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Askat Tleuov – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2025
Despite communicative goals in English language instruction, speaking skills remain underemphasized in Kazakhstani secondary schools where assessment policies prioritize grammar and reading proficiency. This study examined how four experienced EFL teachers conceptualized and implemented speaking instruction within an exam-oriented educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
Dongying Li; Lian Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Academic literacy development is shaped by multiple individual and contextual factors that mutually interact with one another. Previous studies have identified some of the factors, but few explored their complex and dynamic interactions in students' writing practices. The study adopts a case study method to examine EFL learners' academic literacy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Language
Theerapong Palakaprasith; Rattanawadee Chotikapanich; Surattana Adipat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
This study examines the perceptions of listening comprehension difficulties among English preservice teachers at a university in Thailand. Survey-based research was conducted using a questionnaire designed by Ahkam Hasan Assaf. The questionnaire consisted of 45 close-ended questions on a five-point Likert scale. Out of 98 English preservice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers
Bader Aljadei; Khalifa Alkhalifa; John I. Liontas – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2025
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education and creating new opportunities for language learning and teaching. In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, idiomatic competence represents a persistent instructional challenge because it requires cultural awareness and contextual understanding. Traditional…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration, English (Second Language)
Rachael Jacobs – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
The use of drama pedagogies in language education has fast become internationally recognised for its unique, synthesised approach to language learning. For this reason, the field has experienced large-scale growth, as evidenced by drama and non-drama specialists bringing applied and educational linguistics and drama together. This paper aims to…
Descriptors: Drama, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Maryam Soleimani; Zahra Aghazadeh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The present investigation examines the impact of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) on the enhancement of EFL learners' idiom learning through "WhatsApp" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three complete classes with 60 intermediate female learners (20 per class) were selected and randomly assigned into two experimental and one control…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Telecommunications
Emmanuel Rodriguez; Eniko Csomay – CATESOL Journal, 2024
Choosing relevant vocabulary to teach in ESL composition courses can be a difficult task for instructors. They often rely on intuition rather than empirical methods for vocabulary selection. This paper presents two case studies where corpora were used either to select vocabulary items for instruction or to scaffold student learning of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
House, Juliane; Kádár, Dániel Z.; Liu, Fengguang; Liu, Shiyu – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper investigates the phenomenon of greeting in English, which can be surprisingly challenging for speakers of other languages, such as Chinese. By 'greeting' we mean the seemingly 'simple' act of choosing conventionalized expressions at the opening of an encounter. Following pilot interviews with Chinese learners of English who reported…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Yang, Zening; Sanchez, Hugo Santiago – TESL-EJ, 2023
Over the decades, extensive research efforts have been directed towards classifying and evaluating motivational teaching behaviours. Recent calls in motivational research, however, have emphasised the need to investigate teachers' perspectives on how they develop effective motivational strategies so that implications for motivational teaching are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hsu, Liwei; Chen, Yen-Jung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The integration of technology in teachers' pedagogical practices has become the norm within various educational settings including the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) praxis. Although the technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK) of EFL teachers has been explored previously, the contextual effects of the diffusion of technology at…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, English (Second Language)
Sukying, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Language learning strategies (LLS) are conscious behaviours used by language learners to foster the acquisition, storage, and use of new information. This study investigated the LLS used by Thai EFL university students using a questionnaire based on Oxford's (1990) LLS taxonomy. It also identified the relationship and the difference in LLS use…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Dikilitas, Kenan; Bahrami, Vahid – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Teacher identity construction has long been investigated within the field of English language teaching. However, little is known about how particularities and demands of co-teaching language and content in bilingual education (BE) settings may lead to teacher identity (re)construction, especially in preschool contexts. Therefore, we explored,…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teaching Methods, Professional Identity, Language Teachers
Zheng, Chunxian – Power and Education, 2022
This ethnographic study attempts to find, reveal, and understand the quality of life in a College English classroom for non-English majors in China, where a task-based language learning and teaching practice is conducted under the guide of the principles of Exploratory Practice, aiming at exploring the viability of the practice in this specific…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Critical Thinking
Bacca-Acosta, Jorge; Tejada, Julian; Fabregat, Ramon; Kinshuk; Guevara, Juan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Scaffolding is a mechanism for helping novice learners to solve a problem or complete a task that is beyond their current skill set. Prior research on immersive virtual reality (IVR) environments with scaffolding has mainly focused on the effectiveness of scaffolding for conceptual understanding and information processing. However, research on…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Eye Movements, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhang, Xiaodong – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
This qualitative research seeks to understand L2 student writers' perceptions of writing anxiety when drama-based pedagogy and linguistic guidance are provided. This study draws on a qualitative analysis of 22 English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' episodes of dramatic presentations, reflections, interviews, and English essays collected…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Anxiety