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Satoshi Yamagata; Tatsuya Nakata; James Rogers – TESOL Journal, 2024
Knowledge of collocations facilitates second language (L2) learning by enhancing accuracy and fluency. However, acquiring L2 collocations is often challenging for learners. One factor contributing to this difficulty is incongruency between first and second languages (e.g., "draw distinctions" in English corresponds to do…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Nouns
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Kimberly Ridley; Subrata Bhowmik – TESOL Journal, 2025
Translanguaging has recently gained much currency in second language (L2) education. While the conceptualization of this theory stems from the goal of enhancing L2 education for learners, one challenge scholars have underlined is the need for more responsive, practical classroom activities consistent with translanguaging principles and stance.…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Sidaway, Kathryn – TESOL Journal, 2022
Identifying students' reasons for learning a language is useful for every teacher who aims to help students achieve their goals. In addition, understanding how their language learning motivation is maintained through the class and to what extent this continues away from the classroom are equally important, especially in noncompulsory adult ESOL.…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lilia Savova; Maryam Azarnoosh – TESOL Journal, 2024
To examine speaker role models (SRMs) in second language acquisition (SLA), this study explored the sociolinguistic "English as a lingua franca" (ELF) perspective targeting international intelligibility. Thus, it examined the way ELF learners align with self-selected English speakers and anonymous (audio-recorded) English speakers as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Role Models, Self Concept
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Bakhtiar Naghdipour – TESOL Journal, 2025
Developing writing skills in a foreign language is a highly value-laden practice that is susceptible to the influence of the dominant ideological narratives of a given context. This influence is typically echoed in policies and practices informing the role, scope, and place of writing in curriculum and pedagogy. Using autoethnographic reflections,…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Adnan Yilmaz; Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart; Necati Sönmez – TESOL Journal, 2024
Social justice language education (SJLE) explores the ways in which language classrooms can be transformed to disrupt the existing oppressive policies and practices in schools and the society at large (Ortaçtepe Hart & Martel, 2020; Ortaçtepe Hart, 2023; Ortega, 2021). As an approach within SJLE, dramatizing children's literature can raise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Social Justice, Childrens Literature
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Özgehan Ustuk – TESOL Journal, 2025
Language teacher educators all around the world work in multiple countries and institutions throughout their careers across institutional, national, and academic cultures. As higher education becomes more transnational in some regions (including Hong Kong), it has also become more common for language teacher educators to construct transnational…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnography
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Do, Anh Tuan – TESOL Journal, 2023
This article aims to disseminate a technology-enhanced language pedagogy for teaching oral English in a World Englishes context, which is underpinned by the theories of scaffolding, scaffolded instruction, and task-based learning, and utilises a Moodle learning management system (LMS) as its e-learning platform. In this pedagogy, not only do…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Kanako Yamaoka – TESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigates whether Japanese university students' motivation to communicate in English was enhanced through the application of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) practices. Fifty-three non-English majors took a CLIL English class that utilized massive open online course (MOOC) content for a semester. They gave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Art Tsang – TESOL Journal, 2024
Despite scholars' advocacy of intelligibility over nativelikeness in the EFL education context, many learners still seem to favour standard British and American accents. However, comparisons across studies have shown some changes in learners' perceptions, suggesting a move away from standard accent orientation. This article reports part of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Dialects, Pronunciation, Student Evaluation
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Murray, Helen Margaret – TESOL Journal, 2022
This article considers how theories about intercultural competence can be used when teaching about Indigenous peoples in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. Intercultural understanding and communicative competence are important skills for pupils to develop for living in modern multicultural societies. Although based on the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness
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Declan Flanagan – TESOL Journal, 2025
This article questions the perceived optimism regarding a new centrist left-wing 'United Kingdom (UK) government' stance on English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision. It examines the impact of neoliberal policies, particularly those of the New Labour government (1997-2010), and compares them with previous/subsequent Conservative…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nhlanhla Mpofu – TESOL Journal, 2024
In 2013, as a strategy to enhance academic performance, the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) published several English Across the Curriculum (EAC) manuals to guide in-service teachers who did not have prior knowledge of how to integrate the teaching of content subjects with language learning. The DBE introduced the EAC strategy as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zanib Rasool; Abigail Hackett – TESOL Journal, 2024
This article uses an Islamic lens to explore the question, "What are the identities, aspirations, and motivations for Pakistani and Muslim women learning English?" As Muslim women, the research participants had a strong allegiance to motherhood, with children being a motivating factor in learning English. This study explores how…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yang, Shizhou – TESOL Journal, 2022
Little is known about literacy autobiography (LA) in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Using the triad of translingualism, transnationalism, and investment as a lens to examine the classroom writing ecology (which is composed of the participants, process, artifacts, and structure), the present ethnographic case study explores a…
Descriptors: Literacy, Autobiographies, Ecology, Second Language Learning
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