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Melina Porto; Michalinos Zembylas – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The purpose of this article is to examine the ethical tensions and considerations that arise in the world language classroom from using pedagogies of discomfort. Although pedagogies of discomfort have mostly been seen through a positive lens in the literature for engaging students with difficult issues in the classroom, there are ethical concerns,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethics
Corine Philippart – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2025
Learning, and especially the broader learning process, requires an intellectual and emotional effort. Such emotional effort can come with greater risks for some learner profiles than others, and this is particularly true for refugee/ forcibly displaced learners. To provide adequate support for these students from conflict-affected contexts,…
Descriptors: Conflict, Resilience (Psychology), Refugees, Second Language Instruction
Ebrahim Mohammed Bamanger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined high-leverage teaching practices (HLTPs) in foreign language instruction. Specifically, this study sought to identify teaching practices that Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) learners and instructors think could enhance learners' oral communicative competence. It attempted to answer the following questions: (1) What are the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Arabic, Oral Language
Masaya Yamaguchi; Soichiro Matsuda – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
In a replication of Daly and K. Dounavi (2020), the researchers evaluated the effect of foreign tact and bidirectional intraverbal teaching on the emergence of untaught relations. Three university students learned three stimulus sets through three types of teaching: native-foreign intraverbal teaching (vocalizing Spanish words that refer to a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, College Students
Gang Yang; Qiongqiong Kuang; Renfeng Jiang; Renfeng Jiang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Recognized as an important teaching approach, blended teaching has been widely applied in English language instruction within university settings. Nonetheless, discrepancies exist in the reported results regarding the efficacy of blended teaching approach on university students' English learning outcomes. This study employs a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, College Students, Second Language Instruction
Andrew Garth – English Teaching, 2024
This study analyzed inductive and deductive instructional approaches for teaching grammar within a Presentation-Practice-Production grammar lesson. The participants of this study included 119 Korean university students enrolled in an English as a foreign language class, with approximately half receiving deductive instruction and the other half…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Afsaneh Ghanizadeh; Mahtab Tabeie; Zahra Pourtousi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Storytelling is a method for training essential life issues as storytelling can assist learners to consider the story not just as a source of entertainment but as a practical lesson. In fact, teachers can encourage even the most unwilling students by engaging the students in storytelling while maintaining students' attention through…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Attention, Psychological Needs, Story Telling
Abdurrahman Hi. Usman; Adi F. Mahmud – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
The primary aim of this study was to address the challenges of low speaking proficiency and motivation among second-year students in an Islamic education university department. This was achieved by implementing an integrated teaching strategy within a Classroom Action Research (CAR) framework to enhance students' speaking skills and active…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Speech Skills, Low Achievement, Teaching Methods
Daysi Lorena Narváez-Cantos; Maria de Lourdes Carreño-Jácome – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Investigating perceptions of an effective university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher has been an ongoing topic in the last few years. However, those studies have focused only on teachers' perceptions, not students' perceptions, from the Latin American context and mainly based on Likert scales questionnaires. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction
Lieselotte Sippel – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This classroom study investigated the effectiveness of form-focused instruction and peer feedback training to improve grammatical accuracy and thereby maximize learning opportunities during peer interaction. Eighty-seven third-semester learners of German were assigned to a PI group (peer interaction only), an FFI group (peer interaction and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Grammar
Miroslaw Pawlak – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite undeniable advances in research on language learning strategies in the last several decades, empirical investigations of actions and thoughts that learners engage in to better understand and use grammar structures in different contexts, or grammar learning strategies (GLS), remain scarce. Moreover, there is a paucity of studies examining…
Descriptors: Grammar, Learning Strategies, Intervention, Definitions
Sayed M. Ismail; Chuanli Wang; Radman Jamalyar – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Task-based instruction (TBI) is a pedagogical approach that centers on engaging learners in meaningful and communicative tasks to promote language acquisition, active participation, and practical language use. The primary objective of this investigation was to assess the influence of TBI on reading comprehension, motivation for L2 reading,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Anxiety
Strategies-Based Chinese as a Second Language Reading Instruction: Effects and Learners' Perceptions
Jia Lin; Gengsong Gao; Ting Huang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Strategic reading is an important consideration in the L2 reading classroom. This study investigated the effects of a Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) strategies-based reading instruction program, in which participants were explicitly taught ten top-down reading strategies. Thirty-four students enrolled in an advanced-level Chinese class…
Descriptors: College Students, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction
Junming Chen; Martin Howard – Language Learning, 2024
Exploring the underinvestigated area of instruction during study abroad, this article offers a quantitative study of linguistic development among second language university learners of Chinese during a semester in China. A comparison is made between learners following task-based language teaching and a comparison group following a traditional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Carolee Rogers; Benjamin L. McMurry; Dan P. Dewey – ELT Journal, 2024
This article investigates the effectiveness of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in an intensive English program for non-matriculated university students. Interventions based on the PERMA model were implemented through weekly 65-minute lessons given during the first class of each week. These were followed by short daily activities during…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning