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Mohammad Amin Zarei; Goudarz Alibakhshi; Behzad Nezakatgoo – TESOL Journal, 2024
Language classroom anxiety is a significant concern for applied linguists and English language teachers. As an affective variable, foreign language anxiety has the potential to harm learners' language learning and performance. While the impact of language anxiety on the academic achievement of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) has…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Coping
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Nhlanhla Mpofu – TESOL Journal, 2024
In 2013, as a strategy to enhance academic performance, the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) published several English Across the Curriculum (EAC) manuals to guide in-service teachers who did not have prior knowledge of how to integrate the teaching of content subjects with language learning. The DBE introduced the EAC strategy as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Medlock Paul, Casey; Vehabovic, Nermin – TESOL Journal, 2020
In this article the researchers explain a concept that they have termed "critical biliteracy instruction." Utilizing a sociocultural approach to literacy and language learning, they examine discourse theory and the four resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) to support the approaches they describe. Then they explore research-based…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Discourse Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Wei – TESOL Journal, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) require students to read and comprehend complex content texts. They specify three dimensions of a text that simultaneously contribute to text complexity across the curriculum: qualitative dimensions, quantitative dimensions, and reader and task considerations. In literacy instruction, recognizing and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Common Core State Standards, Reading Comprehension
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De Oliveira, Luciana C. – TESOL Journal, 2011
This article contributes to the literature on nonnative-English-speaking (NNES) teachers by providing specific ways in which they can use their nonnative status in the classroom and in their professional work in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). Drawing on the author's own experiences as an English learner, she…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Educational Strategies, Second Language Instruction
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Cummins, Jim – TESOL Journal, 1998
The e-Lective Language Learning System is designed to promote language learning by incorporating target-language text and a variety of first- and second-language dictionary and learning-strategy supports into a multimedia CD-ROM design. Any text in electronic form can be imported into the system. It differs from conventional computer-assisted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Content, Courseware, Educational Strategies