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María Orcasitas-Vicandi; Andrea Perales-Fernández-de-Gamboa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
In recent years multilingual approaches to teaching have been widely discussed and translanguaging has been proposed as a pedagogy that offers very positive results in many contexts. Overall, the need to reverse monolingual assumptions among teachers and to adapt pedagogical translanguaging to each context has been highlighted. For that purpose,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Language Minorities, Code Switching (Language)
Cheng, Yonghong; Wang, Yan; Chen, Wei – Applied Language Learning, 2022
Language instruction at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC), as it does at colleges and universities, focuses on developing linguistic competence. There is no textbook or teaching materials that explicitly and systematically teach students the pragmatic knowledge of the target language. Such knowledge is either…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Li, Zhan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This case study examines an under-explored domain of teaching, namely, teachers' use of curriculum materials to enact instructions. It focuses on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers' enactment of instructions through utilising prescribed textbooks in Higher Education (HE) in China. Drawing on interviews and lesson observations from two…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
Janine J. Darragh; Gina Mikel Petrie; Stan Pichinevskiy – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Educative Curriculum Materials (ECMs) are teaching materials that have the dual function of providing learning activities to students and providing professional development to the teachers that use them. Answering a call for professional development opportunities, and with input from English teachers in rural Nicaraguan schools, the designers…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Mathew, Leya – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This article examines how a purportedly local, postcolonial reform effort to resist center-based methods is resisted by the students and teachers it seeks to serve. In this context, rather than take center and periphery for granted, the author attempts a processual geography of method. Drawing on data from a 19-month ethnography in the Indian…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Linh Phung, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor; Vu Phi Ho Pham, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, initiated, and implemented in Vietnam and Cambodia. The region is responding to a large number of significant challenges, including…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Garzón, Edgar Augusto Aguirre – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This paper describes a case study research project carried out in a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, with four unlicensed teachers of English as a foreign language. Although the institutional guidelines in the school suggest that teachers should collectively propose changes to shape pedagogical realities, there is evidence of little…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies
Lorenzen, Charla – Learning Languages, 2018
This action research study examined the experiences of a heritage speaker of Spanish who was training to become a Spanish teacher within a Spanish Education program that was in the process of transforming the traditional, front-loaded and theoretical methods course into a practice-based approach to teacher education. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Banegas, Darío Luis – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This article describes part of a larger action research study carried out in 2018 with secondary school learners and teachers of English in southern Argentina. The study was guided by two aims: (1) improving English language learner motivation, and (2) transforming the English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum through teacher and learner…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chan, Jim Yee Him – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This study assesses the extent to which situational authenticity has been implemented in three commercial ELT textbook series in Hong Kong, which are designed to reflect the local sociolinguistic setting. The analysis involved the quantification and categorization of both written and spoken texts in the textbooks. The results of this analysis were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Samah, Asiah Abu – 1988
The new secondary education curriculum in Malaysia, which uses an approach integrating skill development, content knowledge, and values, is examined from the perspective of language teaching and learning. Specific attention is given to the ways that curriculum and materials design can contribute to overall student development, the primary…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Masciantonio, Rudolph – The Classical World, 1968
This summary of Latin's needs in urban public education includes discussions of (1) the need for teachers qualified to handle the obstacles present in this environment, (2) the development of special instructional materials for average and below-average students, (3) improved publicity and public relations for the program in the community, and (4)…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Community Relations, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change