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Yang, Eun Chong; Frank, Michele; Jeanmougin, Caitlin; Meyers, Karen; Olszewski, Arnold; Shi, Haifei; Simonsen, Russell; Siriwardane, Harshini – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
Critical thinking (CT) is widely viewed as an essential skill for college students. Nevertheless, the use of CT skills in the classroom often varies across disciplines. This article summarizes perceptions of CT, including various definitions and constructs as well as barriers to its implementation in higher education. Faculty members from various…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, College Students, Definitions, Barriers
Zhang, Yuxiong – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2022
The present study aimed to investigate the ownership and usage of Tablets among Chinese foreign language students. Adopted a quantitative approach, this research was considered a case study with exploratory nature. The data were collected from a self-reported questionnaire between May 31st and June 6th, and 276 valid responses were analyzed…
Descriptors: Tablet Computers, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning
Gregory J. Heathco – Communication Teacher, 2025
University classrooms are increasingly populated by students with diverse nationalities and native languages (L1). The growing number of students in English-led classrooms who speak English as a second or lower language (L2) may face added difficulties in understanding the specific task objectives or directions, as explained by native-…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing
Jamil, Md Golam – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This article arose in response to the recent impetus for embedding inquiry-based approaches in higher education. It draws upon the perceptions of students and faculty members regarding inquiry-based education in Academic English (AE) programmes at universities in Bangladesh within an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Research-informed…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Baumgartner, Karin; Brown, Connor; Demschar, Isabel; Rellaford, David; Tanner, Keaton; Thomas, Alyssa – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2022
The article discusses a year-long outreach activity, "Sparking interest in German." Five University of Utah German students engaged in the AATG/Goethe-Institut-sponsored SPARK program and taught German to local middle schoolers. At the heart of this outreach project were questions such as whether student-run outreach programs could truly…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, Outreach Programs, Student Interests
Benavides, Jorge Eliecer – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This article analyzes the results of the Saber Pro, the state exam for students completing higher education, during 2007-2017 concerning the English language section. This analysis uses the reports and databases from the Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación (ICFES) repository and explains the policy in its historical context.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Musthofa, Tulus – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is an international standard to measure learners' language abilities on a six-point scale, A1 for beginners up to C2 for those who have mastered a language. this study attempted to examine the implementation of the CEFR policy in learning Arabic in Indonesia at al levels, beginning form curriculum…
Descriptors: Arabic, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhang, Jianfeng – English Language Teaching, 2020
Based on collaborative communication, reciprocal learning, and knowledge sharing, the college English online learning community, which is a kind of effective online learning method, can help to build knowledge construction and innovation. Therefore, from analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation, ADDIE model is utilized to…
Descriptors: Models, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ren, Junhong; Wang, Na – English Language Teaching, 2018
Absence of critical thinking skills is perceived to be a growing problem among many university students. The production-oriented approach, an initiative to college English instruction reform in mainland China, may offer a better solution to this problem. To cultivate critical thinking skills under this approach, reforms have to be implemented in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language)
Lamazares, Alexander – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
This research study examines the pedagogical considerations and linguistic challenges regarding teaching Portuguese to speakers of Spanish. That the Portuguese language is similar to Spanish presents a unique set of advantages and challenges to students and instructors. The study of this population of students has grown considerably since the…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Köksal, Dinçay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives plays a crucial role in developing assessments that measure higher and lower level cognitive skills. Since it is important to assess how well students master the information within the levels of the taxonomy, the present study first presents the higher and lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy and…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Velázquez, Virna; Garcia-Ponce, Edgar Emmanuell – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
The present article reports on a study that set out to investigate the effectiveness of strategies and decisions formulated in foreign language planning to ensure learners' language achievement in a higher education context which trains learners to become English or French teachers or translators. By drawing on data collected from simulated…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation, Teacher Education Programs
Bouabdallah, Naima; Bouyacoub, Mohammed Cherif – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2017
Language for specific purposes reveals some specificities quite complex to grasp and make use of, if not an explicit knowledge and an appropriate approach to the situation at hand is devoted to its teaching. This is why, it has been the study that goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and from its earliest days has caught the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Li, Huiyin – English Language Teaching, 2016
This article performs an exploratory study of the newly formulated "Guidelines" for College English Teaching ("Draft Exposure")("2015")("Guidelines"), aiming at exploring how different the latest Guidelines is from the previous ones, what challenges it brings to teachers and how these challenges can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Eser, Oktay – Online Submission, 2014
At the department of foreign language teaching, a variety of courses are offered in order for students to acquire translation competence. The courses are often carried out by translating a text from one language into the other. Learning by experience is an effective approach. However, it is inevitable that there are some aspects that we need to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation, Foreign Countries