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Wu, Hsiao-ping; Guerra, Myriam Jimena – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Pre-service teacher preparation in the United States is becoming progressively more challenging with respect to the demands on teachers. This study examined the impact of tutoring approach on pre-service teachers? skills to work with English language learners through a qualitative research design. Content analysis was used at the thematic level on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education, Tutoring, English Language Learners
Dizon, Gilbert – CALICO Journal, 2023
While primary studies on technology-mediated informal foreign language (FL) learning are increasingly popular, research synthesis on self-directed FL learning in incidental, out-of-class contexts are scarce. Therefore, this article seeks to address this gap in the literature through a qualitative research synthesis (QRS) on language learning in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods
Al-Tayib Umar, Abdul Majeed – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study tries to identify the effect of assessment for learning on a group of Sudanese pre-medical students' performance in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The study also attempts to identify students' perception and attitudes towards this type of assessment. The sample of the study is composed of 53 subjects from the Pre-medical students…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Hendi, Nazila Seyed; Asmawi, Adelina – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The practices preschool teachers implement in their classrooms are vital in their students' literacy development. Preschool teachers are always expected to implement research-based literacy practices to ensure children are ready to learn when they enter school. This multiple-case study intended to address four nonnative in-service preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), School Districts
Lee, Eun Jeong – Journal of International Students, 2017
The author in this study introduces an integrated corrective feedback (CF) loop to schematize the interplay between CF and independent practice in L2 oral English learning among advanced-level adult ESL students. The CF loop integrates insights from the Interaction, Output, and Noticing Hypotheses to show how CF can help or harm L2 learners'…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yamazaki, Kasumi – ReCALL, 2018
This study investigates an instantiation of a 3D virtual world-based Japanese learning curriculum within the context of a Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) classroom. Through a mixed-method case study approach, participants' natural acquisition of Japanese in a 3D virtual environment was examined. In the present study, four sources of data from…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Simulation, Qualitative Research
McGowan, Shannon L.; Kern, Anne L. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Over the last several years teacher preparation programs have strived to adequately prepare pre-service teachers for more diverse populations in the classroom. However, little research has been done to examine the attitudes of pre-service teachers related to white privilege. This is the qualitative report from a mixed-methods study which examined…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Whites, Advantaged, Power Structure
Chen, Qi; Wright, Clare – Language Teaching Research, 2017
In view of ongoing debates about the future of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in contexts of English as a foreign language (EFL), we present a detailed case study of teacher beliefs and practices regarding TBLT conducted in a secondary school in mainland China with a long history of communicative and task-based teaching approaches. We used a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peercy, Megan Madigan; DeStefano, Megan; Kidwell, Tabitha; Ramirez, Rebekah – Professional Development in Education, 2016
Understanding how online approaches to teacher education can support teacher candidates (TCs) in the central work of teaching, that of engaging in practice with learners, has become increasingly important. This study is aligned with scholarship in core practices, which asserts that opportunities to examine, engage in and reflect upon the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Caicedo Pereira, Martin Javier; Lozano Bermúdez, Jhonny Alexander; Vanegas Medina, Luis Alfonso – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This action research study examines the effect of self-evaluation on grammatical range and grammar accuracy on the English speaking performance of 27 foreign language university and pre-university students enrolled in three different language centers, in three different cities in Colombia. Participants were asked to record themselves answering…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Accuracy, Benchmarking, Grammar
Enkin, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2016
The maze task is a psycholinguistic experimental procedure that measures real-time incremental sentence processing. The task has recently been tested as a language learning tool with promising results. Therefore, the present study examines the merits of a contextualized version of this task: the story maze. The findings are consistent with…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Psycholinguistics, English, Spanish
Stinson, Debbie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study was undertaken to discover how fourth-and fifth-grade teachers implemented the systematic Focused English Language Development (FELD) program with English Language Learners (ELL) students. ELL students are not reaching proficiency at a higher rate because of the gap in teachers' understanding of effective teaching practices and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Grade 4, Grade 5
Stickler, Ursula; Hampel, Regine – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This article explores the theoretical foundations of qualitative research in online language learning. It will look at the distinction between offline and online language learning and discuss whether different ways of knowledge generation are appropriate for those different learning environments. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies will be…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Belli, Serap Atasever – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study was designed to investigate whether contemporary corpus-informed grammar textbooks written for English language learners and teachers presented the progressive use of stative verbs and if yes, which stative verbs were presented to occur with the progressive aspect and for which functions they took this aspect. A corpus of six electronic…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Textbooks, Grammar
Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Hunter, Ann-Marie – Language Teaching Research, 2018
This article reports on a study examining second language (L2) teachers' understanding of speech fluency and their self-reported classroom practices for promoting it. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from 84 L2 teachers in England were analysed to answer the research questions. In addition to the descriptive statistics and lexical…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Classroom Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction