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Teng, Mark Feng – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
This study aims to explore the effects of incorporating metacognitive prompts into cooperative learning on students' academic writing and metacognitive awareness. In total, 150 tertiary-level learners were randomly and equally divided into three groups: a cooperative learning group with metacognitive instruction (EG), a metacognitive instruction…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Prompting, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language)
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Jiang, Man-Luo; Liou, Hsien-Chin – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2022
While existing literature supports the use of smartphones to teach English vocabulary, limited studies have addressed how learned words can be transferred to college students' writing. This action research study designed pretest, treatment on mobile phones, posttest, and out-of-class pair-work, followed by a delayed posttest after three weeks to…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Gary Cheng; Gloria Shu-Mei Chwo; Wing Shui Ng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Teacher feedback can be useful in helping English as Foreign Language (EFL) students revise their draft writing. Investigating how EFL students respond to various types of teacher feedback in draft revision has been regarded as an important field of study. However, such investigation is time-consuming and labour-intensive, which limits its…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction
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Cheng, Gary – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the impact of using an automated tracking system on the writing performance of English as Foreign Language (EFL) students in a 13-week academic writing course. Sixty-eight first year university students participated in the study. They received the same instruction on academic writing and were allocated to one of two…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Feroce, Nick; Liu, Jenny; Chattergoon, Rajendra – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study examines the relationship between English language proficiency outcomes and the use of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool that is designed to strengthen the academic English and oral proficiency skills of young English Learners (ELs). We compare scores on a standardized English language proficiency assessment for 2,034…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Yeo, Joseph; O'Donoghue, Gemma – Student Success, 2023
To address the demands from their courses, students with insufficient language proficiency who cannot attend the standard subject-specific academic language development program are directed to an alternative discipline-specific program -- the Language Development Tutorial in Block mode, at the University of Technology Sydney. This practice report…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Academic Language, Universities, English for Academic Purposes
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Colls, Guillermo R. – CATESOL Journal, 2019
This article recounts some of the motivations, hurdles, and successes the Cuyamaca ESL Department in San Diego encountered while transforming its curriculum to an accelerated model. The college discovered that the new program, while challenging, increased the success and rate of passing among its language learners and improved the quality of their…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alresheedi, Haifa – Online Submission, 2019
The academic register of English language has been thought of as a challenging cognitive and pedagogical endeavour for non-native university students whether their L2 educational context is domestic or international. To facilitate the acquisition of academic language, several approaches were proposed over years, chief among which are Computer…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction, Telecommunications
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Cunico, Sonia – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Language tandem exchanges offer students valuable opportunities for autonomous learning and authentic intercultural communication encounters. This paper will discuss the key principles of tandem language exchange, and in particular online ones, and then present the EU-funded European University Tandem (EUniTa) project which was developed by…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lotan, Rachel A.; Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC) is a California collaborative teacher professional learning project in which expert teachers organize local professional development to spark iterative changes in practice. Launched in 2014, ILC is a joint effort of the California Teachers Association (CTA), the National Board Resource Center (NBRC), and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Change
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Lotan, Rachel A.; Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC) is an innovative professional learning project in which teacher leaders in California collaborate to lead sustainable professional development to support implementation of new student standards within their districts. Over more than 4 years, the ILC has served over 100,000 teachers. The responses of these…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Change
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis