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Harwood, Nigel – Modern Language Journal, 2021
The rationale behind this special issue is to underscore the importance of studying instructional materials in context--that is, how materials and textbooks are used by teachers and learners. Research on teaching materials needs to reach beyond traditional 'armchair' analyses and evaluations to appreciate the place of instructional materials in…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Abfalter, Dagmar; Mueller-Seeger, Julia; Raich, Margit – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Translation into another language to enable understanding (of concepts or phenomena) is a basic cultural technique and a prerequisite for international research. Translation decisions inevitably shape the research process and output for qualitative researchers relying on interview or textual data. Decisions need to be made in all stages of the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Translation, Decision Making, Scientific Research
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Canale, Germán – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Language textbooks have been--and still are--the centre of attention of substantial research in the field of applied linguistics, language education and instruction, and language studies, among others. This paper synthesizes results and findings from the current Special Issue 'The language textbook: representation, interaction and learning''. In…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Applied Linguistics
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Akbari, Alireza – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Much progress has been made in the areas of diminishing, avoiding, and resisting plagiarism, due to the recent development of plagiarism tools. Many scholars/authors across the globe have been struggling with plagiarism, giving a number of lectures and writing articles pinpointing strategies that take into account on-line plagiarism services such…
Descriptors: Translation, Plagiarism, Integrity, Prevention
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Cheung, Chun Hei – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
There are numerous scholarly articles that focus on Chinese Students' decisions to go overseas and challenges they face in American High Schools. These research generates a holistic view on the subject., with many of them agreeing each other. Yet, despite many scholarly articles discussing this topic, I find few of these studies originate from…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Foreign Students, High School Students
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Nekrasova-Beker, Tatiana; Becker, Anthony; Sharpe, Angela – TESOL Journal, 2019
With an increasing need for teaching discipline-specific language to second language (L2) learners, language instructors are tasked with a challenging objective to target the vocabulary that is necessary for students to understand and produce discipline-specific discourse. To meet this objective, language corpora and corpus software have been used…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Medgyes, Péter – ELT Journal, 2017
It is a fact that a very low proportion of practising teachers are in the habit of reading ELT-related research papers. The main cause of this neglect is assumed to be that teaching and researching are two distinct forms of activity with no links to connect them. After comparing the concepts of progress and change in research versus teaching, this…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Turmudi, Dedi – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
The presence of the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 has inevitably affected the way how scholars proceed to write. Thus, activities intended to yield a piece of scientific writing facilitated by the obtainability and accessibility of internet browsing is called scholarly publishing. Since English has indisputably become the language of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing for Publication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ananyeva, Maria – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper focuses on "blogfolios", online interactive blog-based portfolios, developed by students for class projects in Electronic Literacy. Blogfolios may contain interactive images, podcasts, and web-log discussions on a variety of researched academic topics. The impact of academic blogfolios on the second language learner's…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Basturkmen, Helen – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009
This study investigates the ways writers comment on the results of their research. Making claims in the form of Commenting on Results is a key move in discussion of results sections. Using data drawn from published journal articles and master dissertations in Language Teaching, the study investigates how published academics and students writing…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, Journal Articles, Authors, Second Language Instruction
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Labassi, Tahar – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2009
The restricted time allocated to courses and the immediate need to read literature in English necessitates the teaching of selective reading in many English as a foreign language contexts. This paper reports on one element of an expeditious (quick, effective, efficient and selective) reading course for learners in an English for Academic Purposes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English for Science and Technology
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Dhieb-Henia, Nebila – English Teaching Forum, 2006
The article focuses on explaining to post-secondary teachers how to teach their students to use metacognitive strategies to skim research articles in specialized fields. The author briefly explains metacognitive strategies in reading tasks and discusses the importance of strategy training and having a purpose in reading. The author then describes…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Simpson, JoEllen M. – Forum, 1998
Reports on the application of a North American system of research writing in a high-intermediate class of English-as-foreign-language learners in Colombia. The system was adapted from a variety of sources representing typical approaches to the introduction of academic research writing at the university level in the United States. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Reports
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1996
This report, the last in a series of four 1996 releases of students' opinions, represents a continued effort by MetLife to provide insight and understanding to current issues of education in American public schools. The survey assessed student opinions and interests in learning about multicultural topics. Public school students from middle and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Cultural Pluralism, Research Reports