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Alexius Chia; Christine Anita Xavier – TESOL Journal, 2025
This paper reports on an action research study that focused on reconceptualizing grammar within English Language classrooms in Singapore as a dynamic and contextually situated resource for meaningful literacy development. Departing from conventional perceptions of grammar as a rigid set of rules, the study endeavors to position it as a flexible…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Arnantawut Tiang-Uan; Saisunee Oulis – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
The aspects of language anxiety involve education, individual, and environment (Öztürk & Gürbüz, 2014). The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors contributing to anxiety in English speaking literacy for communication among third-year high school students in a public school in Bangkok, Thailand. Employing a questionnaire-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students
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Peter Crosthwaite; Brett Steeples – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Corpus-based approaches to language and literacy education, commonly known as data-driven learning (DDL), are increasing in prominence. However, the vast majority of DDL interventions involve adult tertiary level learners, leaving a dire need for comprehensive DDL studies for secondary education. The present study reports on a half-year DDL…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, Secondary School Students, Grammar
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Armea, Aires P.; Castro, Marvin P.; Llamado, Mylyn N.; Lotino, Renie B.; San Esteban, Arvin A.; Ocampo, Darrel M. – Online Submission, 2022
The study aimed to determine the English proficiency and literary competence of English major students of CBSUA-Sipocot. The third and fourth-year college students were the respondents of the study. The evaluative-correlational method was employed in the research. Frequency count and percentage technique were used to describe levels of proficiency…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Language Proficiency, English Literature, Second Language Learning
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Gonzalves, Lisa – Language Awareness, 2021
Many U.S. adult schools currently aim to create academic and career pathways by implementing higher order thinking and metalinguistic application in their ESL curriculum. However, this 'ability to reflect on and manipulate the structural features of language' poses a significant hurdle to adult ESL learners newly learning to read and write, as…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Adult Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gresser, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language is a powerful tool authors use to construct meaning. To better meet the needs of their students, teachers need to learn about how language is used in text so that they can better help their students to comprehend the texts they read. This study investigated how a small group of pre-service teachers (PSTs) in an intermediate reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
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Shufflebarger, Amanda – L2 Journal, 2021
This study draws upon Mindful L2 Teacher Education (Johnson & Golombek, 2016) to explore how volunteer community tutors of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) conceptualize and enact their roles as creative teachers. Through three case studies, I explore community language teachers' preunderstandings, contradictions, and growth points.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Volunteers
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Bedore, Lisa M.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Fiestas, Christine; Lugo-Neris, Mirza J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: Early Interventions in Reading (Vaughn et al., 2006), the only literacy intervention with demonstrated effectiveness for U.S. dual language learners, was enhanced to support the development of oral language (vocabulary, grammar, and narrative) and literacy, which we refer to as "Language and Literacy Together." The primary focus…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Early Intervention, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Janssen, Caressa; Segers, Eliane; McQueen, James M.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: The present study compared effects of explicit instruction on and practice with the phonological form of words (form-focused instruction) versus explicit instruction on and practice with the meaning of words (meaning-focused instruction). Instruction was given via interactive storybook reading in the kindergarten classroom of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Phonological Awareness, Semantics, Vocabulary Development
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2021
Teaching English as a Foreign Language from a New Literacy Perspective (2nd edition) is intended to be both a guide for EFL student teachers (i.e. prospective teachers of English enrolled in pre-service EFL teacher education programmes provided by faculties of education at the undergraduate level), and a resource book for EFL teacher educators…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Schoff, Susannah – CATESOL Journal, 2016
This article explores the teaching of English to speakers of other languages as an art, and as such, how teachers can engage in the creative process to develop their own teaching and encourage students to gain more meaningful and effective language skills. Drawing on the work of psychologists, art educators, and creative pedagogy, the writer…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Language and Education, 2017
Access to digital technology in the classroom enables the composition and organization of ideas on screen with a variety of semiotic systems of different modes and media. This study explores patterns of communication and preference of design in digital meaning-making of twelve 7-8 years old students. Meanings were shaped in complex uses and…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Elementary School Students, Information Technology, Cultural Influences
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Pedersen, Joelle – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Current writing research emphasizes the teaching of disciplinary literacy, attending to the privileged ways of writing in each subject area. However, as the traditional space for generic literacy instruction, the ELA classroom has not assimilated this shift. This study used qualitative content analysis to examine feedback on writing about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English, Language Arts, Literacy Education
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Wiggins, Meg; Parrao, Constanza Gonzalez; Austerberry, Helen; Ingold, Anne – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
The Foreign Language Learning (FLL) programme aimed to improve the English language attainment of Year 3 and 4 pupils through a detailed curriculum of weekly French classes with linked activity in English lessons. The programme, created by the Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT), lasted for three half-terms. French classes were 45 minutes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Literacy
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Clark, Urszula – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
The ways in which literacy in English is taught in school generally subscribe to and perpetuate the notion of a homogenous, unvaried set of writing conventions associated with the language they represent, especially in relation to spelling and punctuation as well as grammar. Such teaching also perpetuates the myth that there is one…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy Education, Spelling
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