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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
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Megan DeVoss; Robert A. Griffin; Diana Mindrila – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2024
This quantitative study investigated the relationship between ESOL co-teacher content certification and student achievement in secondary classrooms. The sample consisted of English Learners (ELs; N = 185) in a suburban district in Georgia. The study focused on three core content subjects: Algebra, Biology, and Economics. Content certification was…
Descriptors: School Districts, Suburban Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Uzun, Kutay – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
Scoring essays written in L2 is one of the most arduous and time-taking tasks for language teachers due to the heavy work involved in the process. In this respect, the present study aimed to build a regression model to predict essay quality using only one or two rhetorical moves in the setting of an English Language Teaching department in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essays, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Abdelkrim Dekhakhena – Online Submission, 2023
Teacher absenteeism significantly impacts student achievement in the EFL acquisition process, as it is a strong predictor of exam scores and has a direct negative impact on learning. Previous studies have shown that teacher absenteeism leads to low exam scores, disrupting the learning process and thwarting psychological enthusiasm. This paper aims…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Dewaele, Livia – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Previous research has considered fluctuations in students' foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) over months or years (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014, 2016). However, there has been no investigation of the effect of the teacher on these emotions at a single point in time. In this study, we investigate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Scores
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Dashti, Laleh; Razmjoo, Seyyed Ayatollah – Cogent Education, 2020
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore Iranian IELTS candidates' strengths and weaknesses in IELTS Speaking Test in terms of IELTS's four speaking assessment criteria, namely Fluency and Coherence (FlC), Lexical Resource (LR), Grammar Range and Accuracy (GRA), and Pronunciation (Pro). It also aimed to examine the discourse features…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Speech Communication
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
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Kormos, Judit; Denes, Mariann – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
The research reported in this paper explores which variables predict native and non-native speaking teachers' perception of fluency and distinguish fluent from non-fluent L2 learners. In addition to traditional measures of the quality of students' output such as accuracy and lexical diversity, we investigated speech samples collected from 16…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Native Speakers, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning