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Wyatt, Mark – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Research into "language" teachers' self-efficacy (LTSE) beliefs, a domain-specific branch of research into teachers' self-efficacy (TSE) beliefs in general education, has emerged in the past 16 years. To date, though, this emergent domain-specific research field has not been described in depth, with most accounts of it summarised very…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Literature Reviews
Yildiz, Mine; Yesilyurt, Savas – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper following a mixed-method research design investigates the role of L1 use in L2 teaching from the perspectives of Turkish prospective English teachers. Data were collected from 374 Turkish prospective teachers in ELT department of four state universities in Turkey through a questionnaire. It was aimed to obtain a general view about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
Angus, Katie – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Despite the sizeable portion of foreign language (FL) instruction provided by graduate students now as teaching assistants (TAs) and in the future as faculty, few studies have considered TAs' perspectives on their own professional development. To inform the professional development of FL graduate students as teachers, the present study updated and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Development, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Assistants
Saito, Hidetoshi; Inoi, Shin'ichi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
Despite the rising interest in the practice of formative assessment (FA) in language classrooms, research has rarely examined the factors that contribute to differential use of FA. The present study adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-method design to examine differences in FA use among Japanese junior and senior high school EFL (English as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Napwora, Jesse Wekesa; Gudu, Benter Oseno; Mukwa, Chris Wekesa – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This paper highlights the results of a research conducted in Bungoma County of Kenya between 2008-2009. The objective of the study was to investigate the attitudes of teachers and students towards the impact of availability and use of daily newspapers on students' speaking competence in English language. The study was based on the Communicative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Newspapers
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)
Abdelhafez, Ahmed – Teacher Development, 2014
This study aimed to investigate the areas that constituted the professional practical knowledge of experienced English as a Foreign Language teachers in Egypt and how their knowledge informed their classroom practice. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 236 preparatory and secondary school teachers in 38 schools through…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Yüksel, H. Gülru – South African Journal of Education, 2014
This longitudinal study aimed to trace changes in Turkish pre-service English as a foreign language teachers' self-efficacy over a year, and to detect possible sources of information influencing their efficacy. Utilizing concurrent mixed model design of Creswell (2003) both qualitative and quantitative data was collected. A total of 40 pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Second Language Learning
Hongboontri, Chantarath; Keawkhong, Natheeporn – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This mixed-methods research project documents the school culture of Hope University's Language Institute and reveals the reciprocal relationship between the school culture and the instructional practices of the English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in this particular institute. Altogether, 62 EFL teachers agreed to complete a questionnaire.…
Descriptors: School Culture, Teacher Attitudes, Questionnaires, English (Second Language)
Wang, Li-Yi; Lin, Tzu-Bin – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Teachers' professional identity influences the way they think and teach. For pre-service non-native English speaking teachers (NNESTs), they are at the crucial stage of constructing self-image and self-perception as English language teaching (ELT) professionals, their beliefs about English teaching and learning and their attitudes towards changing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Banegas, Michael R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Immigration into the U.S. will continue to increase in the coming years, thereby increasing the postsecondary enrollment of ESL students. Yet there is still a limited amount of research designed to evaluate which ESL placement programs are most effective. This study was designed to determine if the use of correct testing instruments would ensure…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Placement, Language Tests
Trentman, Emma Gale – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Study abroad is often viewed as an ideal setting to improve target language proficiency due to opportunities for extensive contact with locals in the target language. However, research on study abroad demonstrates that this local contact and target language use can be quite limited, and that there is considerable variation in the linguistic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages
Öz, Hüseyin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
This article reports on the findings of a study conducted to investigate teachers' and students' perceptions of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom and to find out differences of perceptions according to some variables such as gender, level of English proficiency, hours of weekly IWB use, and years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Bulletin Boards
Gudu, Benter Oseno – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
There is a general public concern in Kenya that majority of Form Four school leavers lack communicative and linguistic competence and thus cannot sustain conversation in English language without occasionally code switching to "Sheng" or Kiswahili. This study sought to find out the classroom activities used by teachers to promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Skills, Sampling, English (Second Language)
Jabbarifar, Taghi; Elhambakhsh, ELham – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
An indispensable part of any curriculum design in an educational setting is the analysis of the needs of the learners involved in the context. The needs can be addressed from different perspectives. Among them, the learners' needs in terms of their perceptions toward what constitute learning/teaching and testing processes are of prominent values.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Observation, Instructional Design