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De Costa, Peter I.; Gajasinghe, Kasun; Ojha, Laxmi Prasad; Rabie-Ahmed, Amr – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Consistent with recent calls to bridge the research-practice divide in second language acquisition, this article reports on the findings of a collaborative autoethnographic study that we, authors of this article, conducted as critical second language teacher educators. Conducting a series of constructive dialogues among ourselves for a semester,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Action Research, Autobiographies
Sampson, Richard J. – Educational Action Research, 2021
Action research has been advanced as one way that second language (L2) teachers might raise their awareness of the complexities of their work. Yet, while the publication of action research into L2 learning and teaching has gained some traction in recent years, reports naturally tend to focus on research outcomes. In the current article, I argue…
Descriptors: Action Research, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Paran, Amos – ELT Journal, 2017
This article responds to recent critiques of the usefulness of research findings to teaching, and the call for teachers to rely on their experiences and intuition. I discuss the fallibility of intuition and then examine the nature of research and of critical thinking and their importance for teachers and teacher education. I provide evidence of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Criticism
Iftanti, Erna; Shofiya, Arina – Dinamika Ilmu, 2017
One of the purposes of English Education Program of State Islamic Institute of Tulungagung, Indonesia, is to lead the graduates to do research on linguistics and language teaching and to write a thesis accordingly. However, the preliminary study shows that there is some repeatedly research on the same topics, because the students commonly spend…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Second Language Learning
Al-Maamari, Faisal S. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2016
It is generally acknowledged that novice researchers may not be adequately prepared to engage in/with research and that an increasingly widening divide exists between researchers and teachers, and therefore between research and practice. To explore this gap, this paper addresses ten of the most popular misconceptions novice researchers hold in…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Correlation, Sampling, Ethics
Zein, Subhan, Ed.; Garton, Sue, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
Language teacher education is widely identified as one of the most important areas that needs addressing in order to improve early language instruction, yet research into teacher education for early language teachers remains relatively sparse. This volume responds to this gap by compiling studies with diverse methodological tenets from a wide…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Second Language Learning, Teacher Education, Educational Research
Atmaca, Çagla – Online Submission, 2017
Growing body of studies has stressed the role of research in teacher education since conducting research informs both teachers and students, and contributes to professional skills. Therefore, this study aimed to find out and compare the perspectives of pre-service and in-service English teachers in an EFL context with regard to finding sufficient…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers
Rontu, Heidi; Tuomi, Ulla-Kristiina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The role of research in university institutions whose primary task is to provide teaching remains ambiguous and controversial. In principle, all university teaching is based on pertinent research. However, for some university units, such as language centres, the basic tasks, and consequently their funding, are very often defined in a manner which…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Universities
Schwieter, John W., Ed.; Benati, Alessandro, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this "Handbook," written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Theories
Wang, Qiang; Zhang, Hong – Language Teaching Research, 2014
Over the past few decades, the pursuit of teachers-as-researchers has become an ideal for developing teacher autonomy to which many in the world of curriculum development and language teacher education try to promote (Benson, 2001). Nevertheless, research into how teachers learn to do research has been scarce, and there are pressing needs for…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers
Prasad, Gail – Intercultural Education, 2015
In an age of transnational mobility, there has been a growing recognition of the need for both English and French mainstream classroom teachers to be trained to teach increasingly plurilingual student populations. In this article, I begin by describing the context for an exploratory comparative and collaborative ethnographic action research study…
Descriptors: French, English, Multilingualism, Ethnography
Chien, Chiying – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The Teaching Resources Center (TRC) was developed at the university as an integrated project funded by the Ministry of Education. The focus of the TRC is not only on enhancing students' motivation in self-access study and written English, but also on providing the resources for research and information to develop lifelong learners and independent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Centers, Teaching Methods, Lifelong Learning
Chew, Esyin; Ding, Seong Lin – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Educational practitioners in the higher education institutions of the UK have increasingly promoted the use of wikis. The technology enhanced learning experience of the UK was transferred to a local higher educational agency in Malaysia through a collaborative research project called WiLearn. By examining a student cohort enrolled in Chinese…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Web Sites, Groups, Learning Experience
Caban, Heather Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Freire wrote that reading one's world is a necessary precursor to writing it, or conscienzation. The present dissertation, expanding on Kellner's concept of multiple literacies (1998; 2002a; 2005b; 2006a; 2008), explores what it means to read and write one's world in the context of globalization. Given the arrival of a new imaginary, with its…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Media Literacy, Guidelines, Multiple Literacies
Lalani, Shaheena Sulaiman; Rodrigues, Sherwin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
This collaborative action research aimed to explore some classroom-based assessment strategies to assess the reading skills of young children. This article presents the findings of the pre-intervention stage as part of an action research study where a teacher's perception and practice of assessing the reading skills of young learners were…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Action Research, Reading Skills, Language Teachers
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