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Yining Wang; Kexin Han; Paul Ginns – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Cognitive load theory's incorporation of evolutionary perspectives suggests biologically primary knowledge, acquired through evolutionary processes, can support students in learning biologically secondary knowledge, the focus of typical educational curricula. Touch-based interactions using the hands are likely to be biologically primary. The…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Learning Processes, Difficulty Level
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Yue Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
English medium instruction (EMI) can become pantomime in the context of higher education, and such non-participation can be shaped and explained by learners' refusing to invest in the English learning practices while performing their learner/speaker/user identities. Taking a Bourdieusian stance on this issue, the study discusses techno-reflective…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Sihan Zhou; Nathan Thomas – Language and Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) has burgeoned alongside two decades of L2 self-regulated learning research. In both areas, listening remains under-researched, longitudinal designs are under-employed, and in-depth studies are necessary to unpack learner development. In a context believed to initiate self-regulated learning, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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García-Senín, Stéphanie; Arguedas, Marta; Daradoumis, Thanasis – Research on Education and Media, 2022
The assessment of students' academic achievements helps to increase learning effectiveness by encouraging each student to recognise his/her strengths and areas for improvement. To do so, pedagogical activities that encourage direct and frequent evaluation must be considered. This paper focuses on how a learning management system such as Google…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, STEM Education, Art Education, Academic Achievement
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Custers, Benedikte; Magalhães, António M. – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Starting from the assumption that 'education' in higher education (HE) is a floating signifier and can take on different meanings, we problematise the problem representations regarding the notion of 'education' in HE. We hereby focus on the analysis of problem representations in a set of Communications on the Modernisation Agenda for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
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Alfred W. T. Lo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
Despite the global adoption of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and extensive research on the effectiveness (product-oriented) and classroom interactions (process-oriented) of CLIL, existing studies have overlooked the motivational beliefs and metacognitive strategies of CLIL students. Hence, there is a need for a…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Independent Study
Mitali Thatte; Katie Makar – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
This study was conducted in Maharashtra, India with children studying in a regional medium (Marathi) government school. In Marathi, the translation of the word 'about' is not very commonly used. The aim of the study was to see how the children used uncertain language about prediction while engaged in a statistical investigation and how children…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Native Language, Language of Instruction
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El Mouhayar, Rabih – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This research compares the use of triadic dialogue and translanguaging in two multilingual grade seven classrooms where algebra is taught in a foreign language. Ten lessons in one classroom that involve teaching properties and seven lessons in another classroom that involve teaching conventions were video- and audio-recoded and then transcribed.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language
Bojsen, Heidi, Ed.; Daryai-Hansen, Petra, Ed.; Holmen, Anne, Ed.; Risager, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Nikolay Slavkov – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
Linguistic risks are situations in which learners are pushed out of their comfort zone to use the target language in meaningful and authentic settings. This article outlines a novel pedagogical and research approach to language learning through linguistic risk-taking. I review the construct of linguistic risk from interdisciplinary perspectives…
Descriptors: Risk, Language Usage, French, Second Language Learning
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Komori-Glatz, Miya; Smit, Ute – Applied Linguistics, 2022
The rise of English-medium education has led to considerable academic interest in communicative practices in multilingual university settings. However, there is still little research into disciplinary knowledge construction in higher education contexts where English is the academic lingua franca. To address this gap, we embrace the central role of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Universities, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sybille Heinzmann; Zeynep Köylü; Kristina Ehrsam – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This paper presents insights from two interview studies with the aim of shedding light on the learning potential of studying abroad in an area where English is used as a lingua franca. The majority of previous research on study abroad focuses on students' experiences of studying abroad in target-language regions, for example learners of English…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Juan José Calvo Valiente; Ángela Gómez López; Eva Morón Olivares; Vicente Sanjosé López – Reading Psychology, 2024
Metacognitive skills are important for text comprehension, especially at university where most learning processes are unsupervised, and students rely on self-control and regulation when reading for comprehension. In today's universities, English as L2 has become the vehicle language for teaching and learning. However, some studies have concluded…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Reading Processes, Error Patterns, English (Second Language)
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D.A.G. Ariyasinghe; Neelakshi Chandrasena Premawardhena – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2025
Self-Directed Language Learning (SDLL) which aims at developing learner autonomy, improves learner engagement since learners are able to use higher-level critical thinking. Thus, the present study was conducted in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom in Sri Lanka, in order to investigate how to incorporate Self-Directed Learning in the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study
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Escobar-Alméciga, Wilder Yesid – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
Education in Spain and Latin America has been experiencing an ever-increasing use of English as a medium of instruction at all levels and across curricula. Bringing the vast research-literature into a reflective dialogue is paramount to advancing the discipline and to refining English teaching practices. As such, this literature review…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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