NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Porto, Melina; López-Barrios, Mario; Banegas, Darío Luis – Language Teaching, 2021
The aim of this article is to review five years (2014-2018) of research in English language teaching (ELT) in Argentina. In this overview, 115 publications (conference proceedings, journal articles, and edited collections) were analysed in terms of topic and research methodologies to map out the major areas of interest and developments in ELT in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Research Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dalton-Puffer, Christiane; Boeckmann, Klaus-Börge; Hinger, Barbara – Language Teaching, 2019
This overview of seven years of research on language learning and teaching in Austria reflects a period of steady growth for the language teaching and learning research community, a development due to a national policy agenda aiming for a stronger research base in teacher education. The target languages of the teaching and learning processes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Goh, Christine C. M. – Language Teaching, 2017
This article is a personal view of the application of results from three areas of research that I believe are relevant to developing second language speaking in the classroom: task repetition, pre-task planning and communication strategies. I will discuss these three areas in terms of level of research application--where research is not applied…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Communication Strategies, Oral Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Butler, Yuko Goto – Language Teaching, 2015
The teaching of foreign languages to young learners is growing in popularity around the world. Research in this field, particularly of English as a second/foreign language education in East Asia, is a relatively new area of empirical inquiry, and it has the potential to make significant contributions to child second-language acquisition…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Atkinson, Dwight – Language Teaching, 2014
Based on recent research in cognitive science, interaction, and second language acquisition (SLA), I describe a sociocognitive approach to SLA. This approach adopts a "non-cognitivist" view of cognition: Instead of an isolated computational process in which input is extracted from the environment and used to build elaborate internal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Cognitive Science, Intelligence
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hanauer, David I. – Language Teaching, 2012
This paper develops the concept of meaningful literacy and offers a classroom methodology--poetry writing--that manifests this approach to ESL/EFL literacy instruction. The paper is divided into three sections. The first deals with the concept of meaningful literacy learning in second and foreign language pedagogy; the second summarizes empirical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literacy, Poetry, Teaching Methods