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Karabiyik, Ceyhun – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the interaction between student engagement and achievement. The study sample was composed of 296 at Ufuk University in Ankara, Turkey. The participants were enrolled in the intensive English language program of the foreign language Preparatory School of the institution. Data collection was carried out with…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yan, Jiaolan; Zhang, Weiran; Yu, Yuan; Chang, Jie; Ding, Guangwei – English Language Teaching, 2015
Based on the description of implementation of College English oral test from the points of the necessity, feasibility, and implementation process, this study analyzed the current situation of university students' oral English, oral English ability, the college entrance examination results, and a band-4 written test and established their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), College English, Oral English
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Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This study examines the effect of communication strategy instruction on EFL students' oral communicative ability and their strategic competence. In a 14-week English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course (English Use II) based on Communicative Language Teaching approach, 80 learners were divided into two groups. The strategy training group (n = 44)…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Jensen, Signe Hannibal – CALICO Journal, 2017
This article presents a study of Danish young English language learners' (YELLs') contact with and use of Extramural English (EE) (N = 107, aged 8 [n = 49] and 10 [n = 58]). They have received little formal English instruction: two lessons per week for one year. Data on EE-habits were collected with a one-week language diary (self-report with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Obari, Hiroyuki – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Mobile (m)-learning is motivating to learners to improve foreign language skills, as it offers them a rich, informal, contextual, and ubiquitous learning environment. In this paper I report on the results of two empirical studies that focused on two projects, both of which incorporated e-learning and m-learning, to determine if a blended-learning…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Uses in Education, Blended Learning, English (Second Language)
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Zhang, Ying; Elder, Catherine – Language Testing, 2011
This paper reports the findings of an empirical study on ESL/EFL teachers' evaluation and interpretation of oral English proficiency as elicited by the national College English Test-Spoken English Test (CET-SET) of China. Informed by debates on the issue of native speaker (NS) norms which have become the focus of attention in recent years, this…
Descriptors: Language Tests, College English, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
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Sanders, Lealane; Alley, David – Dimension, 2013
This study examines the academic experiences of heritage Spanish-speakers who were placed in a traditional Spanish class for non-Spanish speakers at the secondary level. Each of the participants in the study demonstrated advanced-levels of oral proficiency in Spanish yet each was placed in a beginning-level Spanish class. An ethnographic case…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Native Language, Secondary School Students, Spanish Speaking
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Plough, India C.; Briggs, Sarah L.; Van Bonn, Sarah – Language Testing, 2010
The study reported here examined the evaluation criteria used to assess the proficiency and effectiveness of the language produced in an oral performance test of English conducted in an American university context. Empirical methods were used to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively transcriptions of the Oral English Tests (OET) of 44…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Listening Comprehension, Evaluators, Performance Tests
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Yang, Ya-Ting C.; Gamble, Jeffrey; Tang, Shiun-Yi S. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The challenge of providing authentic experiences and interactions for fostering oral proficiency and motivation in foreign languages is an opportunity for innovation in educational technology and instructional design. Although several recent innovations have received the attention of scholars, empirical investigation and validation is often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Discussion
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Liu, Meihua; Jackson, Jane – TESL Canada Journal, 2009
Reticence in foreign language classes has long been a challenge for both teachers and students. With the advent of globalization, there is a pressing need for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers to help reticent students develop the skills and confidence needed to take an active role in oral English lessons. This article reports on a…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Speech Communication, Class Activities, Interpersonal Communication
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Kieffer, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
This study contrasts growth trajectories in English reading for 2 groups of language minority (LM) learners--those who enter kindergarten with limited oral English proficiency and those who enter kindergarten proficient in oral English--with that of native English speakers. Fitting a multilevel model for change to longitudinal data on a nationally…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Risk, Kindergarten, Oral English
Hardman, Jocelyn Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the intelligibility of Chinese graduate students to their Indian, Chinese, Korean, and American peers. Specifically, the researcher sought to determine the teaching priorities for English for Academic Purposes in the US, where listeners have a wide variety of native languages. Research on Second Language Acquisition…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Graduate Students, Sentences, Phonology
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Hsu, Hui-Yin; Wang, Shiang-Kwei; Comac, Linda – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This pilot study investigates how the use of audioblogs can help to meet an instructor's need to improve instruction in English as a second language (ESL). In this study, the instructor uses audioblogs to manage oral assignments, to interact with learners, and to evaluate performance outcomes. Learners record oral assignments through cellular…
Descriptors: Assignments, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Experience, Oral English
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Patricia R. Kelly; Francisco-Xavier Gomez-Bellenge; Jing Chen; Melissa M. Schulz – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
This study investigated the efficacy of Reading Recovery[R] (RR) with first grade English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools by examining the literacy outcomes of ELLs compared with their native English-speaking (NES) peers, who were also enrolled in RR. We also explored how ELLs' fall oral English proficiency levels were related to their…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Phonemics, Bilingual Education, Reading Failure
Amaki, Yuki – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2008
Public school students in Japan must take English as a required subject for three years in junior high school and for three more years in senior high school. In spite of the amount of classroom time invested, and in spite of the available learning support services, the foreign Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) system included, the English…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Speech Communication, Social Integration, Foreign Countries
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