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Viktoriia Osidak; Maryana Natsiuk; Karin Vogt – Advanced Education, 2024
The CEFR and the Companion Volume to the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001, 2020), as the main language policy documents in Europe, intend to improve the standard of language teaching, learning and assessment. These documents among other things proclaim students' diverse linguistic repertoire as an asset in the language classroom. In this light, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
Abida Ayesha – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Learner Autonomy (LA) was considered irrelevant to Asian educational contexts, at least initially, due to Asian cultural norms characterised by conformity and respect for authority in general. This study seeks to highlight how Pakistani English language teachers and learners are engaging in certain practices of autonomy without consciously aiming…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Language Teachers
Kadriye Aksoy-Pekacar – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Collaboration in peer interaction has been investigated extensively by analysing language-related episodes (LREs). These have been classified variously depending on the nature of the discourse. Most studies of collaboration in peer interaction have thus tended to adopt a predetermined framework for analysis. Meanwhile, task type as a mediating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Sarah Mason; Alice Chik; Peter Roger – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Language teacher identity (LTI) has been a significant and growing field of research in English language teaching (ELT) circles for some time, and the increasing pressure on English language teachers working in higher education to develop researcher identities is well acknowledged (Yuan, 2017). However, the importance of language teachers'…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Welfare, Metacognition, Teacher Researchers
Laura Baitleuova; Aydan Irgatoglu; Aigerim Aliakbarova – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2025
English as a lingua franca is crucial in the medical field, enabling access to international research and facilitating communication in diverse healthcare settings. This study aimed to characterize the current state of English language teaching at Kazakhstani medical faculties, evaluate students' needs and self-efficacy in general and medical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Student Needs, Self Efficacy
Zhibin Shan; Hao Xu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Whilst the existing literature on multilingual learning in curriculum has properly addressed a variety of instructional factors, few studies have been dedicated to investigating the influence of institutionalisation as a contextual, power-laden factor on multilingual curriculum which in turn influences multilingual learning. To fill this gap, this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kardi Nurhadi; Yazid Basthomi; Urip Sulistiyo; Utami Widiati; Misdi Misdi – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: While many works have reported adopting exploratory practice (EP) principles in language teaching research, only a few studies have explored the enactment of EP in an online extensive reading of students majoring in English education. Given the relative paucity of attention to the use of EP as the practitioner research in English language…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Electronic Learning, Reading, Second Language Instruction
Muthita Chinpakdee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The ability to read English is essential in academic settings, but it can pose challenges for EFL students, potentially impacting their academic performance. This study investigates the expectations that EFL university teachers have for their English major students' reading and the challenges that the students encounter while reading English.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Expectations of Students
Dustin Crowther; Akiko Doyama; Milang Shin; Betsy Gilliland – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The increased global use of English has brought calls for a reconceptualization of English language teaching (ELT). Despite several frameworks for implementing Global Englishes (GE) into ELT, little research considers the effects of curriculum intervention or how such intervention varies across contexts. Addressing this gap, this comparative case…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Jing Wu – JALT CALL Journal, 2024
Since ineffective foreign language (FL) vocabulary teaching has been shown in the higher education of mainland China, this study aims to achieve a satisfactory vocabulary teaching outcome through the construction of a computer-based systematic vocabulary teaching mode. Based on constructivism, the mode was established with three essential teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Shuwen Liu; Rui Yuan; Chuang Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Teaching has always been an emotionally demanding profession, which involves tremendous emotional labour on the part of language teachers. This is particularly true for instructors of English as a foreign language (EFL) suddenly obliged to teach online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the approach of autoethnographic self-study, this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Ethnography
Yue Lang; Yingying Liu – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
Chunking, the process of breaking texts into meaningful units, is a fundamental skill in interpreting. This study investigates the potential benefits of a computer-assisted chunking method, visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF) to improve translators' performance. In the study, three passages with similar readability were randomly presented to…
Descriptors: Translation, Syntax, Layout (Publications), Second Languages
Nils Jaekel; Michael Schurig; Markus Ritter – Language Learning Journal, 2024
With the rapid implementation of early foreign language programmes in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, first for Grade 3 (ages 8-9 years) in 2003 and then from Grade 1 (ages 6-7 years) in 2008, primary school teachers had to adapt to teaching a foreign language in Grade 1 quickly. Teachers had little experience with language teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, FLES
Huimin Yang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2025
In view of the traditional teaching mode, this study focuses on the application of big data in personalized English teaching in colleges and universities. It aims at improving the teaching effect by using big data. By combining personalized teaching and big data theory, this paper analyzes the current situation of college English teaching,…
Descriptors: Data Use, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Sarah Aldossari – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study explores the attitudes of undergraduate Flagship students in the United States towards Arabic-accented speech in English. It examines the Familiarity Principle among these students and analyzes their attitudes based on socio-intellectual status, aesthetic quality, and dynamism of Arabic-accented speech. The study also discusses the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation