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Direct linkAlejandro Cuza; Laura Solano-Escobar – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examined the production of inalienable possession with body parts in Spanish among 20 school-age children of Mexican-born parents born and raised in the United States. The results were compared to those of 20 first-generation immigrant parents (main input providers), 27 Spanish-dominant children of similar age, and 12 Spanish…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Mexican Americans, Language Dominance
Download full textQamili, Shprese – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
English is a compulsory foreign language in all public and private primary and secondary schools and universities in the Republic of Kosovo. English language is a separate subject in the "Curricular Framework of Pre-University Education in the Republic of Kosovo", where it is ranked after the mother tongue. Thus, English occupies a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Boonsuk, Yusop; Ambele, Eric A. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
English nowadays serves as a global lingua franca (ELF) for diverse ethno-lingua users. This research aims to explore how Southern Thai university student's view ELF, and its integration into English language teaching (ELT) in Thailand where English is used as a foreign language (EFL). 250 students from five southern-Thai universities purposely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Universities
Fenwick, Lisl; Endicott, Michele; Quinn, Marie; Humphrey, Sally – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Teacher education is effective when pre-service teachers are able to transfer knowledge from content areas to practice. This study investigates the extent to which curriculum and assessment designs, along with teaching practices, supported pre-service teachers to transfer knowledge gained about language from a first-year course into a second-year…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Student Evaluation
Al-Dera, Abdullah Saad – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Despite many ELT experts' opinions that while teaching a foreign language one should not use the mother tongue in the classroom, new researches show that sparing use of the mother tongue can be effective for the L2 learners. It is true that the 6- year compulsory English education of the school graduates of Saudi Arabia is not quite up to the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Graduates, English Departments
Stewart, Lea P. – 1979
Forty undergraduate students were subjects in a study to discover students' attitudes toward language and grammar and to determine how the demand for grammatical correctness affected them in preparing and delivering public speeches. The subjects each completed an 11-item interview schedule that elicited demographic information as well as feelings…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Language Research
Hill, L.A. – 1967
The author has compiled a selection of his own articles published in various journals which deal with the problems of teaching English as a foreign or second language. These 15 articles, based on the author's observations from 20 years of English teaching and teacher training in developing countries, have been selected for their practical…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction
Reiter, Sharon Cabral – 1994
This study investigated the attitudes of 15 urban high school students, enrolled in several different levels of Spanish second language instruction, concerning language study and instruction. Results suggest that students see language instruction as primarily grammar-oriented, but would prefer more oral practice and application. They see…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education
Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. – 1990
The purpose of these working papers is to reflect the current activities of members of the Centre for Language in Education at the University of Southampton, England. They include: (1) "Inaugural Lecture: Is Language Education or Is Education Language?" (Christopher Brumfit); (2) "Teachers' Views of Language Knowledge"…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Blacks, Classroom Techniques, English
JALT Journal, 1987
This document consists of the two volume 8 issues of "The JALT Journal," containing the following articles: "The Acquisition of English Interrogatives by a Japanese Speaker" (Yoko Shimada); "Evaluating Teachers' Guides: Do Teachers' Guides Guide Teachers?" (Hywel Coleman); "Teaching and Learning Styles of ESL…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
Burns, Anne, Ed.; Hood, Susan, Ed. – 1997
The collection of papers was written by teacher researchers from an adult migrant English program, and consists of reports and discussions of action research on teaching heterogeneous learner groups. Papers include: "Disparate Groups: Exploring Diversity in Practice through Collaborative Action Research" (Anne Burns, Susan Hood); "A Profile of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Stewart, Elizabeth, Ed.; And Others – Institute of Language in Education Journal, 1994
This journal is intended to assist language educators in Hong Kong schools in developing and maintaining high standards of instruction in both English and Chinese. The 11 issues presented here contain articles, some in English and some in Chinese, on a variety of language education topics, including: language education planning; instructional…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language), Computer Assisted Instruction
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
