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Elena Andrei; April S. Salerno; Amanda K. Kibler – Language and Education, 2025
We used a Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) methodology to consider how 16 teachers in an English as a Second Language (ESL) assessment course discussed 'academic' versus 'social' language while assessing a multilingual student's oral language. Using a ­figured-worlds framework to explore teachers' underlying beliefs about the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Academic Language
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Melba Libia Cárdenas – TESOL Journal, 2024
Educational institutions, particularly those for higher education, seek to ensure their visibility and valid indicators for institutional accreditation processes through the publications of their teachers. Their projection is intimately associated with the circulation of their production in accredited publications whose reputations depend on their…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Periodicals, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zhansaya Aden; Akbope Akhmet; Akkibat Akzhigitova; Sandugash Sansyzbayeva; Lazzat Tursalieva – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
The research aimed at identifying approaches for building a bilingual individual through written an academic text, using five text types for achieving this goal. The analysis of text types used in this study were glossed, bilingual, dictionary assisted text, authentic, task-based text that reveals valuable insights into their effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
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Abderrahim Mamad; Tibor Vígh – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This systematic review focused on higher education teachers' and students' perceptions and practices of written feedback, as well as their relationships and differences in English as a foreign/second language and academic writing. This study aimed to identify empirical studies, describe their characteristics, summarize the findings, and make…
Descriptors: Written Language, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Edsoulla Chung; Jonathan Newton – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Although teachers have access to a great deal of scholarship on teaching academic vocabulary (AV), much less is known about the experiences and perceptions of English language learners regarding AV. To address this gap, we used an online metaphor elicitation survey and follow-up interviews to collect data from 432 undergraduates at a Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Dongying Li; Lian Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Academic literacy development is shaped by multiple individual and contextual factors that mutually interact with one another. Previous studies have identified some of the factors, but few explored their complex and dynamic interactions in students' writing practices. The study adopts a case study method to examine EFL learners' academic literacy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Language
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Afifah – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
The emergence of AI-driven writing tools has assisted students in writing academic papers. Although the positive benefits of these tools have been acknowledged, concerns regarding ethics emerge. This research is a qualitative study aiming to explore university students' perspectives on the use of AI tools for academic writing. This study sought to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Technology Uses in Education, Reliability
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Zahra Talebi – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
Writing is an important communicative language skill. It is an activity that requires a mental effort to "think out" the sentences and the ways of joining them to be meaningful and communicative. The present study was set up to the effectiveness of collaborative instruction on developing EFL students' writing ability and also to delve…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Umbreen Tariq – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities to improve the English essay writing of Pakistani university students. It highlights the role of CALL in the language proficiency model cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), which can enable second language learners to engage in more critical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Thi Minh Chau Tran; Bao Trang Thi Nguyen; Pham Thi Hong Nhung; Lien-Huong Vo; Van Huy Nguyen – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Our study examined the difficulties Vietnamese Masters (MA) in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages) students encountered while writing their MA theses. Using a a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, data were collected from 29 MA TESOL students who had completed their theses at a university in central Vietnam. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Theses, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Christina Hedman; Una Cunningham – Language Awareness, 2025
The paper builds on ethnographic fieldwork in a Language Introduction program for recently arrived students in an upper secondary school in Sweden. In a short period of time, this program prepares students for using Swedish as an academic language, in order to enter a national program. One response to this challenge is that schools allocate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Swedish, Secondary School Students
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Ye Yuan; Huan Li; Anan Sawaengdist – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This study attempts to explore the impact of ChatGPT on EFL learners' English writing and how this benefits from it. The three research objectives are to explore the reasons why EFL learners choose to use ChatGPT for their academic English writing, to examine how it affects EFL learners' academic English writing and define the challenges and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Computer Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence
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Abhinan Wongkittiporn – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
The current study examined Thai EFL Mattayom learners' pragmatic discourse of givenness via A-movement constructions. While previous studies focused on Thai undergraduate students and their error production in passive voice, this study innovatively contributes to the field by selecting a different group of participants. The participants in this…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mandy R. Menke – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Language immersion programs seek to develop multilingual, multiliterate individuals able to engage with academic content. Studies of immersion students' language development provide details regarding language proficiency and accuracy, yet they generally do not address how features of written, academic language, for example, syntactic and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Willem B. Hollmann; Kazuko Fujimoto; Masahiro Kuroda – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Modifying and hedging one's claims appropriately is an important characteristic of academic writing. This study focuses on the three main English modal verbs used to express "epistemic possibility" to avoid making strong statements, viz., "may", "might", and "could". The purpose of this corpus-based study is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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