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Paul Anthony Marshall – BC TEAL Journal, 2024
A wide range of English for academic purposes (EAP) programs are offered in British Columbia and across Canada. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of an English for general academic purposes (EGAP) approach can provide important insights into how students might most benefit from their EAP program experiences. The insights in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Program Effectiveness, College Students
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Zhang, Xiaodong – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
This qualitative research seeks to understand L2 student writers' perceptions of writing anxiety when drama-based pedagogy and linguistic guidance are provided. This study draws on a qualitative analysis of 22 English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' episodes of dramatic presentations, reflections, interviews, and English essays collected…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Anxiety
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Soler, Inmaculada Gómez; O'Neill, Errol M. – Dimension, 2016
This exploratory study examines the potentially beneficial role of utilizing an interactive video program (BBC's Mi Vida Loca) in aiding second language learners of Spanish to enhance intercultural competence via pragmatic training. The results of a discourse completion task shows that students who watched MVL significantly improved their…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Serrano, Raquel; Llanes, Angels; Tragant, Elsa – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This study examines the second language (L2) written and oral performance of three groups of Spanish-speaking university students after being exposed to English in different contexts. One group of learners was spending some time abroad (Erasmus students in the UK), and two groups were following classroom instruction in two different types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, Study Abroad
Park, Vickie Bin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Similar to its neighboring countries of China, South Korea, and Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (also known as North Korea) has made English a compulsory subject for middle school to university level students, and teacher training programs based on the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach have also been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Jingzi; Mohan, Bernard – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2009
How can foreign language education integrate the learning of language with learning of content, and culture on a systematic basis, when assessment typically focuses on language in isolation from meaning? Examining developmental data gathered over a three-year period from elementary students in a Chinese program in North America, we explore the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Chinese, Second Language Instruction
Abedi, Jamal; Courtney, Mary; Mirocha, James; Leon, Seth; Goldberg, Jennifer – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2005
Recent attention to issues concerning the instruction and assessment of English language learner (ELL) students has placed them among the top national priorities in education. Policy has noticeably shifted from exclusion to inclusion of ELL students in the assessment and accountability system. However, recent research on and practice in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Testing Accommodations