successful. What follows is a presentation of an innovative approach; namely, using context and discourse to present and practice grammar in more authentic and effective ways.
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Fitze, Michael; McGarrell, Hedy M. – TESL-EJ, 2008
This repeated-measures, counter-balanced study reports on a comparison of quantity and quality of one teacher's language in face-to-face (FTF) and written electronic (WE) discussions with advanced English as a Subsequent Language (ESL) students. Transcripts from the two types of discussions were compared for complexity of teacher input and the…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication
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