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Boudjemaa Dendenne – Migration and Language Education, 2022
We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating communication for them--especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer- pandemic (i.e., Covid-19). To this end, I discuss the role which "metalanguage" could play in this regard, with reference to Natural Semantic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tawfiq, Hatim Hassan; Abdelshafie, Abdelshafie Alrayeh – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper examines the linguistic barriers that impede English language communicative proficiency of the students of English language in the college of sciences and humanity studies, Thadiq, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. The paper gives the specific linguistic problems that detain attaining a perfect English language communicative competence.…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Awang, Suryani; Hassan, Wan Nurhafiza Fatini Wan; Abdullah, Normah; Zakaria, Wan Nuur Fazliza Wan; Razak, Siti Shazlin – English Language Teaching, 2022
Communication strategies (CS) have been generally used to overcome oral communication problems in delivering the intended messages. While studies on CS mostly involved simulated communication contexts, the current study deviates from the past studies on CS by identifying the types of CS employed by candidates of real job interviews and examining…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hirata, Saki; Yamada, Masanori – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Vocabulary learning that overlooks the discrimination of single sounds in English language learning could lead to communication difficulties, such as the inability to hear and speak English pronunciation. To address this issue, vocalization strategy, in which students listen to the sounds of words and memorize them aloud, is considered a useful…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Audio Equipment, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
Noviyenty, Leffi; Morganna, Ruly; Fakhruddin – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Regardless of varied lingua-cultural ideologies enriching the theories of communicative competence (CC), the four CC dimensions (e.g., linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse, and communication strategies (CSs)) still become the main cores of English speaking (ES) classrooms. Of the four dimensions, CSs seem to be the most technical which deserve…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Speech Communication, College Faculty, Learning Processes
Donald, Shane – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
Drawing on Conversation Analysis, this paper investigates how an English native speaker interviewer utilizes clarification requests as a form of recipient design during an interview to resolve problems of non-understanding. This data is contrasted with interviews between English language learners at a private university in Taiwan. The findings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
Liu, Kai-Li – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2021
This paper examines a pedagogy of using a critical incidents-based (CI-based) method combining student-authored critical incidents, reflection, and interviews to teach and assess intercultural learning. The researcher used student-authored critical incidents as authentic cultural materials, with reflection on those incidents and interviews as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Critical Incidents Method
Deocampo, Marilyn Fernandez – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
To become a better teacher, teachers are encouraged to practice 'a reflective mind' to have an insight of what is going on in the classroom and decipher what works and would not work (Farrell, 2018). Teachers, the English language teachers in particular, are likely to face many challenges not only in the global economy and competitive market of…
Descriptors: Practicums, Reflective Teaching, Bilingual Schools, Foreign Countries
Shaaban, Sumer Salman Abou – English Language Teaching, 2020
This research was conducted to suggest a set of WhatsApp activities to enhance pedagogical knowledge and classroom practices that can be used in TEFL courses and to explore student-teachers' reflection towards the use of WhatsApp and the suggested activities. By reviewing related literature of using social networks and WhatsApp and though…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Lai, Yi-Ju – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper examines the chronotopic nature of physics discourse and instructional practices that are mediated through the integration of disciplinary spatial repertoires and mathematical symbolic systems. The paper addresses how meanings are constructed during instruction between bilingual international teaching assistants (ITAs) and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Bilingualism
Thuratham, Wadinlada – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
To have necessary and ready skills for careers in the 21st century, students should be given awareness of the importance of English, not only in formal but also non-formal and informal education. However, students still lack English abilities, and their English communication skills are still in need of development. Thus, this study aims to analyse…
Descriptors: Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hunt-Gómez, Coral I.; Navarro-Pablo, Macarena – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
English Foreign Language (EFL) teachers need to be especially aware of their own articulatory errors and to manage strategies to overcome them. A specific corrective strategy using phonetic notation to destabilise the most recurrent articulatory errors to be applied to Spanish pre-service English Primary School teachers is presented. Firstly, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Abdelgadir, Ehsan Mohammed – English Language Teaching, 2019
The present study carries out to investigate and identify the communication problems that affecting the Teaching/Learning process of ELT. It aims to help teachers and learners to know the cause of these problems and to use and practice (IPA) in English pronunciation. It also sheds light on the most common mistakes of English sounds in relation to…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Communication Problems, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Matsumoto, Yumi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study qualitatively investigates miscommunication moments during which a teacher of English who speaks a first language other than English and students with various linguacultures collaboratively resolve communicative problems with the assistance of other students in the classroom. These other students, referred to as third-party participants…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethnography
Castillo, Rigoberto; Florez-Martelo, Laura Stefany – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2020
In the context of advocacy of the rights of minorities, communities should research about the learning rights of individuals with hearing loss. This article reports a case study that looked into the retrospectives and perspectives of three hard-of-hearing participants (HHs) on learning another language. The data on retrospectives refer to the…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests