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Franco-Camargo, Lubin Fernando; Camacho-Vásquez, Gonzalo – English Language Teaching, 2018
ICT role in education nowadays is not only important, but also effective; its advancement allows a vast opportunity to be explored by EFL teachers into the EFL classroom. This action-research study envisioned and carried out from our teaching practice basis with English language B1 level students at Weisheit institute. Observation and instruments…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites
Sizemore, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this two-phase, explanatory mixed methods study was to understand the benefits of teaching grammar from three different learning methods: face-to-face, online personalized learning lab and a blended learning method. The study obtained quantitative results from a pre and post-tests, a general survey and writing assignment rubrics…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Benefits, Conventional Instruction, Electronic Learning
Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Lines, Helen – Language and Education, 2018
Whilst historically there has been a widespread consensus that teaching grammar has no impact on students' attainment in writing, more recent research suggests that where a functionally oriented approach to grammar is meaningfully embedded within the teaching of writing, significant improvements in writing can be secured. A recent study, using a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design, Grammar
Castañeda, Daniel A.; Cho, Moon-Heum – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Interest in using mobile applications to enhance students' learning in Spanish classrooms runs high; however, little empirical research about their effects has been conducted. Using intentionally designed classroom activities to promote meaningful learning with a mobile application, we investigated the extent to which students of Spanish as a…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Hadley, Gregory; Charles, Maggie – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This paper investigates using data-driven learning (DDL) as a means of stimulating greater lexicogrammatical knowledge and reading speed among lower proficiency learners in an extensive reading program. For 16 weekly 90-minute sessions, an experimental group (12 students) used DDL materials created from a corpus developed from the Oxford Bookworms…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Vocabulary Skills
Ghahari, Shima; Farokhnia, Farzaneh – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2017
An experimental design was adopted in the present study to cross-compare the effect of two formative assessments, namely peer assessment (PA) and teacher assessment (TA), with summative assessment (SA) on the improvement of language learners' writing skill and self-efficacy. Writing excellence was operationalized by structural (grammar), lexical…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Interviews, Self Efficacy
Zandi, Hamed; Kaivanpanah, Shiva; Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
Contract learning as an approach to individualizing education in the context of assessment for learning is relatively underexplored in English as a Foreign Language instruction. The present study used a mixed-methods design to investigate its efficacy to provide feedback to students and improve self-directed learning. Furthermore, it studied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Andújar-Vaca, Alberto; Cruz-Martínez, Maria-Soledad – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2017
This study investigates the benefits of Mobile Mediated Communication (MMC) to develop oral skills in second-language learners. A total of 80 Spanish students taking a B1 English course at the University of Almería were studied in this research. According to treatment type, subjects were divided in two groups, experimental and control. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Mediated Communication
Jones, Christian; Carter, Ronald – International Journal of English Studies, 2014
This article reports on mixed methods classroom research carried out at a British university. The study investigates the effectiveness of two different explicit teaching frameworks, Illustration--Interaction--Induction (III) and Present--Practice--Produce (PPP) used to teach the same spoken discourse markers (DMs) to two different groups of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Webb, Marie; Doman, Evelyn – CATESOL Journal, 2016
This research investigates whether the flipped classroom can lead students to increased gains on learning outcomes in 2 ESL/EFL contexts in Macau, China, and the US. A pretest posttest quasi-experimental mixed-methods design (N = 64) was used to determine any differences in student achievement that might be associated with the flipped approach…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Homework, Technology Uses in Education
Xu, Xiaoqiu; Padilla, Amado M.; Silva, Duarte – Language Learning Journal, 2014
This study compared two groups of high school students in their learning of a third-year Mandarin level 3 class under two conditions: an intensive four-week (85.5 hours) summer program and a 22-week (88 hours) regular semester program. Students in both conditions had been classmates through four semesters of Mandarin instruction and had similar…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Summer Programs
Ping, Rebecca Lee Su – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Past research has found that many pre-university L2 learners, having completed an Intensive English Program (IEP) still have difficulty in undertaking various disciplines in English-speaking tertiary institutions and continue to exhibit numerous linguistic problems (Bialystok, 2001, Celce Murcia 2001). The purpose of this paper is to present the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Intensive Language Courses