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Ngubane, Nomalungelo I.; Ntombela, Berrington; Govender, Samantha – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: The teaching of writing in English First Additional Language (EFAL) classrooms remains less explored in the Further Education and Training Phase (FET) in South Africa. This is so despite research showing a decline in the writing skills of second language learners, especially at the FET phase, calling attention to how writing is taught.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, School Districts, Code Switching (Language)
Escandon, Arturo; Sanz, Montserrat – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal study in which two instructional methods to teach agreement features to first-year university students specializing in Spanish in Japan are compared. On the one hand, the control group was exposed to the traditional top-down teaching of agreement paradigms and were instructed to practice them…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Schemata (Cognition), Intervention
Lai, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The dissertation investigates the effect of a concept-based approach to teaching the Chinese temporal system to English-speaking university learners at the elementary level. The pedagogical framework, Systematic-Theoretical Instruction (STI), adopted in this study was proposed by Piotr Gal'perin and originated from Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Concept Formation, Second Language Instruction