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Gürleyik, Sinan; Akdemir, Elif – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Developing curriculum to enhance student learning is the primer purpose of all curricular activities. Availability of recent tools supporting to teach various skills including reading, listening, speaking and writing has opened a new avenue for curricular activities in technology-enhanced learning environments. Understanding the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Technology Uses in Education
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Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Educational Action Research, 2017
Action research (AR)--as a participatory, problem-oriented methodology--has been employed recently in Egypt to resolve complicated classroom and learning problems, and provide context-based solutions. Simultaneously, new "special education" courses have been included recently in the university bylaws of Egyptian colleges of education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Yagiz, Oktay; Aydin, Burcu; Akdemir, Ahmet Selçuk – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
This study reviews a selected sample of 274 research articles on ELT, published between 2005 and 2015 in Turkish contexts. In the study, 15 journals in ULAKBIM database and articles from national and international journals accessed according to convenience sampling method were surveyed and relevant articles were obtained. A content analysis was…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Periodicals, Content Analysis, Research Design
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Yüksel, H. Gülru – South African Journal of Education, 2014
This longitudinal study aimed to trace changes in Turkish pre-service English as a foreign language teachers' self-efficacy over a year, and to detect possible sources of information influencing their efficacy. Utilizing concurrent mixed model design of Creswell (2003) both qualitative and quantitative data was collected. A total of 40 pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Second Language Learning
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Van Houtven, Tine; Peters, Elke; Van den Branden, Kris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
In recent years, the student population enrolling in Flemish higher education has become increasingly diverse. Whereas teacher training institutes used to attract mainly students with a diploma of general secondary education, the proportion of students with a technical or vocational educational background has grown substantially over the past ten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Needs, Needs Assessment
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Pawlak, Miroslaw – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
When we examine the empirical investigations of motivation in second and foreign language learning, even those drawing upon the latest theoretical paradigms, such as the L2 motivational self system (Dörnyei, 2009), it becomes clear that many of them still fail to take account of its dynamic character and temporal variation. This may be surprising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Castro Garcés, Angela Yicely; López Olivera, Silvio Fabián – HOW, 2014
This paper reports on the findings of a research study carried out in the Bachelor of Arts in English program of study at a Colombian university. It aims at identifying the communication strategies used by four pre-service English teachers with A2 and B2 levels of language proficiency and, also, at examining how these communication strategies…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Preservice Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English Teachers
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Díaz Ramírez, Martha Isabel – HOW, 2014
This article presents the findings of an action research study on developing learner autonomy through project work in an English for Specific Purposes class. The study was conducted at a Colombian regional and public university with environmental engineering undergraduates. The instruments for data collection were field notes, semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Environmental Education
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Fajaria, Indah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
There are such myriad ideas upon English teaching-learning process. Everybody can share each fabulous idea through various media. One of fun English learnings that can motivate EFL students' eagerness to practice English easily is an outdoor class activity. This project could sometimes deals with an outbound activities which provide the numerous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Outdoor Education, Class Activities
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Wilson, Rosemary; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Second Language Research, 2010
The present article focuses on data collection through web questionnaires, as opposed to the traditional pen-and-paper method for research in second language acquisition and bilingualism. It is argued that web questionnaires, which have been used quite widely in psychology, have the advantage of reaching out to a larger and more diverse pool of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Internet, Language Acquisition
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Nakatani, Yasuo – Modern Language Journal, 2010
This article considers whether the use of specific communication strategies can improve learners' English proficiency in communicative tasks. Japanese college students (n= 62) participated in a 12-week course of English lessons using a communicative approach with strategy training. To investigate the influence of specific strategy use, their…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
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Freed, Barbara F.; Dewey, Dan P.; Segalowitz, Norman; Halter, Randall – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
Efforts to gather data of various sorts--demographics, language-learning history, contact with native speakers, use of the language in the field--as they relate to participants in SLA research studies are inherent to understanding more about language acquisition and use. Scholars frequently develop questionnaires of their own, which are rarely…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Language Acquisition, Questionnaires, Data Collection
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Cotterall, Sara – System, 1995
Argues that before autonomous approaches to language learning are implemented, it is necessary to gauge learners' readiness for the behavioral change that autonomy implies. Data collected from a questionnaire on learner beliefs about language learning is presented. Factor analysis of subjects' responses indicated six underlying dimensions. (41…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Data Collection, Factor Analysis, Independent Study
Matsumoto, Kazuko – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1993
Two types of verbal-report data (concurrent and retrospective) and four major introspective methods used in second-language research (L2) (thinking-aloud, questionnaires, interviews, diary-keeping) are described in a discussion of introspective L2 research studies. It is argued that, though incomplete, verbal reports from informant-learners offer…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Language Research
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Shi, Lijing – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2006
With an increasing number of Chinese learners pursuing higher education in Western universities, the characteristics of Chinese students have raised many discussions and debates (e.g. Carson, 1992; Watkins & Biggs, 2001). Two contradictory views are commonly reflected in the existing literature: being passive, quiet, submissive, or disciplined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Middle School Students, Asian Culture
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