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Gilquin, Gaëtanelle – Language Teaching, 2022
This paper considers the issue of the norm in the context of learner corpus research and its implications for foreign language teaching. It seeks to answer three main questions: Does learner corpus research require a native norm? What corpus-derived norms are available and how do we choose? What do we do with these norms in the classroom? The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alshumaimeri, Yousif A. – Online Submission, 2022
Educational change is vital for a number of reasons, one of the most important of which is its role in addressing developments in teaching and learning. Generally, educational change is implemented to make education better and improve outcomes. A focus on teaching English represents a strong area of change in education as it is becoming…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Context Effect, Educational Strategies, Educational Objectives
Fahad M. Almohaisen – Online Submission, 2023
Many shortcomings of traditional education focus primarily on basic skills, highlighting the need for a more holistic approach to create successful global citizenship. It emphasizes the significance of fostering virtues like tolerance and dedication, as well as respecting cultural variety and heritage places. The changing educational landscape…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bader Aljadei; Khalifa Alkhalifa; John I. Liontas – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2025
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education and creating new opportunities for language learning and teaching. In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, idiomatic competence represents a persistent instructional challenge because it requires cultural awareness and contextual understanding. Traditional…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration, English (Second Language)
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Sowell, Jimalee; McCaughey, Kevin – English Teaching Forum, 2023
The purpose of this article is to offer suggestions teacher trainers might implement to improve their understanding of the local teachers they work with as well as ways of knowing the self and how the self interfaces with local contexts. The first part of the article focuses on ways a teacher trainer can better understand the needs of the local…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Faculty Development, Self Concept, Teacher Educators
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
This article explores the concept of the post-methods era in language teaching, which advocates for moving beyond rigid, prescriptive methodologies. The author argues that no single method can address the diverse needs of all learners and contexts. Instead, teachers should adopt an eclectic and context-sensitive approach, drawing on a range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lowe, Robert J.; Smith, Richard – ELT Journal, 2020
The concept of English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the subject of much theoretical discussion and debate within ELT. However, little has been written concerning the history of ideas preceding it. This article discusses the concept of 'neutral English' proposed in 1967 by the writer L.?A. Hill. After summarizing Hill's life and work, the article…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Koizumi, Rie – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
In Japanese secondary schools, speaking assessment in English classrooms is designed, conducted, and scored by teachers. Although the assessment is intended to be used for summative and formative purposes, it is not regularly or adequately practiced. This paper reports the problems (i.e., lack of continuous speaking assessment, limited speaking…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Serafini, Ellen J. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Drawing on theoretical insights from a complex dynamic systems framework, this work explores the ways that learner selves, as they relate to learning and using languages, manifest across different contexts and timescales and emerge in interaction with various factors. First, a broad overview of dynamically-oriented L2 motivation research is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Systems Approach, Learning Motivation
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Seedhouse, Paul – Classroom Discourse, 2019
Seedhouse (2004) suggested that L2 classroom interaction can be understood in terms of sub-varieties or L2 classroom contexts. These are the 'interfaces' between pedagogy and interaction in which a particular pedagogical focus combines with a particular organisation of the interaction. However, Conversation Analysis does not see such organisations…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods
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Tyers, Dianne; Sillito, Judy – TESL Canada Journal, 2018
For novice and expert English language teaching professionals alike, it is important to understand the dynamic complexity of the context in which we work to intentionally and strategically forge a relevant and personally meaningful, continuing professional development path. English language teaching has long outgrown a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Storch, Neomy – Language Teaching, 2018
Using key constructs from sociocultural theory and activity theory, this paper outlines three broad areas of future research on written corrective feedback (WCF) that may be of interest to second language (L2) researchers and practitioners. The first area uses the constructs of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and scaffolding to assess the…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sarifa, Najmus – Online Submission, 2018
English became one of the common modes to get back to the audience and common mass. Media jargons and registers are not very easy to handle and vocabulary is a key issue in media studies. This research solely emphasizes on the importance of professional English vocabulary. It also focuses on professional vocabulary of Electronic and Print Media in…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Fischer, Johann – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The underlying methodological approach of the CEFR is defined as being "action-oriented" and task-based (Council of Europe. 2001. "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment." Cambridge University Press: 9), although it explicitly leaves room for a variety of approaches, since the CEFR…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales, Guidelines
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Fatahipour, Majid; Ghaseminajm, Mahnaz – Research-publishing.net, 2014
Despite obvious benefits, some challenges exist in the way of sustainable utilization of mobile phone technology for language learning tasks. This paper shows how these challenges can be better addressed in the light of recent advancements in mobile phone technology, like context aware mobile learning, informed with a sound pedagogical basis for…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction
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