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Benjamin Luke Moorhouse; Yuwei Wan; Tsz Ying Ho; Angel M Y Lin – ELT Journal, 2024
Purposeful and strategic use of L1 can help with L2 learning. However, in many contexts, monolingual immersion approaches dominate, leading language teachers to refrain from using L1. It can also mean that teachers are not professionally prepared to implement evidence-informed uses of L1. In this article, we share the findings of an intervention…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Intervention
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Thompson, Nicholas Philip; Mutton, Trevor – Language Learning Journal, 2023
A number of factors among schoolchildren in England are currently contributing to poor attitudes towards speaking in the modern foreign languages (MFL) classroom. Although multiple explicit strategy-based instruction (SBI) intervention studies have appeared in recent years, very few studies have focused on its effect on oral skills and, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
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Dixon, Chris; Thomson, Jenny; Fricke, Silke – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Many children learning English as an additional language (EAL) possess lower levels of English vocabulary knowledge relative to their non-EAL English-speaking peers. Longitudinal work suggests that this group discrepancy does not decrease markedly over time as a result of regular classroom teaching. Twelve EAL learners with English vocabulary…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria; Soteriadou, Louiza; Taxitari, Loukia – L2 Journal, 2018
Using a short pedagogical intervention, a pretest-posttest design and baseline data (L1 English), the present study examined the effects of explicit instruction on the use of internal and external modification in requests among Greek Cypriot EFL learners. The findings revealed a complex picture with mixed results. Even though external modification…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Chaparro, Erin A.; Smolkowski, Keith; Gunn, Barbara; Dennis, Caroline; Vadasy, Patricia – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2022
This paper reports the outcomes of an experimental evaluation of "Direct Instruction Spoken English" ("DISE"), an English language curriculum that focuses on developing English speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in English Learners (ELs). Twenty-nine middle schools in three states were randomly assigned to teach…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chaparro, Erin A.; Smolkowski, Keith; Gunn, Barbara; Dennis, Caroline; Vadasy, Patricia – Grantee Submission, 2022
This paper reports the outcomes of an experimental evaluation of "Direct Instruction Spoken English (DISE)," an English language curriculum that focuses on developing English speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in English Learners (ELs). Twenty-nine middle schools in three states were randomly assigned to teach "DISE"…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sanford, Amanda K.; Brown, Julie Esparza; Turner, Maranda – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2012
This paper proposes a model of effective instruction and intervention for English Learners (ELs) within a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework. First, we review literature on effective instruction for ELs and how RTI can address the needs of these students. Then, we describe the PLUSS model, which integrates research on effective instruction…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, English Language Learners, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Nebraska Department of Education, 2007
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide "Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades" addresses the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction for English learners in the elementary grades. The Guide offers five specific recommendations for district administrators…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Literacy