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Sophie Begon – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
For newly arrived students who are d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH), language acquisition is particularly complex. The spectrum of initial language situations ranges from no first language to multilingual acquisition contexts. In Germany, there are currently no studies that focus on the education of these learners. This prompted an interview study…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Second Language Learning
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Elena Dupuis – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2024
English as an additional language (EAL) adult literacy learners have special needs and unique characteristics. The various challenges they face include decoding, comprehending, and developing basic skills for reading and writing. At the same time, it is extremely important to understand EAL adult literacy programming, as the right approaches for…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Literacy, Student Needs, Student Characteristics
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This article contends that centring English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curricula on learners' specific needs is not merely advantageous but essential for fostering meaningful language acquisition. By synthesising theoretical frameworks, empirical research, and practical applications, it underscores the necessity of systematic needs analysis (NA)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Curriculum Development, Student Centered Curriculum, Modern Language Curriculum
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Xuexue Yang – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2025
This study explores the responsiveness of an elementary teacher's support for emergent bilingual students by examining the connections between the teacher's assessment expertise, formative assessment practices, and emergent bilinguals' unique language needs in math classes. The study, which investigated the indicators that characterize a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods
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Mingmei Qu – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study investigates the interplay between EFL students' needs, proficiency levels, learning styles and AI-powered adaptive learning platforms in fostering academic engagement. A positive and significant relationship was observed, demonstrating that AI-powered platforms effectively cater to EFL students' individual needs, proficiency levels and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence
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Hamed Shafiei Rezvani Nejad – TESOL Journal, 2024
The increase in the English learner (EL) student population in the United States and these students' placement in U.S. public schools have created high priority demands to address their language and learning needs. General education teachers, however, are often unprepared or underprepared to work with ELs, with limited knowledge and expertise to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Elementary School Teachers, Student Needs
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Andrea Kulmhofer-Bommer; Susanne Seifert; Lisa Paleczek; Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera – Journal of Education, 2024
This paper investigates the implementation of a reading program designed for third grade elementary school classrooms in Austria. Using a mixed-methods approach, lesson types were identified, respective class compositions analyzed, and the effects on students' reading gains examined. The results show that the lesson types seem to reflect learner…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Vocabulary, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Janina Iwaniec; Ana Halbach – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) research has thrived recently. Yet, while more and more is learnt about the impact of CLIL on motivation, proficiency, and content learning, few investigations examine how CLIL influences students of different socio-economic status (SES) and why. The recent large-scale English Impact study conducted…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Profiles, Self Efficacy
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Damar Isti Pratiwi; Sri Wuli Fitriati; Issy Yuliasri; Budi Waluyo – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
While gamified technology integration in vocabulary instruction within a flipped classroom has yielded beneficial teaching outcomes, specific studies have raised concerns about potential adverse effects linked to this approach. As a result, conducting a comparative analysis between gamified technology and conventional paper-based methods within…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Game Based Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Youness Boussaid – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper aims to assess the knowledge of metaphor-based teaching among teachers by investigate the obstacles that hinder them from incorporating metaphor-based teaching into their instructional strategies. This study makes use of a questionnaire to collect data from EFL teachers worldwide. The results show that the difficulties most faced by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
This article explores the concept of the post-methods era in language teaching, which advocates for moving beyond rigid, prescriptive methodologies. The author argues that no single method can address the diverse needs of all learners and contexts. Instead, teachers should adopt an eclectic and context-sensitive approach, drawing on a range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Yizhuo Zhou; Xuande Wu; Kunyang Qu – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly OpenAI's ChatGPT, have transformed English language learning through Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tools. This study examined the adoption of ChatGPT among university-level English learners employing the Hedonic Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM). An online survey was…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nori Duran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that while the number of Multilingual learners (MLs) in Maryland has drastically increased, there are not enough English language development (ELD) teachers certified or prepared to deliver effective instruction. A gap in the research exists because English Language Development (ELD) teachers seldom feel prepared to meet the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Gironzetti, Elisa; Belpoliti, Flavia – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
In response to the growth of Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners in the United States, researchers and instructors in the field of SHL teaching proposed a set of goals and pedagogical approaches to meet these learners' needs. However, because few studies focused on SHL teachers' professional preparation and practice, it is unclear whether…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Igor Ljevaja – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explores the current practices of K-12 foreign language teachers (FLTs) in using the target language (TL) within an urban school district in the Midwest United States. Focusing on how FLTs engage in professional development (PD) to optimize their TL use in the classroom, the study investigates the strategies and knowledge…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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