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Arslanbay, Goshnag; Ersanli, Ceylan Yangin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
Data-Driven Learning (DDL) is a method for learning languages that involves analyzing language usage trends and finding patterns in language data, utilizing technology and statistics. One of the key benefits of DDL is that it allows students to focus on the most relevant and useful language data for their needs. Data-driven learning is an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Moon, Soyeon; Oh, Sun-Young – ReCALL, 2018
This paper reports on the cognitive and affective benefits of data-driven learning (DDL), in which Korean EFL learners at the secondary level notice and unlearn their "overgenerated 'be'" by comparing native English-speaker and learner corpora with guided induction. To select the target language item and compile learner-corpus-based…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hadi, Marham Jupri; Arante, Lalu Teguh – Online Submission, 2015
This case study aimed at identifying barriers encountered by an English teaching who taught in a large class and how he dealt with them. The participant of this study was an English teacher in a private owned school and the number of students he taught was more than 30, which is considered a large class for language learning. An in-depth interview…
Descriptors: Barriers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Large Group Instruction
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Murphey, Tim; Falout, Joseph – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
Results from research about language learners can be strengthened by including the learners themselves in the data analysis, and inviting them to check researcher interpretations to confirm the validity of the data, to search for alternative interpretations, and to delve deeper into their beliefs. Using critical participatory looping (CPL), the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Naeini, Ma'ssoumeh Bemani; Pandian, Ambigapathy – TESL Canada Journal, 2010
Gardner's (1983) Multiple Intelligences Theory (MIT) has been found to have profound implications in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) in that it provides a way for teachers to recognize learners' individual cognitive and affective differences by providing favorable motivational conditions for learning. However, little investigation…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Multiple Intelligences, Listening Comprehension, Data Analysis
Wong, Mary Siew-Lian – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2010
This paper presents the findings of a study to explore pre-service teachers' beliefs about learning English and the stability of these beliefs over time. Participants were 25 pre-service teachers (11 males, 14 females) enrolled in a Bachelor of Education (TESL) programme. The Horwitz (1987) Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI), a…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Data Analysis
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Smith, Simon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
This exploratory study describes a framework for data-driven learning (DDL), in General (non-major) English university classes, in which learners "construct" linguistic corpora instead of merely "consulting" them. Prior related work has addressed the needs of language specialists, in particular trainee translators who are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonmajors, Qualitative Research, Glossaries
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Abu-Rabia, Salim; Feuerverger, Grace – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Investigated the relationship between cultural background of Arab students in Canada and Israel and reading comprehension of majority and minority group stories. Findings indicate that, in terms of language education, it is essential to develop pedagogies that respond to the diversity of the social contexts in which the learners are situated. (70…
Descriptors: Arabs, Cultural Background, Data Analysis, English (Second Language)
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers