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Kimura, Daisuke – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This article traces the intellectual roots and developments of the notion of competence in second language (L2) teaching and research. Since L2 teaching and research invariably concern competence of some sort (linguistic, communicative, interactional, or otherwise), there have been countless attempts to define competence from diverse theoretical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Berezenko, Victoriia; Cherkhava, Olesya; Musiienko, Yuliia – Advanced Education, 2022
The article is devoted to the problems of foreign language education in linguistic universities, namely to promoting the students' linguistic competence, which has been the most urgent in mastering the language as a means of communication. The research prompts the standards to progress the grammatical competence. In the current study, we make a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chaves-Yuste, Beatriz; de-la Peña, Cristina – Smart Learning Environments, 2023
ICT tools have gained particular importance in the English as a foreign language classroom in order to promote students' interaction, exchange of opinions, negotiation of meaning, or digital competence. Technological development and the impact of multimedia and virtual spaces on students' lives make educational institutions and teachers explore…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Pirhonen, Hillamaria – Language Learning Journal, 2022
As working life across the world is increasingly multilingual, multicultural and multidisciplinary, higher education language teaching is faced with a challenge of how to prepare students for it. Many universities have recently developed multilingual pedagogies but central to their success is learners' perceptions of these practices. To fill this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nerea Gutiérrez-Fernández; Lourdes Villardón-Gallego; Lirio Flores-Moncada – Qualitative Research in Education, 2025
Perceived competence is considered an essential predictor of learner´s performance in language learning. It is therefore important to identify strategies that favor its development. This study aims to analyze whether the perceived linguistic competence of English as a L2 of pre-service teachers improves after implementing Dialogic Pedagogical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Predictor Variables
Tejada, Venecia Tejada – Online Submission, 2019
This work aims to highlight the importance of literature in the teaching of English at the secondary level, as a pedagogical resource and thus be able to improve the linguistic competence of students in the foreign language classroom. For this, we inquire about the role played by literature within the teaching-learning methods of a second language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Waring, Hansun Zhang – Classroom Discourse, 2018
This contribution outlines the problems and possibilities of three issues with regard to the teaching of L2 interactional competence (IC): (1) specifying IC, (2) standardising IC, and (3) translating conversation analytic (CA) insights into classroom practices. In particular, I argue for a shift of discussion from the conceptually treacherous…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Linguistic Competence
Shadiev, Rustam; Huang, Yueh Min – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Some students are unable to fully comprehend lecture content delivered in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) because of their low linguistic competence. This negatively impacts their academic emotions and learning satisfaction. Speech-enabled language translation (SELT) technology was applied in this study to simultaneously translate lecture…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abu-Zahra, Majdi J.; Shayeb, Ahmad Sh. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This research tries to investigate the importance of mobile translation apps when carrying out translation activities in the classroom. Specifically, this is a semester-long study which attempts to see how beneficial it is to allow translation students enrolled in the translation program at the Department of Languages and Translation at Birzeit…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Class Activities
Wu, Mien-Jen; Ionin, Tania – Second Language Research, 2022
This article investigates whether explicit instruction can affect second language (L2) competence in the domain of English quantifier scope. An intervention study was conducted with L1-Mandarin L2-English learners in order to examine (1) whether these learners can learn inverse scope for the structure on which they are instructed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Generalization, Linguistic Competence
Atar, Cihat; Erdem, Cahit – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
The aim of this paper is to find out the attitudes towards Geordie regional variety of English compared to Received Pronunciation (RP) among Turkish speakers of English. There is a recent trend in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) studies which argue that there are different 'Englishes' and these Englishes have different attitude and prestige…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Standard Spoken Usage
Canagarajah, Suresh – Modern Language Journal, 2018
Applied linguists have been exploring approaches to second language acquisition and competence that move beyond a prioritization of cognition and grammar that was derived from the foundational structuralist legacy in linguistics. Recently, for example, they have collaborated in putting together an integrated alternative model (Douglas Fir Group,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Language Proficiency, Academic Discourse, Applied Linguistics
Rafieyan, Vahid – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
To develop target language pragmatic competence, language learners' attention must be directed toward not only linguistic but also pragmatic aspect of the target language expressions (Schmidt, 2001). Thus, some sorts of pragmatic awareness-raising instruction, using either explicit "Focus on Forms" or implicit "Focus on Form"…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Competence, Undergraduate Students
Li, Jun – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Chinese has intimidated heritage language learners as it is believed to be notoriously difficult (Liu, 2008). Traditional Chinese education, which focuses on linguistic skills and is mainly acquired by recitation and memorization, tends to drive students from maintaining and regaining their inherited language and culture (Curdt-Christiansen,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods, Heritage Education, Learner Engagement
Hertel, Tammy Jandrey; Harrington, Stasie – Hispania, 2015
The 2007 MLA report "Foreign Language and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World," with its call to institutions of higher education to reexamine their curricula and include more in-depth cultural content into all courses, reminded foreign language educators of the important goal of helping students gain…
Descriptors: Spanish, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input, Films