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Joshua Wedlock; Nick Wilson – TESOL in Context, 2024
Considering the need for pedagogically effective learning activities and materials to support language learning, particularly within teacher-led instruction, it is curious that at present there is no overarching, research-based framework available to educators to draw from when designing and implementing such activities and materials. To address…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Educational Psychology, Second Language Learning, Learning Activities
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Yaniafari, Rahmati Putri; Rihardini, Ajeng Ayu; Wiradimadja, Agung – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
English has emerged as the language of scientific communication (Björkman, 2011; Jenkins, 2006). Given the significance of English, in addition to ESP courses that have been incorporated in university curriculum, the CLIL method can be one of the choices for improving students' English mastery. Before implementing CLIL and creating the necessary…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Barghamadi, Maryam; Rogers, James; Muller, Amanda – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Knowledge of multi-word units (MWUs) helps facilitate communicative fluency, and research on them has gained more and more attention in recent years concerning teaching methods and designing materials for second language (L2) acquisition. Incidental and intentional vocabulary learning are two dominant approaches to acquiring MWUs. In lexical…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Coachman, Erika de Freitas; Fernandes, Izabelle da Silva – AILA Review, 2023
The aim of this paper is to analyze a set of didactic materials developed to teach English as an Additional Language at a Brazilian public school in Rio de Janeiro. Such materials were designed to invite 7th grade students with diverse social, racial, and economic backgrounds to learn about the world and the English language from viewpoints that…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yasemin Kirkgöz – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Rebecca L. Oxford's contributions to academia extend well beyond language learning strategy research, for which she is well known, to embrace peace education in language classrooms. Inspired by her peace education philosophy, this study first describes the influence of Oxford's scholarly research in peace approach. Then, it presents a case study…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Peace, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
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Reimão, Ana – Research-publishing.net, 2020
"Micro-contos," or micro-fiction, are very short and concise literary texts that require close-reading and inference from the reader. In this case study, I will describe how I have used these widely available texts in a Portuguese A2/B1 language module to develop analytical and other soft skills. I will demonstrate how this activity…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Skill Development, Fiction, Critical Reading
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Al-Mousawi, Sayed Ahmad – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper sets out to explore English language materials development since the emergence of communicative language learning (CLT). Many pedagogical approaches have been innovated to reach the goal of CLT. It will discuss the most common approach of English language materials development used nowadays. This paper specifically introduces a new…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Durand, Sergio – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
English Language Teaching (ELT) materials are not only pedagogical sources, but they also actively build a vision of reality, often reproducing, legitimizing and perpetuating certain hegemonic discourses. Even if injustice and inequalities are denounced in some materials, global issues are just mentioned rather than problematized and discriminated…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Disproportionate Representation, Ethnic Groups, Second Language Learning
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Zahra Alimorad; Saideh Akbarzadeh – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Considering the importance of willingness to communicate (WTC) as a critical component of effective pedagogy (MacIntyre et al., 1998), the present qualitative study investigated the affordances extramural digital settings (EDSs), as newly emerged popular environments, offer to advanced EFL learners. To this aim, we asked a purposeful sample of 8…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
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Rohmah, Farida Noor – Journal of English Teaching, 2019
This research aimed at developing computer-based instructional media using Adobe Flash for the tenth graders' English speaking skill material. The study employed research and development method. The results showed (1) the product is a computer-based instructional media in a combined format of tutorial and drilling facilitating semi-interactive…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Speech Communication
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Nekrasova-Beker, Tatiana; Becker, Anthony; Sharpe, Angela – TESOL Journal, 2019
With an increasing need for teaching discipline-specific language to second language (L2) learners, language instructors are tasked with a challenging objective to target the vocabulary that is necessary for students to understand and produce discipline-specific discourse. To meet this objective, language corpora and corpus software have been used…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Janine J. Darragh; Gina Mikel Petrie; Stan Pichinevskiy – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Educative Curriculum Materials (ECMs) are teaching materials that have the dual function of providing learning activities to students and providing professional development to the teachers that use them. Answering a call for professional development opportunities, and with input from English teachers in rural Nicaraguan schools, the designers…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kilickaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2019
The current study comprises the views of the pre-service English language teachers on the process of coursebook evaluation and creating supplementary activities for the coursebook written for the fifth graders at middle schools in Turkey. The participants included seniors in the Department of Foreign Language Education at a state university in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Menggo, Sebastianus; Suastra, I. Made; Budiarsa, Made; Padmadewi, Ni Nyoman – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Needs analysis plays a vital role in developing speaking material and results in a powerful tool that helps teachers to design materials in line with the learners' target needs and learning needs. The aims of this research are to analyse the types of learners' target needs and learning needs for material development in the academic…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Needs Assessment
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Kubler, Cornelius C. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article discusses principles involved in developing course materials for technology-mediated Chinese language learning, with examples from a new course designed to take into account the needs of distance and independent learners. Which learning environment is most efficient for a given learning activity needs to be carefully considered. It…
Descriptors: Material Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Activities
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