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Keng-Chih Hsu; Neil E. Barrett; Gi-Zen Liu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
With the rise of augmented reality (AR) and context-aware ubiquitous learning (CAUL), pedagogical designers in computer assisted language learning are increasingly developing authentic English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learning environments. However, there has been little research regarding the development of evidence-based principles for…
Descriptors: Tourism, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Praweerata Sukrutrit – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This research investigates the enhancement of English public speaking skills among Thai EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students through imitating TED Talks videos. By applying Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the study integrates authentic materials for effective learning. A mixed methods approach,…
Descriptors: Speeches, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yu Hui; Thora Tenbrink – SAGE Open, 2025
This study addresses how Chinese learners of English as a second language (L2) perceive conversations in English materials as compared to speakers of English as a first language (L1). Data were collected through questionnaires completed by 48 participants (28 L2 English learners in China and 20 L1 English speakers in the UK), eliciting evaluations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hoinbala, Festif Rudolf – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
One of the characteristics of a Dynamic Usage-Based (DUB) approach to the second language is that schematic patterns emerge through use and interaction where the intense focus is in input. Video or movie as an example of authentic input often provides a natural context for conversations to emerge among the students and teacher in class since…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yulian, Ryani; Ruhama, Ufi; Utami, Putri Yuli – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
The proliferation of assisted technology has been widely used in language learning, but this should be able to accommodate inclusive language learning which has become an important issue in today's English language teaching and the higher education landscape in Indonesia. This study examined the perception of EFL slow learners in terms of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Gamage, Sandamali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The present study seeks to find the students' performance towards the assigned tasks related to cartoons and their perceptions towards the use of it as an authentic, supplementary teaching tool to facilitate the process of speaking. A sample of thirty-five students was selected to involve in different tasks related to selected number of cartoons.…
Descriptors: Cartoons, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction