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Mambu, Joseph Ernest – TESOL Journal, 2022
The current case study investigated how teacher-learners (TLs) in an Indonesia-based undergraduate English language teacher education program learned to apply critical pedagogy (CP) when co-constructing a critical English language teaching (ELT) curriculum with English language learners (ELLs). CP insights into ELT and second language teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Li, Zhan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This case study examines an under-explored domain of teaching, namely, teachers' use of curriculum materials to enact instructions. It focuses on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers' enactment of instructions through utilising prescribed textbooks in Higher Education (HE) in China. Drawing on interviews and lesson observations from two…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Linh Phung, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor; Vu Phi Ho Pham, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, initiated, and implemented in Vietnam and Cambodia. The region is responding to a large number of significant challenges, including…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Mahboob, Ahmar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
Currently, a growing number of teaching approaches focus on aspects of variation in language (e.g. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), World Englishes, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), genre theories, etc.); however, each of these approaches tends to focus on particular (specific) aspects of language variation and do not fully account for the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Banegas, Darío Luis – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This article describes part of a larger action research study carried out in 2018 with secondary school learners and teachers of English in southern Argentina. The study was guided by two aims: (1) improving English language learner motivation, and (2) transforming the English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum through teacher and learner…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Li, Zhan; Harfitt, Gary James – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
This paper examines a ubiquitous yet under-studied area of language pedagogy, namely materials usage. It explores teachers' enactment of curriculum materials by focusing on English language education (ELE) teachers' use of prescribed textbooks to plan and deliver lessons at the tertiary level in Mainland China. A qualitative multi-case study…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Case Studies, Material Development, Faculty Development
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Abbasi, Zahra; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib; Heidari, Mina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Impact of using Supplementary books alongside the national academic text book has received great attention of the curriculum and material developers. Since the beginning of language studies, Second & Foreign Language Acquisition (SLA & FLA) researchers have been searching for effective ways of improving learners' language skills. This…
Descriptors: Supplementary Reading Materials, Experimental Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Belfrom, Clelia C. – Florida FL Reporter, 1969
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs, Language Programs
Coste, Daniel, Comp. – 1983
A collection of 14 papers covers aspects of second language instruction in European nations. Among the topics addressed are: (1) European curriculum, syllabus, and textbook construction projects; (2) the development of a beginning French curriculum for Greek adults; (3) a German course on English for the tourist trade; (4) an English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Material Development
Berna, Joan; Alkasab, Helen – 1975
The purpose of Special Project E-109A, Development of Teaching Aids for Adult Basic Education/English (Second Language) (ABE/ESL) Adult Education Programs, was to develop skill packets consisting of visual materials, teacher manuals, and student work sheets for statewide use in ABE/ESL classes in Illinois. The project was conducted cooperatively…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Xiu-Bai, Qin – ORTESOL Journal, 1983
A Chinese student of English is often faced with culturally based differences in denotation and connotation, idioms and proverbs, habits, and formulaic use of language. Since the native speaker of any language has built into his language repertoire his unique cultural assumptions and values, a culture-oriented curriculum in language teaching is…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cultural Differences, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development
Tuck, Betty H. – 1975
The project was an effort to investigate local leadership structures and issues related to government, and to develop out of this a curriculum for teaching English to Micronesian adults. The process involved (1) gathering data (recorded adult perceptions of government functioning) by a writer traveling throughout all of the local districts and (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Freudenstein, Reinhold; Habel, Hans-Gunther – 1970
This report consists of two papers devoted to the learning of English in the comprehensive high schools of Hessia, West Germany. The first paper discusses a study which suggests replacement of traditional methods by an audiolingual approach. A catalog of learning goals supplants outdated curriculums, thereby ensuring a stepwise progression of…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Van Dang, Hung – International Education Journal, 2006
Although learner-centeredness has been widely applied in instruction in the world, this approach has only been cautiously adopted in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching at some institutions in Vietnam. Taking a social constructivist view, this case study explores how a learner-centred perspective is employed in EFL teaching at a teacher…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1993
The Conflict Resolution Model project was designed to develop and field test an instructional model and materials for use in providing instruction in conflict resolution theory and techniques to participants in adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs. The instructional materials were written in a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development
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