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East, Martin – Language Teaching, 2021
East (2014) presented a largely qualitative study that uncovered how beginning teachers of languages other than English developed their understandings about task-based language teaching (TBLT) as they took part in a year-long initial teacher education programme in New Zealand. This paper reports a comparative re-production. It complements a recent…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Li, Yingying; Han, Ye – Language Teaching, 2021
In her position article, Lee (2019) compellingly argues for focused written corrective feedback (FWCF) and offers clear guidelines for teachers to shift their feedback approach. As English language teaching practitioners in Chinese universities, we share Lee's view against any unthinking adherence to comprehensive written corrective feedback…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Swan, Michael – Language Teaching, 2018
Like many EFL teachers of my generation, I side-stepped into the profession. While doing post-graduate research at Oxford in the early 1960s, I took a job one summer vacation teaching English in a local language school. Though I had no idea how to do this, I enjoyed the work, and kept on a few hours' teaching in the next academic year. As time…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Basturkmen, Helen – Language Teaching, 2019
Teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) and for specific purposes (ESP) are demanding areas in which to work. Teaching in these areas typically includes a range of tasks, such as investigating learner needs and specialist discourse, developing courses and materials in addition to classroom teaching. Therefore, teachers face a range of tasks…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Singleton, David; Pfenninger, Simone E. – Language Teaching, 2019
This article is concerned with age in second language learning. It steers well clear, however, of the well-worn issue of maturational constraints and the intractable problems of locating their consensual offset point and finding indisputable evidence for or against them. Instead we propose something completely different in our agenda for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Teaching, 2017
In this "First Person Singular" essay, the author describes her education, teaching experience, and interest in understanding the learning of language. Anyone reading this essay will not be surprised to learn that the author's questions about language learning and optimal teaching methods were only met with further questions, and no…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education
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Barkhuizen, Gary – Language Teaching, 2014
Narrative research in language teaching and learning (LTL) is concerned with the stories teachers and learners tell about their lived and imagined experiences. Teachers typically tell about their professional development and their practices, and learners about their experiences of learning and using languages. What stories are, and indeed what…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Epistemology, Personal Narratives
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Littlewood, William; Yu, Baohua – Language Teaching, 2011
For many decades, foreign language teaching has been dominated by the principle that teachers should use only the target language (TL) and avoid using the mother tongue (L1) except as a last resort. However, reports show that teachers make extensive use of the L1. This paper illustrates this discrepancy and considers some main reasons for it. It…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Hall, Graham; Cook, Guy – Language Teaching, 2012
Until recently, the assumption of the language-teaching literature has been that new languages are best taught and learned monolingually, without the use of the students' own language(s). In recent years, however, this monolingual assumption has been increasingly questioned, and a re-evaluation of teaching that relates the language being taught to…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Attitudes, Monolingualism, English (Second Language)