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Jean Costa-Silva – Hispania, 2024
This study investigates the efforts towards promoting the decolonial teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language in instructional materials adopted in early Portuguese courses at higher education institutions in the United States. A framework for qualitative analysis of course materials, textbooks, and syllabi was designed based on Zavala's…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Decolonization, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
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Parker, Jerry L. – Hispania, 2023
Ahead of the recent wave of social justice movements (e.g., [All] Black Lives Matter (#BLM), #MeToo, #StopJewishHate, #StopAsianHate), in 2019 the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) declared a stance on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in language education. It affirmed that it "values diversity…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Diversity, Equal Education
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Plutino, Alessia; Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana; Brick, Billy – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper reports on the rationale for the implementation of a pilot project using a scenario-based Virtual Reality (VR) resource, originally developed by Health Sciences at Coventry University and now being repurposed for Italian language learning as a collaborative project with Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Health Sciences, Italian, Second Language Learning
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Muliyah, Pipit; Aminatun, Dyah – Journal of English Teaching, 2020
This study reports the result of a qualitative case study research design. This study aims to explore teachers' beliefs about teaching English for Vocational school, to investigate how those beliefs are reflected in classroom practices, and to explore that affect the shaping of teachers' beliefs in the teaching and learning process. The…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
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Zaiser, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2018
Teaching modern foreign languages is not all about communicative skills. It is also about testing functional abilities. While we still pay lip service to the creed of communicative language teaching, we have adopted test formats and teaching styles that follow a hidden agenda: the production of human capital. The main objective of teaching is…
Descriptors: Modern Language Curriculum, Second Language Instruction, Functional Literacy, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Federici, Theresa – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This paper outlines the rationale behind L2 process writing and Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) approaches adopted in order to design a course within a modern language degree to bridge the gap between language and culture elements of the programme. This was achieved by creating an environment that replicates that of a researcher and by placing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Process Approach (Writing), Active Learning, Inquiry
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Tholin, Jörgen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
In Swedish compulsory school, students can choose to study a modern language in addition to English, i.e., French, Spanish, or German. Since 1994, instruction time for modern languages has been extended, the learning objectives have been made more attainable, and national assessment materials have been introduced. The government made these changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Zorba, M. Galip; Arikan, Arda – Online Submission, 2016
The aim of this study is to understand the main principles of the CEFR and to what extent Anatolian High Schools' 9th grade EFL curriculum meet the principles advocated in that document. Hence, document analysis was used as a method to seek answers to the research questions set by a comparative analysis of the CEFR and Anatolian High Schools'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Grade 9, Second Language Instruction
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Han, Insuk – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study investigates Korean English teachers' responses to the current English Language Teaching (ELT) policies and reveals the attributes of their professional identity from their responses. Data collected from different narratives demonstrate that the teachers value the principles of communicative language teaching, but are not supportive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction