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Tarrayo, Veronico N.; Anudin, Ali G. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The literature's focus on textbooks as an aspect of English language teaching (ELT) materials development (MD) has been significant and extensive. With the current setup of ELT within the context of online, distance, or flexible learning (FL) caused by the unprecedented and massive shift in education delivery during the pandemic, it remains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Material Development, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Maryam Barghamadi; Amanda Müller; James Rogers; Joanne Arciuli – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The study explored the impact of proficiency, frequency, L1-L2 congruency, and semantic transparency on the knowledge of multi-word units (MWUs) among Iranian L2 learners (N = 256). A gap-filling test was used to assess learners' productive knowledge, employing a high-frequency MWU list created with the lemmatised concgramming method. The list,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Diego Alins Breda – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Previous studies in second language teaching have called attention to the importance and benefits of including reading, especially graded readers (i.e., books adapted to the proficiency level of the students), in the L2 curriculum (Martinez, 2017; Rodrigo, 2018). On one hand, previous scholars have found the following benefits from graded readers:…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Reading Programs
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Tuyen Thanh Nguyen; John R. Baker; Thao Quang Le – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigated what features undergraduate EFL learners perceive as affecting the difficulty of model paragraphs. Four hundred and seventy-five Vietnamese undergraduates participated in a partial least squares structural equation model design. They ranked five paragraphs from easiest to most difficult and responded to a 10-point Likert…
Descriptors: Readability, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dawn Atkinson; Stacey Corbitt – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Despite coverage of materials development principles in the applied linguistics literature, principled production of open textbooks has not received attention. To address this gap and demonstrate the interdisciplinary potential of materials development research, the authors drew upon concurrent verbalization and interview data they collected while…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
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Lystiana Nurhayat Hakim; Utami Widiati; Sundari Purwaningsih; Anik Nunuk Wulyani; Wida Mulyanti – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Act TEFL Methodology is one of the main courses designed to provide English pre-service teachers with several newest methodologies in teaching English at different levels and learning contexts. However, to achieve good quality of them, the English education department needs to evaluate, arrange and formulate the course. In the process of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu-Cheng Pan; Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Taking into account the challenges of EFL vocabulary learning for East Asian learners, this study developed a set of experimental English vocabulary material with pictographic glosses which may stimulate students' situational interest (with dimensions of exploration intention, instant enjoyment, novelty, attention demand, challenge, and total…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Asians, Pictorial Stimuli, Vocabulary Development
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Zeynep Aksit; Sükran Saygi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Vocabulary research provides valuable information on the construct of word knowledge (WK), and suggests ways to develop language learners' lexicon, arguably, the backbone of communication. The present study explores EFL students' vocabulary learning behavior; more specifically, the aspects of WK components they intentionally focus on when learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Emily Palese – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In university-level composition courses, assignment prompts are fundamental in shaping students' understanding of major writing projects. Aiming to be instructive and descriptive while also clear and concise, instructors use a series of moves (Swales, 1990) and modals in writing assignment prompts to express requirements, suggestions, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Cues, Prompting
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Xiaodong Zhang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
This qualitative case study explores the interaction between Chinese college student writers' voices and their teacher's use of online materials during one semester-long writing course. It shows that, when acted upon selectively and critically, students' voices can potentially improve their teacher's use of online materials. This practice, in…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Material Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mambu, Joseph Ernest – TESOL Journal, 2022
The current case study investigated how teacher-learners (TLs) in an Indonesia-based undergraduate English language teacher education program learned to apply critical pedagogy (CP) when co-constructing a critical English language teaching (ELT) curriculum with English language learners (ELLs). CP insights into ELT and second language teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Jones, Wayne; McKeown, Kara; Littlewood, Suzanne – ELT Journal, 2022
While there are a variety of reasons for implementing English medium instruction (EMI) at higher-education institutions (HEIs) worldwide, this decision is often made without consideration of its potential impact on student learning. Federal HEIs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are no exception. With English language admission standards at…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Osman, Norasyikin; Noor, Siti Salwa Mohd; Rouyan, Nurazan Mohmad; Hat, Norhayati Che – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Microsoft PowerPoint was one of the Microsoft Office applications developed by Microsoft since 1990 and has been used widely for disseminating information and presenting reports. PowerPoints are normally produced in slides to be projected on the screen or whiteboard for the audience to see. However, the strengths of PowerPoint go beyond slide…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Pack, Austin; Maloney, Jeffrey – Teaching English with Technology, 2023
With recent public access to large language models via chatbots, the field of language education is seeing unprecedented levels of interest in how AI will affect language learning and teaching. As attention is primarily focused on student misuse of the technology, the potential affordances of generative AI tools may often be overlooked. In this…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Man Machine Systems, Language Acquisition
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María Orcasitas-Vicandi; Andrea Perales-Fernández-de-Gamboa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
In recent years multilingual approaches to teaching have been widely discussed and translanguaging has been proposed as a pedagogy that offers very positive results in many contexts. Overall, the need to reverse monolingual assumptions among teachers and to adapt pedagogical translanguaging to each context has been highlighted. For that purpose,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Language Minorities, Code Switching (Language)
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