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Koç, Tuncay; Dilek Bacanak, Kadriye; Ergül, Hatice – Language Learning Journal, 2023
In addressing vocabulary explanations in language classroom settings, a growing number of studies have examined the different ways teachers respond to the vocabulary explanation requests made by students in second language (L2) classrooms. Relatively lacking is an investigation into the nature of vocabulary explanation requests made by students in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Adult Students
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Can Daskin, Nilüfer; Hatipoglu, Çiler – Language Testing, 2019
In this study we are concerned with the informal dimension of formative assessment (FA) in an L2 classroom. We examine those instances that are embedded into everyday learning activities and that emerge in and through classroom interaction contingently, continuously and flexibly. Drawing on the methodological underpinnings of Conversation Analysis…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Classroom Communication, Second Language Learning, Evaluation Methods
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Arsyad Arrafii, Mohammad – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2020
Teachers' grading in secondary education has been recognised as a 'hodgepodge' practice that incorporates both cognitive and non-cognitive factors (e.g. effort, participation, and attendance) to determine students' final grades. Consequently, students' grades are perceived to be an inaccurate representation of their academic knowledge. Hodgepodge…
Descriptors: Grading, Grades (Scholastic), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Patiño-Santos, Adriana; Pérez-Milans, Miguel; Relaño-Pastor, Ana María – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2015
This article explores the ways in which what counts as "legitimate" knowledge is produced and negotiated in two multilingual classrooms of two different programmes designed to "attend to diversity" at secondary schools in the Madrid region. Following a sociolinguistic approach, the article focuses on the ways in which local…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Secondary School Students, Sociolinguistics, Self Concept
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Sert, Olcay; Walsh, Steve – Language and Education, 2013
This paper primarily investigates the interactional unfolding and management of "claims of insufficient knowledge" (Beach and Metzger 1997) in two English language classrooms from a multi-modal, conversation-analytic perspective. The analyses draw on a close, micro-analytic account of sequential organisation of talk as well as on various…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Solomon, Jeff; Rhodes, Nancy – TESOL Journal, 1996
Reports the results of a survey that asked English-as-a-Second-Language educators to define and describe academic language, give examples of students who use it proficiently in speaking and writing, discuss problems students have with it, and provide examples of how best to assess it. (CK)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language)
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Lacorte, Manel – Language Teaching Research, 2005
Recent research on second language acquisition (SLA) has strengthened foreign (FL) and second language (L2) teaching methodologies supporting the development of communicative tasks, interactive activities in the classroom, and learner-centred instruction. However, these and any other trends in FL and L2 teaching and learning could be more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Educators, Knowledge Level, Teaching Methods
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers