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Rita Yeboah; Kwaku Darko Amponsah; Priscilla Commey Mintah; John Sedofia; Phyllis Bernice Kwarteng Donkor (Opare) – Education 3-13, 2025
This research explores how primary school teachers use games to enhance pupils' learning and development of conceptual knowledge. The study employs an illustrative case study design; data was collected through interviews with thirty (30) teachers who were selected using purposive sampling technique. Twenty teachers had some knowledge of game-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Game Based Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
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William Ricardo Ortiz-Garcia; Zulma Carolina Navarrete-Villarraga – HOW, 2024
This paper reports the results of a qualitative action research study conducted with children from a private Colombian institution. This study aimed to analyze the learners' cognitive and knowledge outcomes measured according to the revised Bloom's taxonomy once content and language integrated learning was implemented. Data were gathered through…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Soheil Kargar Dahr; Baqer Yaqubi; Sajjad Pouromid; Mahmood Dehqan – Classroom Discourse, 2024
While existing research into L2 classroom discourse has highlighted how knowledge and knowledge positions are negotiated, no attention seems to have been paid to what might be called "conceptual epistemic domains." Drawing on 22 hours of video-recorded data from Iranian EFL classrooms, our conversation analytic study illustrates how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mary J. Schleppegrell; Mina Hernandez Garcia; Sally AL-Banna; Chauncey Monte-Sano – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
We report on U.S. middle school Arabic-speaking students who were agentive in translanguaging for disciplinary learning during social studies inquiry and suggest specific ways that students' academic learning and bilingual development can be supported through translanguaging in the context of English-dominant classrooms. We engaged in design-based…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mark Antony de Boer; Dmitri Leontjev – Language Awareness, 2024
Morton's "language knowledge for content teaching" (LKCT) is a powerful tool for understanding interactions in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms, as well as CLIL teachers' knowledge base and teacher language awareness (TLA). However, often lacking in the body of research on TLA and LKCT is an explicit stance on…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Rio Satria Nugroho; Radityo Widiatmojo – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
This research discusses the close relationship between visual literacy, the ability to read, understand, and create visual texts -- and elementary school books, particularly children's picture books. It aims to explore the visual literacy parameters in English elementary textbooks published by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. In…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Jayathilake, Chitra – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
Characterized by specific and rigid boundaries of institutional practices and expectations in the academy, student writing is a synergistic literacy practice where students are required to construct generically diverse texts by yoking concepts with appropriate linguistic resources. This empirical study involving 196 first-year ESL students at a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning
Alba Garcia Alonso – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Leveraging the effectiveness of Concept-Based Language Instruction (C-BLI) in language teaching and learning, including in the teaching of specific linguistic features of target languages (Negueruela, 2003; Van Compernolle, 2012), pragmatic elements such as sarcasm (Kim & Lantolf, 2018), and even discipline-specific concepts (e.g., Casal,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Qin, Lili; Ouyang, Xibei; Ren, Wei – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) is a pedagogy guided by sociocultural theory, which has been shown to be effective in facilitating second language learning. Typical activities include materialization by using a schema for a complete orienting basis of an action (SCOBA) and languaging, through which learners' internalization of…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Scott E. Grapin; Lorena Llosa; Okhee Lee – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Contemporary conceptions of content learning that emphasize disciplinary practices offer opportunities to see and hear multilingual learners' (MLs') participation in new ways. However, research on disciplinary practices with MLs has primarily targeted those practices traditionally considered language intensive, such as explanation and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, English (Second Language), Models
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Veliz, Leonardo; Véliz-Campos, Mauricio – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
The present study is aimed at unpacking Latino migrants' metaphorical conceptualizations of their language learning trajectories as sites for construction and negotiation of their complex identities throughout the process of transnational migration. In particular, our work intends to describe and interrogate three adult Latino migrants' personal,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Concept Formation
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Heffington, Deon Victoria; Coady, Maria R. – Language and Education, 2023
Educational systems worldwide underscore the importance of developing higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) to prepare students for the new challenges of the XXI century. Some pressing issues faced by educators include the ambiguity of the construct; the implementation of HOTS in classroom practices; and the implications for teaching students from…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Case Studies
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Anderson, Ann; Anderson, Jim – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Educators and researchers consider vocabulary development foundational in young children's language and literacy learning and for academic achievement; adult-child shared book reading is potentially a rich site for word learning and concept development. In this article, we report on how an immigrant father and his four year old daughter, English…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Yilmaz, Rabia Meryem; Topu, Fatma Burcu; Takkaç Tulgar, Aysegül – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The purpose of this study is to discover pre-school children's vocabulary learning, retention levels, and perspectives of English language learning using augmented reality (AR) technology. To achieve this goal, a one-group pre-test, and post-test design was used to assess the effect of using AR-supported educational toys on pre-school children's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Preschool Children, English (Second Language)
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Sunasuan, Piyawan; Songserm, Ubonwan – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This research attempted to study how using an advance organizer model can influence meaningful learning of new concepts for ESL learners in collaborative classrooms. The objectives were 1) to study the effects of using the advance organizer model, and 2) to study the student achievement after using the advance organizer model to compare to the 80…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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