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Azadeh Emadi; Shaghayegh Hosseini – TESL-EJ, 2024
Given the changing nature of the meaning of literacy, this study seeks to adopt a pluralistic view of literacies and provide a holistic picture of how coursebooks help learners improve their technological-related literacies to participate fully in the present and future world of multiple and multimodal literacies. Accordingly, the elements of…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, English (Second Language), Textbook Preparation, Curriculum Design
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Mintra Puripunyavanich – TESL-EJ, 2025
This study explores how Thai university teachers integrate extensive reading (ER) into foundation English courses for non-English majors. 63 participants completed an online questionnaire and eight respondents joined semi-structured Zoom interviews. Questionnaire respondents were categorized into Groups A (less experienced with ER) and B (more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Grant Eckstein; Ying Suet Michelle Lung; Natasha Gillette – TESL-EJ, 2025
Students are often encouraged to proofread their writing by reading it aloud. Presumably, this will allow writers to correct local errors. Yet even though this strategy may be effective for native speakers, there is little empirical evidence of its benefit among second language writers. Therefore, we wondered how many errors second language…
Descriptors: Proofreading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Behrooz Kalantari; Mohammad Aliakbari; Reza Khany – TESL-EJ, 2023
The present study adopted a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to explore the status of nurturing creativity in Iranian EFL classrooms. A standard questionnaire was given to 214 public high school EFL teachers to rate the frequency of using the creativity-nurturing strategies in their classrooms. While the curriculum policies stipulate…
Descriptors: Creativity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khany, Reza; Kamalvand, Ayad – TESL-EJ, 2022
The importance of materials in learning and teaching has prompted a substantial number of studies on English language learning/teaching materials (ELLTM). To date, the field seems largely unstudied when it comes to identifying the focus, themes, and challenges. Hence the present study endeavored to systematically review, analyze, and synthesize…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
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Listiani Listiani; Marianne Nikolov; Ágnes Hódi – TESL-EJ, 2024
Over the past two decades, multiple empirical studies have examined how teacher audio feedback works in EFL/ESL writing courses. This review explores instructor audio feedback studies in higher education writing contexts. Seventy empirical studies were identified in literature searches published between 2000 and 2022 in several academic databases.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Leal, Priscila – TESL-EJ, 2023
This article presents a theoretically grounded methodological approach to investigate the interplay between language teacher cognition and critical language teacher identity development. To answer the question as to what social, cultural, historical, and political aspects lead teachers to position themselves as language teachers for social…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Correlation
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Krista Hulderman; Justin J. Wageman; Stacy Duffield; James Nyachwaya – TESL-EJ, 2025
English language students often struggle to acquire and retain academic vocabulary due to limited exposure and insufficient opportunities for meaningful engagement with new words. Explicit, structured vocabulary instruction is essential to acquire word ownership, defined as understanding a word's meaning and using it in various contexts. This…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Ira Slaboda – TESL-EJ, 2024
Autonomous learning in EFL refers to learner involvement, reflection and target language use. Teachers play a vital role of mediators and facilitators in self-regulated method. Thus, their perception of self-regulated practices dictates their implementation of this approach. While research has predominantly focused on inadequate management of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Self Management, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Indah Puspawati; Maharani Khansa; Utami Widiati – TESL-EJ, 2024
Teachers' language assessment literacy (LAL) refers to teachers' ability to perform assessment-related tasks. Despite the significant role of language assessment literacy in English language teaching and learning, many teachers reported to have an inadequate ability to perform assessment-related tasks because of the lack of assessment training…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Chang, Anna C. -S. – TESL-EJ, 2023
Research has shown that second language (L2) learners generally lack multiword expression knowledge, and L2 researchers and practitioners have tried various techniques to assist L2 learners to acquire it more efficiently. This study adopted an under-researched technique-- repeated oral reading--to enhance the retention of high-frequency multiword…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Reading
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Anthony Wotring – TESL-EJ, 2025
The adoption of innovative pedagogy without clear guidance in adapting teaching approaches to English language teaching contexts has led to disconnects in meeting students' and teachers' classroom talk needs. One such innovation, the dialogic teaching approach, centres a principled conception of classroom talk to enhance pedagogical practice.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kountiala J. Somé – TESL-EJ, 2025
The study examined challenges EFL teachers in Burkina Faso face in teaching listening and speaking to grade 10 students in centralized education systems and how they address these issues. The primary obstacle is the focus on national exam formats, which prioritize grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, sidelining communicative language…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Ilka Kostka; Rachel Toncelli – TESL-EJ, 2023
By utilizing a massive corpus of textual data, large language models can generate unique human-like outputs to questions and interact with users in a natural conversational way. ChatGPT is one such platform, and since it emerged into the public consciousness in November 2022, it has generated both excitement and concern among educators. A growing…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yousefi, Marziyeh; Nassaji, Hossein – TESL-EJ, 2021
This paper reviews the literature on the role of corrective feedback and instruction in L2 pragmatics. Pragmatics "focuses on how people perform, interpret, and respond to language functions in a social context" (Taguchi, 2011, p.289), and therefore its development is key to the development of language competence. Pragmatics entails both…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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