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Lia Brenneman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While the use of educational technology in online instruction has increased in higher education, it is still limited in intensive, academic English programs. Precipitated by COVID-19, U.S. Intensive English Programs (IEPs) quickly transitioned from face-to-face (F2F) instruction to the emergency remote teaching environment (ERTE) when the public…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Truc Thanh Thi Ly – English Australia Journal, 2018
This research applies a mixed-methods approach to explore teachers' perceptions of task-based language pedagogy and its implementation in the ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) setting. The sources of data were gathered in two phases, comprising an online survey with 58 respondents from various ELICOS colleges across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Intensive Language Courses, Language Teachers
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Mansouri, Behzad; Jami, Parvaneh Yaghoubi; Salmani, Behrooz Yaghmaeyan – TESL-EJ, 2019
Acknowledging the distinction between two types of form-focused instruction (FFI) on grammar, this study investigated learners and teachers' stated beliefs about isolated and integrated FFI. Placed in two major groups (ESL and EFL), 120 teachers and 280 learners were recruited from college-wide Intensive English Programs in Iran and USA. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Aksoy, Erdem; Bozdogan, Derya; Akbas, Ufuk; Seferoglu, Gölge – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
In search of ways to better the foreign language proficiency levels of their citizens, governments frequently announce macro foreign language policies. In Turkey, the latest education reform in 2013 lowered the onset of foreign language learning to the second grade. The piloting of the latest foreign language policy is in progress to transform the…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Tsui, Amy B. M. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2007
This article explores teachers' identity formation through a narrative inquiry of the professional identity of an EFL teacher, Minfang, in the People's Republic of China. Drawing on Wenger's (1998) social theory of identity formation as a dual process of identification and negotiation of meanings, it examines the lived experience of Minfang as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Oxford, Rebecca L.; Park, Young Ye – System, 1998
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a five-week summer-intensive course in English to improve students' opportunities for speaking, confidence about, and communicative competence in English. The effect of the program on English teachers' roles and the ways they are perceived by students and administrators is…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes