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Peijian Paul Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To sustain students' continuous learning in a COVID-19 pandemic context, schools and universities have shifted traditional classroom teaching to synchronous online teaching. However, there is limited understanding of acceptance and adoption of synchronous online teaching by university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, English (Second Language)
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Malicka, Aleksandra – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study set out to test the theoretical premise of the SSARC model of pedagogic task sequencing, which postulates that tasks should be sequenced for learners from cognitively simple to complex. This experiment compared the performance of three tasks differing in cognitive complexity in a simple-complex sequence versus in the absence of any…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Language Fluency, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Kiely, Richard; Davis, Matt – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This article explores teacher learning in the UK English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) context. We draw on data from a continuing professional development (CPD) initiative to understand how learning is shaped by collaborative discussion with others and by reading from the language classroom research literature. The CPD programme--designed…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Literature, Faculty Development, English (Second Language)
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Barbieri, Federica; Eckhardt, Suzanne E. B. – Language Teaching Research, 2007
Arguing that the introduction of corpus linguistics in teaching materials and the language classroom should be informed by theories and principles of SLA, this paper presents a case study illustrating how corpus-based findings on reported speech can be integrated into a form-focused model of instruction. After overviewing previous work which…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Hanaoka, Osamu – Language Teaching Research, 2007
While the noticing function of output has been increasingly researched by a number of applied linguists, the nature of such noticing and its effect on subsequent learning in the context of EFL writing have not been fully investigated. In a four-stage writing task consisting of output, comparison, and two revisions, this study examined what…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, College Students
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Tajino, Akira; Smith, Craig – Language Teaching Research, 2005
This paper aims to demonstrate that Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), a soft systems approach developed in management studies (see Checkland, 1981), can be usefully linked with Exploratory Practice (EP), a form of practitioner research for language classrooms. Some compatible SSM and EP characteristics, in tandem, could enhance continual efforts to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Classroom Research, Systems Approach, Teaching Methods