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Xu, Wen; Stahl, Garth – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
The teaching and learning of Chinese remains a fragile undertaking across all stages of Australian schooling. This paper reports on a practitioner inquiry into pedagogic practices and student engagement with disadvantaged primary school students in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) classroom in Sydney, Australia. Drawing upon studies of affect…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Ashcraft, Nikki – English Teaching Forum, 2022
Many Language teacher associations (LTAs) are nonprofit organizations and thus rely heavily on volunteers to carry out their mission. A volunteer is a person who donates time and labor in service to others. In the case of LTAs, volunteers play key roles in governing the association, planning and realizing national conferences and local workshops,…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stickler, Ursula; Emke, Martina – CALICO Journal, 2023
This article explores the future of language teaching in the light of recent developments. It is set against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, which accelerated technology-related changes within the field. The article outlines factors that have contributed to a shift in the role of language teachers, followed by a depiction of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Futures (of Society), COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ravindran, Aisha; Ilieva, Roumiana – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
The focus in this article is on international students at Canadian universities seeking graduate-level academic credentials in the teaching of English, and the pedagogies they produce within the relational contexts that they navigate. This article is animated with the material-discursive, human, and non-human assemblages and intensities that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Boudjemaa Dendenne – Migration and Language Education, 2022
We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating ­communication for them--especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer-­ pandemic (i.e., Covid-19). To this end, I discuss the role which "metalanguage" could play in this regard, with reference to Natural Semantic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Coleman, Monique; Kan, Dana; Bruce, Susan; Miller, Kevin; Tiggs, Susie – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
The changing racial and ethnic demographics in the United States school-age population is a defining phenomenon of its educational system. Classrooms across the country are a microcosm of the expanding cultural diversity in society. This growing demographic of students of color extends to students in low-incidence disability groups: deaf or hard…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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England, Neil – English Australia Journal, 2022
Epistemological beliefs -- such as beliefs about the value attached to different forms of language teacher knowledge -- play a key role in knowledge interpretation and reconstruction in language teacher education. This article first presents a case for an explicit focus on epistemological beliefs in an ELT train-the-trainer program for state…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Epistemology
Heugh, Kathleen; Stroud, Christopher; Scarino, Angela – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the 'South', who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality and multilingualisms. Through three vignettes of journeys we illustrate how in changing of place that linguistic diversities…
Descriptors: Risk, Multilingualism, Well Being, Migration
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Magal-Royo, Teresa; García Laborda, Jesús – Online Submission, 2018
Normalization of design rules and guidelines in English language tests to help future instructors and assessment developers in the field of examination of English as a foreign language have not been defined sufficiently until present days. In fact, there are several experiences and investigations related to the user's experiences in the handling…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
Liu, Kristin K.; Wolforth, Sara; Thurlow, Martha L.; Jacques, Catherine; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; August, Diane – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
Determining whether an English learner with significant cognitive disabilities should participate in an alternate English language proficiency (alt-ELP) assessment is a challenge for Individualized Education Program teams. Although some states provide guidelines for making the decision, many do not. The purpose of this resource is to provide…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Intellectual Disability, Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Grahn, Leslie; McAlpine, Dave – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2017
The fourth in the series, this book underscores the importance of the teacher in the learning equation. With an emphasis on the need for instructors to possess a wide variety of strategies, substantial time is devoted to modeling the kind of thinking that skillful instructors employ to decide how learning can best be facilitated. Each chapter…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Wassell, Beth; Koch, Julia – NECTFL Review, 2023
The terms diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice have become ubiquitous in schools, institutions, and professional organizations. Yet the extent to which the ideals behind these words are realities in today's world language classrooms is less clear. Are our world language classrooms equitable and accessible to diverse learners, particularly…
Descriptors: Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice, Equal Education
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Carroll, Brian A. – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2017
A broad view of assessment development and design procedures portrays existing theories and methodologies as not fully representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities students need to perform in the 21st century. Acknowledgement of these inadequacies has led to developments in assessment research attempting to meet contemporary expectations…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation, Vignettes
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Le Ha, Phan; Dat, Bao – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
This essay comprises multiple sets of dialogues between us as colleagues and friends as we revisit the question of the status of English as a global language. Through the metaphor 'multiple classrooms of life', we share reflections and narratives arising out of our experiences with English that are embedded in our professional work, scholarship,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Relationship
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Todirascu, Amalia; Cargill, Marion – Research-publishing.net, 2019
We present SimpleApprenant, a platform aiming to improve French L2 learners' knowledge of Multi Word Expressions (MWEs). SimpleApprenant integrates an MWE database annotated with the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) level and several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools: a spelling checker, a parser, and a set of…
Descriptors: French, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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