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Ghanem, Carla – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The study explores the complexities associated with graduate language instructors' NS/NNS identities and teaching of culture. Researchers, who work mainly in the English as a Second/Foreign Language field, have been discussing this divide and have examined the advantages and disadvantages each group brings to the profession, but not the influence…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
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Yeldham, Michael; Gruba, Paul – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This study details the development of six second language learners in an English listening course that focused on developing their bottom-up listening skills. The research employed longitudinal multi-case studies to chart the development of these lower proficiency-level Taiwanese university learners, and their progress in the course was analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Listening Skills
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Kinginger, Celeste – Language Teaching Research, 2013
The assessment of second language (L2) pragmatic competence typically involves questionnaires, such as discourse completion tasks. This article describes a novel approach to using questionnaires to assess L2 metapragmatic capacities while simultaneously promoting their development: engaging learners in cooperative interaction as they complete the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Sociocultural Patterns
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Vasquez, Camilla; Harvey, Jane – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This article reports on a case study that examined the evolving thoughts and beliefs about corrective feedback of graduate students in applied linguistics, who were enrolled in a semester-long second language acquisition (SLA) course. Working in groups, the graduate students (students in an MA-TESL program, and doctoral students in a related…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Applied Linguistics, Error Correction
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Lamie, Judith M. – Language Teaching Research, 2004
The literature surrounding the process of curriculum innovation and change abounds with the assumption that change is a difficult, often painful and hugely complex process. It involves educational, political, national, institutional and personal issues. It challenges the very fabric of our society, and our roles not only as professionals, but as…
Descriptors: Innovation, Educational Change, Models, English Teachers
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Olshtain, Elite; Kupferberg, Irit – Language Teaching Research, 1998
Describes a case study and a follow-up comparative study that focused on expert foreign language teachers' professional knowledge as it was reflected in their spoken and written discourse. Both studies provide evidence indicating that professional knowledge can develop via its verbalization in reflective-narrative discourse from personal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis