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Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez; Pablo Robles-García; Mercedes Pérez Serrano – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Studies on teachers' beliefs about vocabulary learning and teaching have focused, so far, on English as a second language (L2), or foreign language (FL), in different contexts but little attention has been given to other L2s and FLs. In this study, 15 Spanish L2 instructors at large universities were interviewed in order to better understand where…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Yingling Bao; Belle Li – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Research on teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) has been burgeoning recently. Yet, little is known about how teachers integrate AI tools such as ChatGPT in language teaching. This preliminary qualitative study investigates the exploration and incorporation of ChatGPT in language teaching by graduate student instructors…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Chinese
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Ramjattan, Vijay A. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
"Accent work" is a term used to describe the preparatory work that professional actors undergo to attain a speech accent for a role. However, this article presents international teaching assistants (ITAs) as another set of workers who engage in their own type of accent work. Since the accents of ITAs are constructed as…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Heesun Chang; Amin Raeisi-Vanani – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The purpose of this study is to analyze the grammatical complexity features of international teaching assistants' (ITAs) mock-teaching presentations and to compare the distributions of these features to those found in the Oral English Proficiency Test (a local ITA assessment), university classroom teaching, conversation, and academic writing. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Assistants, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
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Chang, Heesun – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Drawing on the framework of invariant measurement from Rasch measurement theory, the purpose of this study is to psychometrically evaluate the 20 language and teaching skill domains of the International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Test using the many-facet Rasch model and to empirically explore performance differences between females and males in…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Roger William Anderson – Journal of International Students, 2024
Educators of International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) have been overlooked, erroneously. As teacher educators, their work is exponentially important to North American universities. A multiple case study examined three ITA Educators' ideologies, involving data from two interviews -one being a stimulated recall using classroom observations…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Parva Panahi lazarjani – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The highly diverse character of US universities provides an opportunity for writing programs to (re)examine the extent to which their current administrative, curricular, and pedagogical practices support a growing student population with unique linguistic, cultural, and educational backgrounds, resources, and needs. This dissertation research…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Program Administration, Writing Instruction, Teacher Educators
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Dalman, Mohammadreza; Kang, Okim – International Journal of Listening, 2023
This study investigated U.S. undergraduates' perceptions of non-native speakers' (NNS) speech which had received 100% proficiency scores on the TOEFL iBT test. Fifty-five U.S. undergraduates rated 20 speech samples for comprehensibility, accentedness, and acceptability. The speech samples were also analyzed for acoustic fluency. Descriptively,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scores, Speech Communication
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Ma, Wenyue; Winke, Paula – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The factors that influence rater scoring have been a subject of great interest to researchers in second language assessment. However, the research on the impact of test-takers' speech profiles (e.g., a jagged or a flat profile reflecting analytic subscores) on raters' scoring behaviors remains to be seen. To investigate the role of speech profiles…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Profiles
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LaScotte, Darren; Meyers, Colleen; Tarone, Elaine – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
There are two broad approaches to the research and teaching of second-language (L2) pronunciation--'bottom-up' and 'top-down'--which roughly align with structural and communicative approaches to language teaching. A bottom-up approach, explicitly focusing on de-contextualised linguistic forms, is structuralist and predominated in the second half…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Pronunciation
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Cotos, Elena; Chung, Yoo-Ree – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
In the past 2 decades, there has been an increasing tendency to use scores from the "TOEFL iBT"® Speaking test for decisions regarding the certification of international graduate students as teaching assistants at North American universities. To obtain validity evidence in support of the usefulness of the speaking scores for this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Test Interpretation
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Hakkola, Leah; Chien, Ming Tso; Pelletreau, Karen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
International teaching assistants face unique and often challenging experiences when entering graduate studies in the United States. Challenges include navigating socialization into graduate education, and instructional, linguistic, and social difficulties. Communities of Practice can impart academic knowledge and information to assist with…
Descriptors: Socialization, Self Efficacy, Communities of Practice, Case Studies
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Ma, Wenyue – Language Testing, 2022
Second-language (L2) testing researchers have explored the relationship between speakers' overall speaking ability, reflected by holistic scores, and the speakers' performance on speaking subcomponents, reflected by analytic scores (e.g., McNamara, 1990; Sato, 2011). These research studies have advanced applied linguists' understanding of how…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Teaching Assistants, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sok, Sarah; Du, Qian; Lee, Jerry Won – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Various examinations are administered at universities across the US as a means of assessing bilingual/multilingual international teaching assistants' (ITAs') proficiency in spoken English before they are permitted to teach. While such exams are taken by students in a range of academic disciplines, recent research suggests that communicative…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kuder, Emily – Hispania, 2020
Rhetorical word stress has been identified as a feature of public, presentational, and didactic speech styles in Spanish through theoretical descriptions, intuitive accounts, and laboratory-based empirical research. Most scholars agree that non-primary stress is acoustically marked by pitch and primary stress is marked by segment lengthening. The…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonology
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