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Noriko Iwashita; Phung Dao; Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book provides an overview and analysis of the role that classroom interaction plays in instructed second language acquisition. The authors synthesise current state-of-the-art research on how classroom interaction benefits L2 learning through the lens of three theoretical perspectives: cognitive-interactionist (with a focus on how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Socialization, Language Usage
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Chatchawan Chaiyasat; Arthit Intakaew – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
The subject of psychological and sociocultural factors influencing English language learning has attracted a great deal of pedagogy researchers' attention. The purpose of this experimental research was to investigate Thai EFL students' silence in the classroom during the pre-and-post implementation of the communicative language teaching approach…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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El Mouhayar, Rabih – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This research compares the use of triadic dialogue and translanguaging in two multilingual grade seven classrooms where algebra is taught in a foreign language. Ten lessons in one classroom that involve teaching properties and seven lessons in another classroom that involve teaching conventions were video- and audio-recoded and then transcribed.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language
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Elham Monfaredi – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study examined interactional sequences in which students initiated storytelling in classroom interactions. The data consisted of 13 stories initiated by students in intermediate and advanced Persian language classes at two North American Universities. The study drew on conversation analysis in combination with membership categorization…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Story Telling, Interaction Process Analysis, Advanced Courses
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Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Seyyedeh Fahimeh Parsaiyan – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
In the field of TESOL, teacher guides are widely used resources providing instructional support and guidance to English language teachers. Drawing upon Vygotskian sociocultural theory, this research explored how novice language teachers perceive the mediational roles of these artifacts in shaping their teaching practices and the affordances and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Davin, Kristin J.; Kushki, Ali – Language Learning, 2022
Situated within Sociocultural theory (SCT), this article analyzed an existing data set (Toth, 2021a, 2021b, 2021c, available at https://www.iris-database.org) to investigate learners' development through participation in a dialogic approach to grammar instruction called PACE. The target of instruction was the Spanish pronominal clitic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Hughes, Sean – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a complex, interdisciplinary field of study which has its roots in subjects as varied as cognition and psychology to social applications and actions in anthropology and sociology (Han & Nassaji, 2019). Nearly a century ago, Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky attempted to connect the seemingly disparate areas…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yildiz, Mine – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims at drawing a conclusion about the use of the first language (L1) in language classes on which there is still no consensus among researchers. In line with this aim, the qualitative studies involving participants' views or practices obtained through interviews or observations were analyzed and then synthesized. Firstly, two basic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Christina M. Budde; Margaret Sullivan Marcus; Melinda Martin-Beltrán; Rebecca D. Silverman – Grantee Submission, 2022
Few studies investigate how teacher discourse moves relate to subsequent student discourse moves in real-time small-group reading instruction with multilingual learners (MLLs). Grounded in sociocultural theory and classroom discourse research, this study examines how fourth-grade MLLs engage in reasoning discourse during text-based discussions. We…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Small Group Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Skinner, Barbara – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Second language trainee teachers need to use effective classroom language, or 'teacher talk', otherwise opportunities for second language learning can be reduced. However, trainees are often not aware of how their teacher talk influences opportunities for language development in the classroom. This study explores teacher talk data collected from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Doqaruni, Vahid Rahmani – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
In order to gain a deeper insight into second/foreign language (L2) classroom discourse, teacher talk, as one of the most important aspects of this discourse, needs to be studied from different perspectives. So, the purpose of the present study is to address the association between teachers' experience and different types of semantic schemata in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jawhar, Sabria; Alhawsawi, Sajjadllah; Walsh, Steve – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Drawing on the principles underlying conversation analysis (CA), this paper is a single case analysis of interaction in an English as a foreign language (EFL) reading comprehension classroom in Saudi Arabia. It looks at learning from a sociocultural perspective and uses constructs from this theoretical perspective. It focuses on Classroom…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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de la Fuente, Tatiana Estefania Galvan; Flores, Jesus Eduardo Fong – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Second language classroom interaction has unique characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to describe the linguistic resources that teachers draw on to encourage social interaction in the EFL classroom. This examination includes a detailed analysis of the practical activities teachers engage in, focusing on their use of linguistic repertoires…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mexicans, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hoff, Hild Elisabeth – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The work presented here is a qualitative study of socio-cultural approaches to literary texts in a selection of upper secondary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in Norway. The article explores opportunities and challenges related to the fostering of competent "intercultural readers" in foreign language (FL) educational…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
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Rajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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