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Mehrdad Yousefpoori-Naeim; Surina He; Ying Cui; Maria Cutumisu – International Review of Education, 2024
In addition to pre- and in-service teacher education programmes, teachers' autonomous reading of content related to their work contributes significantly to their professional development. This study investigated the factors that influenced the professional reading of 10,469 language teachers in the 2018 dataset of the Programme for International…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Predictor Variables, Reading Habits, Teacher Background
Guillermo Colls; Melissa Reeve – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2024
The past 10 years have seen a major shift in English and English as a Second Language (ESL) placement and pedagogy in California's Community Colleges (CCC), driven by a developmental education reform movement known as acceleration. Popularized by the faculty-led California Acceleration Project (CAP), the acceleration movement focused on reducing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Acceleration (Education), English (Second Language)
Espinosa-Cevallos, Ligia Fernanda; Cortez-Martínez, Bertha Susana; Soto, Sandy T. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This study aims to explore the effects of implementing the literature circles strategy for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in levels 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of a public university in the Amazon Region of Ecuador. For this purpose, three English language teachers conducted some action research. Two hundred fourteen students of English Arts…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Student Attitudes, Group Discussion, Teaching Methods
Law, James; Barny, David; Poulin, Rachel – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
Although L2 reading is traditionally framed as an individual enterprise, digital annotation tools (DATs) have recently been developed allowing groups of readers to collaborate and provide mutual scaffolding through collective annotation of texts (Blyth, 2014; Thoms, Sung, & Poole, 2017). These tools reframe L2 reading as an interactive process…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Rafique, Jasiya – Online Submission, 2019
Teaching of English in Saudi Arabia is a necessitous concern in education. The administration, planners, syllabus designers, textbook writers, teachers, and government have been trying to advance the teaching/learning of English in the country. The teachers are capable, experienced and the infrastructural facilities including e-information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Fawzia, Al Seyabi; Salwa, Al Rashdi – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study aims at identifying the current practices regarding the implementation of extensive reading in Omani public schools. The study employed a content analysis sheet to analyze the extensive reading work of 300 students. Semi-structured interviews were also held with 15 teachers and 5 regional supervisors from Al-Dakhilyia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Public Schools, Content Analysis
Kilickaya, Ferit – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2017
This study used a post-test-only control group experimental design to determine the effects of prelecture online quizzes on the students' perceived preparation and academic performance. The participants included 54 pre-service Turkish teachers of English enrolled at a state university in Turkey. The participants were randomly selected from a list…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Research Design, Control Groups
Bouckaert, Marina – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This article presents an overview of a newly designed course in materials development at a teacher education institute in the Netherlands. It also includes an evaluation of the course by its participants, student teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Dutch secondary schools. The course overview describes the aims and objectives of the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Damen, Louise – 1982
Considerations for identifying the stages of cultural learning of individual students of English as a second language (ESL) are discussed. It is suggested that culture shock, or the shock of the new, is a common experience for those learning a second language in a second culture, and that anger, unhappiness, frustration, and even illness may…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Virgil – 1969
Guidelines for developing cross-cultural awareness and understanding in high school students studying a second language are offered to teachers of all languages, but more detailed references are supplied for the teacher of Spanish. Suggestions include teaching the familiar first, presenting a well-rounded view of the target culture, balancing the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context