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Factors Contributing to Speaking Anxiety and Anxiety Reduction Techniques in Thai Adult EFL Learners
Natthakit Suratin; Virasuda Sribayak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The aim of the study was to identify the factors that contribute to speaking anxiety in Thai adult EFL learners working in an online media company and enrolled in an English course provided by the company, as well as to discover the anxiety reduction techniques used by these learners. The results showed that significant contributors to speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
Goode, Ruth – English Teaching Forum, 2020
Teaching large classes of students who aren't familiar with communicative activities can be challenging. One of the biggest challenges is to ensure that all students participate actively, especially if the teacher isn't able to pay close attention to them. One useful and simple strategy to help students stay on task for longer when doing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Kellem, Kunie; Halvorsen, Andy – ORTESOL Journal, 2018
ESL/EFL teachers can face several challenges when it comes to a focus on language forms in the classroom. How should teachers integrate the instruction of structural language forms with meaning-based activities? How necessary is a focus on form for student language learning? In what contexts is an explicit focus on form in the classroom most…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Classroom Techniques, Relevance (Education)
Perceptions and Practices in Language Teaching: A Survey of Experts in Literary and Cultural Studies
White, Justin P.; DeMil, Andrew J.; Blattner, Geraldine – Dimension, 2021
This study serves as a follow-up to VanPatten's (2015a) demographic report including the makeup of many university language departments. The present study investigates what some literary and cultural studies experts self-report regarding their training in SLA/language pedagogy, term familiarity, perceptions of Communicative Language Teaching, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty, Language Teachers
Rouf, Md. Abdur; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
The study was carried out to explore the pedagogical skills of secondary-level English language (EL) teachers in Bangladesh. Classroom teaching is a challenging job, and more so for English language (EL) teachers as English is a skill-based subject. Teachers are supposed to demonstrate the required pedagogical skills for effective classroom EL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
Cheng, Yonghong; Ma, Yibing; Wang, Yan – Applied Language Learning, 2019
Abundant research has been conducted on the relationship between student learning styles and teacher teaching styles. However, the research on the relationship between teachers' learning styles and their choice of instructional strategies is scarce. To understand this relationship better, this study seeks to learn whether there is a statistically…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
VanPatten, Bill – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2017
From one of the leading figures in the field of second language acquisition and second language teaching, "While We're on the Topic..." offers an up-to-date overview of six principles underlying contemporary communicative language teaching. In a conversational style, Bill VanPatten addresses principles related to the nature of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods
Foltz, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2018
For this dissertation, teacher linguistic awareness (TLingA) involves teacher linguistic knowledge, teacher language awareness (TLA), and teacher cognition for second language (L2) teachers. Teacher linguistic knowledge is an understanding of how language functions and is compiled within the different areas of linguistics. And TLA is the knowledge…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
East, Martin – Language Learning Journal, 2015
A decade ago, Klapper (2003: "Taking communication to task? A critical review of recent trends in language teaching", "The Language Learning Journal" 27: 33-42) created the opportunity to reflect on the assets and limitations of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in comparison with more established communicative language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Trends, Task Analysis
Holme, Randal – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
Cognitive Linguistics (CL) makes the functional assumption that form is motivated by meaning. CL also analyses form-meaning pairings as products of how cognition structures perception. CL thus helps teachers to fit language to the nature of the cognition that learns whilst devising modes of instruction that are better attuned to the nature of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Schemata (Cognition), Teaching Methods, Psycholinguistics
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2015
"Special education" has become a prominent field that needs some attention in pre-service teacher education programmes offered by educational and teacher training institutions (e.g. Egyptian colleges of education at university). Like normal students, students with special educational needs (e.g. physical and mental disabilities, learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Special Needs Students
Farrell, Thomas S. C.; Bennis, Karen – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This paper presents a case study that investigated and compared the stated beliefs and observed classroom practices relating to language teaching of one experienced and one novice English language teacher. Areas where observed practices converged with or diverged from stated beliefs are explored and discussed with reference to factors which might…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Beaudrie, Sara M. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2015
This article reports on a comparative study of teacher and student perceptions on effective instructional practices in the Spanish heritage language classroom. The data were collected through an online questionnaire administered to 460 students in different Spanish courses and 9 instructors at a large university as well as focus groups. Based on…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Reynolds-Case, Anne – Hispania, 2012
This article presents a qualitative study demonstrating how teachers who are non-native speakers (NNS) of the target language and who have learned the target language in a similar environment as their students can use their past learning experiences as pedagogical tools in their classes. An analysis of transcripts from classrooms with NNS and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Qualitative Research, Spanish
Nguyen, Hong Thi; Warren, Wendy; Fehring, Heather – English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper reports part of a study that aims to explore factors affecting the efficacy of non-major English teaching and learning in Vietnamese higher education through an investigation of classroom practices. Eight non-participant class observations were conducted at HUTECH University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The study's findings show that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Nonmajors