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Ahmed Kamal Junina; Pat Strauss; Jay K. Wood; Lynn Grant – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
The challenges facing non-native English-speaking students (NNESSs) in adapting to the conventions of academic writing at the tertiary level in English-medium institutions have been widely canvassed in scholarly research. Nonetheless, there does not appear to be a great deal of research that investigates the experiences of Arabic-speaking students…
Descriptors: Arabic, Student Experience, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Salwa Mohamed – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001). Offers a comprehensive framework for learning, teaching, and assessment, promoting transparency and coherence in language education. Central to the CEFR is its action-oriented approach, which views language as situated social action and positions learners as…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Guangxiang Liu; Yue Zhang; Rui Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Focusing on how a world of possibilities is opened up by language learners themselves, imagination has been regarded as an elusive but indispensable element in second language (L2) education. Drawing on notions of international posture (Yashima 2002), Ideal L2 Self (Dörnyei 2009), and imagined communities (Norton 2001), we theorised imagination…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Estefania Alvear; Maritza Rosas-Maldonado; Annjeanette Martin – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Research on pre-service and novice teachers shows that their school learning experiences play a role in developing their pedagogical beliefs. However, whether these experiences continue to influence teachers' beliefs as they become more experienced requires further investigation. This study aimed to examine how the school language learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Chatchawan Chaiyasat; Arthit Intakaew – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
The subject of psychological and sociocultural factors influencing English language learning has attracted a great deal of pedagogy researchers' attention. The purpose of this experimental research was to investigate Thai EFL students' silence in the classroom during the pre-and-post implementation of the communicative language teaching approach…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Nazari, Mostafa; Karimpour, Sedigheh; Xodabande, Ismail – TESL-EJ, 2023
While research on second language teacher cognition (SLTC) has significantly developed over the past three decades, this line of inquiry has not paid adequate attention to material development/evaluation as compared to the key role that materials play in teachers' daily practice. In response to this gap, in this study we adopted the theoretical…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Priyanka Bose; Xuesong Gao; Sue Starfield; Nirukshi Perera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Indo European Languages, Linguistic Theory
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Kissling, Elizabeth M.; Muthusamy, Tejas – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study investigated to what extent and how novice second-language (L2) Spanish learners use the cognitive linguistics-informed concept of boundedness to support their development of aspect--namely, the Spanish preterite and imperfect. The concept was presented within the framework of concept-based instruction (CBI) as part of a regular,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Seyyedeh Fahimeh Parsaiyan – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
In the field of TESOL, teacher guides are widely used resources providing instructional support and guidance to English language teachers. Drawing upon Vygotskian sociocultural theory, this research explored how novice language teachers perceive the mediational roles of these artifacts in shaping their teaching practices and the affordances and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Da Yan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
The aim of the study was to examine the effects of rubric co-creation on peer feedback. From a social constructivist perspective, rubric co-creation might have the ability to promote the quality of feedback messages, interactivities within feedback processes, and uptake of feedback information in a peer-based collaborative setting of higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Peer Evaluation, Peer Relationship
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Nazari, Mostafa; Tilaki, Melika Jargani – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
The study of language teacher and learner identity has turned into a vibrant line of research in recent years. Little research, however, has specifically addressed teachers' understanding of learner identity and the contributions this awareness offers to various aspects of their work. This study explored fifty Iranian EFL teachers' understanding…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Berg, D. Ryan; Lu, Yichen; Huang, Shenghui Cindy – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2021
Language learning strategies are an important variable in language learning, as they both facilitate learning and make learning more effective. Previous research has categorized and placed language learning strategies into taxonomies. However, despite calls for more socioculturally-appropriate strategy questionnaires, there is a paucity of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Strategies
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Marta E. Strukowska – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This article explains how shared leadership can be recognised and established in project-based learning as a situated English practice. It specifically explores the task characteristics of Cox et al.'s (2003) leadership model, which illustrates the functional relations between the procedural features of project work and its outcomes. The result of…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Qin, Tianyu; van Compernolle, Rémi A. – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
The focus of this article is on the design and administration of an online computerized dynamic assessment of an important area of pragmatics: implicature comprehension (i.e., indirect meaning). The assessment centered on indirect acceptances, refusals, and opinions. Drawing on Vygotskian psychology, this assessment had a dual aim: (a) to evaluate…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Ahmed, Samara Mohammed; Rushdi, Ali Arshad; Ismael, Waqqas Saddi – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Performative refers to a type of action that is performed under the sentence having been uttered. Knowing a language entails understanding how to construct correct sentences and how to use those sentences to construct appropriate utterances. As a result, they frequently employ a variety of linguistic forms. An utterance is, however, only a…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Verbs, Speech Communication
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