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Naomi Flynn; Annela Teemant; Kara Mitchell Viesca; Ratha Perumal – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This convergent parallel mixed-method study (quan + QUAL) relies on systematic classroom observations of mainstream teachers considered highly effective with multilingual learners in the United Kingdom and the United States (N = 9). Using a critical sociocultural theoretical lens, we use an established quantitative observation rubric and lesson…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bateman, Amanda; Cekaite, Asta – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Globally, there has been increasing adaptation of curricula frameworks in early childhood education, providing overarching principles of practice rather than subject specific templates for teaching and learning. While such a movement is to be commended as supporting a socio-cultural approach in meeting each child's unique social and cultural…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Literacy Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Curriculum
Cortazzi, Martin; Jin, Lixian – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
This paper employs the innovative method of Elicited Metaphor Analysis to present original research in Malaysia into students' metaphors for 'language'. We summarize reasons why language and first/ second language learning are centrally important in education, and show patterned features of language metaphors in proverbs and in teacher talk about…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Korkealehto, Kirsi; Leier, Vera – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This research presents a virtual exchange project between two tertiary institutions in New Zealand and Finland with 26 participants who were intermediate German language students. During the project, the students used a closed Facebook group to post about given topics; the posts combined video, audio, and text that adhered to multimodal…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learner Engagement
Fearn, Lesley June – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is crucial in most secondary schools within the EU and many other schools worldwide. Some teachers are integrating Online Community Projects (OCPs) into their curricula to provide a means of communication that motivates learning and incites learner-centred methods. This collaborative Action Research study…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sirijanchuen, Natthaphong; Gampper, Chanika – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2018
The understanding of rhetorical move organization and academic citations is of paramount importance for novice scholars so that they know how to construct a quality research article introduction (RAI). This study is therefore an attempt to identify the ways in which the academic citations of the RAIs written by Thai and international scholars in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Vetere, Timothy Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation reports on a qualitative longitudinal study that explores the original conceptualization of drama-based instruction (DBI) in the L2 classroom among ten K-12 teacher-candidates in a language teacher preparation program. It gives particular attention to two case study participants as they continued to (re)conceptualize drama-based…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Drama, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Aleksic-Hajdukovic, Irena; Sinadinovic, Danka; Mijomanovic, Stevan – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This research aims to explore how English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers and practitioners utilise new technologies, e.g. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), webinars, online platforms, etc. as a means of self-scaffolding in order to exceed their threshold in pedagogical, linguistic, and discoursal competencies in various ESP domains. The…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
The Foreign Language Teaching Profession in Finnish and Japanese Society: A Sociocultural Comparison
Sarja, Anneli; Nyman, Tarja; Ito, Harumi; Jaatinen, Riitta – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
The social basis of a teaching profession is created through behavioural and cultural patterns, specific artefacts, and their connection to certain institutional practices. The purpose of this study is to discover the conditions that structure the teaching profession in a cultural context and to find out what it is to be a foreign language (FL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies
Quadros, Sabrina; Sarroub, Loukia K. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
The lack of research about the Karen, one of 135 ethnic groups from Myanmar limits literacy educators charged with educating this refugee population in public schools. In this case study the authors explore the literacy practices of Karen families when at school and in their homes and within an ESL family literacy program. The case of these…
Descriptors: Refugees, Memorization, English (Second Language), Literacy Education
Lavrenteva, Evgenia; Orland-Barak, Lily – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Teaching culture in the foreign language classroom has been widely debated ever since its importance was recognized. Current research suggests that centralized "top down" curricular policies can become potential constraints to teaching culture and points to the need for adapting curricula for culture-integrated language learning. This…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Gu, Mingyue; Benson, Phil – Language Teaching Research, 2015
Drawing on insights from Communities of Practice and critical discourse theory, this study investigates how teacher identities are discursively constructed in course of teacher education and under the influence of social structure. The participants were seven Hong Kong and nine mainland Chinese pre-service teachers. Two focus group interviews and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preservice Teachers
Lu, Hangyan; Luk, Jasmine – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
Informed by a social and critical turn of reading practices and a poststructuralist paradigm of gender, this study delved into the commonly held belief that reading and language learning is a feminine domain, and examined the connection between the construction of gendered subjectivities and English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) reading practices…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Stress Variables
Lundgren, Berit; Botha, Liz – Education Inquiry, 2010
The implication of reading competence in developing reflection and thinking is an important issue for student teachers to consider. Reading is also a competence, in which the language at the disposal of a person is included, to use for social development and mutual understanding. This article is based on a case study and is concerned with how some…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Thinking Skills, Student Teachers, Case Studies

Santoni, Georges V. – Foreign Language Annals, 1974
A great variety of authentic cultural elements may be introduced in the foreign language classroom, not at the expense of language learning but as an interrelated system. (Author)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Cross Cultural Studies, Culture Contact, French