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Justina, A. Njika – English Language Teaching, 2020
With the plethoric number of students in Cameroonian classrooms today, there is a common cry from teachers about the impracticability of creating interactional language lessons in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. The implication of this is that, if interactional lessons have been identified as cardinal in the process of language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Lesson Plans, Student Attitudes
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Wang, Guoqiao; Han, Ligang – English Language Teaching, 2020
The cultivation of students' autonomous learning ability is one of the significant and essential tasks of college English teaching. In this paper, the current situation of college students' insufficient autonomous English learning ability is thoroughly analyzed. Some effective and feasible strategies to cultivate students' autonomous English…
Descriptors: College Students, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Weizheng, Zheng – English Language Teaching, 2019
Foreign language teaching highlights the cultivation of the learners' communicative competence, because the main purpose of learning a foreign language is to use the target language to communicate. However, many students in higher institutions in China cannot speak English fluently after having learned English for more than ten years, although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Communication, Second Language Instruction
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Jiang, Shiyong – English Language Teaching, 2016
Foreign language teaching is a bilateral process in which both the teacher and students must play their roles effectively. However, lack of interaction is the problem many EFL teachers in China face. To make the teaching more effective, negotiation in the classroom becomes a must. This paper, based on the current situation of English teaching in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
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Ranaweera, Mahishi – English Language Teaching, 2015
Theoretical and empirical data support that the feedback given in small group activities promote second language acquisition. There are many studies that have examined the impact of interaction on second language acquisition in controlled language situations. This study examines the small group activity "conversation partner" in order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Maftoon, Parviz; Shakouri, Nima – English Language Teaching, 2013
Researchers have long grappled with situating the stance of interaction in SLA, but it is only recently that interaction has begun to receive consideration from SLA quarters. Delving into the nature of interaction and the prerequisite of interaction in real world, in general, and in classroom, in particular, the authors hold that based on…
Descriptors: Interaction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Role