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Bimali Indrarathne – ELT Journal, 2025
Whether or not ELT practitioners have access to research findings, their understanding of them and the perceived relevance to their own contexts are important debates in the language education field. This paper discusses an initiative that attempted to disseminate research findings relating to teaching/learning grammar to a group of ELT teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Abebe Tewachew; Kassie Shiferie; Ebabu Tefera – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aimed to examine the practices of EFL teachers in test construction. It was conducted in six purposively selected secondary schools. The study addressed the following question: What are the practices of EFL teachers in test construction? The theoretical basis of the study was Bloom's taxonomy. The design of the study was a convergent…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Test Construction
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Joshua Matthews; Devrim Yilmaz – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The concept of noticing, which emphasizes the role of attention and awareness in language learning, has exerted a strong influence on second language acquisition (SLA) theory and practice. The current research analyzes instances of noticing evident across a 26-week period as the first author, an absolute beginner, was taught Turkish by the second…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vignettes
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Abdellah El Boubekri – Journal of Education, 2024
This article draws on an online survey to collect data about the perceptions of Moroccan secondary school teachers of English in connection with their use of translation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning settings. As in previous research on L1 (first language) use, this study emphasizes the unavoidability of translation…
Descriptors: Native Language, Arabic, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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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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Zhuo Chen; Yunlong Qiu – SAGE Open, 2025
Pragmatic identity has received much attention in pragmatic studies. However, few studies have examined teacher's pragmatic identity construction in the "shuoke" context. "Shuoke" is a teaching activity in which a teacher explains the teaching design and process to colleagues or experts for feedbacks. To address this research…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Smith, Joye – TESOL Journal, 2022
Although judicious grammar teaching in college ESOL instruction is generally accepted, little is known about the grammar teaching practices of teachers of school-age English language learners (ELLs), who are learning academic content as well as a new language. In this study, 86 primary and secondary teachers of ELLs in a U.S. metropolitan area…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
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Shabaka-Fernández, Sonia – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Teacher language use has long been debated and the different proportions and functions of the first language (L1) have been recurrently examined. Nevertheless, there has not been enough attention paid to the relationship between teacher language use and learning outcomes using empirical data. Hence, the present study aims to investigate the effect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Selenne Ríos-Higuera; Elizabeth Ruiz-Esparza – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This paper presents the findings of a descriptive multiple case study carried out with six teachers of English in five public secondary schools in a city in northwestern Mexico aimed to determine how writing was taught. A mixed methods approach was followed with an embedded design in which qualitative data had increased weight and quantitative…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
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Saichon Pianpadungporn – Higher Education Studies, 2024
In Thailand, the traditional teaching approach used for English language classes has been to explicitly teach English grammar, but in recent years the strategy has begun to shift towards the implicit teaching of language via communicative techniques. Within academic circles, there has been minimal agreement on the suitability of approaches used.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Direct Instruction
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Hall, Joan Kelly; Looney, Stephen Daniel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Second language (L2) teaching is complex interactional work. Although how teachers teach is known to be significant to student engagement and learning, the specialized nature of teaching is typically represented as knowledge and beliefs about teaching. This is changing, however, as the number of studies drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Ní Dhiorbháin, Aisling – Teaching Education, 2023
Explicit knowledge of language is posited as a core component of language teachers' professional knowledge, as it impacts on their classroom practice, cognition and professional reflection. In response to a sociocultural turn in teacher education, this paper presents a sociocultural rationale for the implementation of an explicit-inductive…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Alsalami, Ahmed Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This paper is set up to outline the most common challenges in writing short sentences encountered by the first-year students at the English language departments at Al-Baha University campuses. The study is considered necessary because it raises the awareness of both students and instructors to improve their sentence writing. A mixed approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Hassan, Ahdi; Kasan, Rusnadi Ali; Alawawda, Mariam; Soliman, Randa Abdou – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Teachers' beliefs have been shown to have a significant impact on educational practice, particularly in the domain of grammar instruction, where teachers have strong opinions. Traditional grammar training is sometimes criticized for promoting lower order thinking and relying on rules of thumb rather than new language developments. A rising corpus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Grammar
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Mohamed Reza Farangi; Naser Rashidi; Abolfazl Sanjarani – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigated EFL classroom talk using Halliday and Matthiessen's (2013) meta-functions framework. Four female participants, including two experienced and two inexperienced teachers, taught similar grammar subjects to their intact classes. Classes were video-recorded and transcribed by the researchers. The meta-functions included topical…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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