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Ball, Jessica; Smith, Mariam – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Multilingual education (MLE) is increasingly recognized as a means to ensure equitable access to education for children with a nondominant first language and to retain endangered languages. UNESCO has championed MLE and identified 10 essential components in planning implementation of MLE implementation. This article examines these 10 components in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Vikøy, Aasne; Haukås, Åsta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
The L1 subject is a central meeting place for all students regardless of their linguistic backgrounds. Thus explorations of multilingualism in the L1 subject provide the potential for enhancing all students' multilinguality. In Norway, several policy papers have emphasised the important role of the L1 Norwegian subject in promoting students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Kalinowski, Eva; Gronostaj, Anna; Vock, Miriam – AERA Open, 2019
This review summarizes features of professional development programs that aim to prepare in-service teachers to improve students' academic language proficiency when teaching subject areas. The 38 studies reviewed suggest that all of the profiled interventions were effective to some extent. The programs share many characteristics considered…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Language Proficiency, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
Ekaterina Tabenkina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present project is a research-based and practice-tested online synchronous curriculum for English language learners with the Russian language mother tongue. The curriculum's theoretical component is grounded in Vygotsky's, Leont'ev', and Engestrom's "Cultural Historical Activity Theory" as well as in scholarly papers on the influence…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Thane, Patrick D. – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
Early research on the Aspect Hypothesis yielded a rigid developmental sequence for the acquisition of grammatical aspect, in which developing L2 learners applied morphemes to mark aspect in accordance with the inherent lexical aspect of verbal prototypes. While studies from a variety of L2 backgrounds have amassed evidence for this hypothesis,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistic Theory, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
The article "Some Important Facts about Language Teaching/Learning: Basics and Assumptions" by Dr. Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah explores the foundational elements of language teaching and learning. It emphasizes the importance of language proficiency for personal, social, and professional success, highlighting the cognitive and societal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Mahdi, Dawood Ahmed – SAGE Open, 2022
This study examines the correlation existing between students speaking competency and their interaction with multimedia devices in the classroom learning process. A mixed-method study design has been employed to explore the impact of an interactive multimedia environment on their presentation and speaking skills. Initially, 46 Arabic-speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
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Llanes, Àngels; Cots, Josep M. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study compares the language proficiency gains of two groups of students taking a business English course module in a bilingual university in Catalonia (Spain). Whereas one of these groups followed a 'translanguaging' or 'plurilingual' pedagogy, the other followed a strictly monolingual approach. Participants were 54 mostly Catalan/Spanish…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Magda L. Kitano; Katsuhiro Chiba – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
This study investigated the recall of words learned through two deliberate learning techniques, word cards and list learning. While the literature points to word cards as being more effective, Japanese learners of English are seen to prefer list learning, which may indicate unique learning styles stemming from a non-alphabetic L1. To test the…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Instructional Materials, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Lopez, Elaine – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Many explanations have been offered for the widely attested problems second language (L2) learners experience with the English article system. One influential proposal from formal linguistics is the Article Choice Parameter and associated Fluctuation Hypothesis, which states that learners of English fluctuate between correct and incorrect usage by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sowell, Jimalee – English Teaching Forum, 2019
The use of writing models with nonnative English speakers has received a certain amount of criticism--especially from teachers whose students copy models in their entirety or follow them too closely. The misuse of models has brought some teachers to the point where they believe that the best kind of pedagogy is to abandon writing models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Discourse Modes
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Iranmanesh, Asma; Darani, Laya Heidari – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
For years, finding ways and materials to make the learning experience for EFL learners more inspiring and fruitful has been one of the most important tasks of English teaching. The main aim of this study was to examine the effects of movies and gender on learning English idiomatic and everyday expressions among Iranian EFL learners. The sample of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Films
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Hatipoglu, Çiler; Algi, Sedef – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
Writing argumentative paragraphs is challenging even in one's first language (L1) since in order to fulfil their goals writers need to carefully choose among the available metadiscoursive tools and skilfully balance their use. Writing in a foreign language (L2) is even more challenging because language learners are usually familiar only with a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
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Zhao, Ting; Ren, Juan – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The present study aims to investigate the effects of gloss use, L2-gloss frequency and learner proficiency on incidental L2 lexical acquisition. A total of 163 university students in China were assigned to one of the three reading conditions: no gloss (NG), higher frequency L2 gloss (HFLG) and lower frequency L2 gloss (LFLG). The participants read…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Recall (Psychology)
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Can, Cem – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
As learner corpora have presently become readily accessible, it is practicable to examine interlanguage errors and carry out error analysis (EA) on learner-generated texts. The data available in a learner corpus enable researchers to investigate authentic learner errors and their respective frequencies in terms of types and tokens as well as…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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