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Guler Ari, Türkan; Kayalar, Fethi – Online Submission, 2018
As the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language becomes widespread, teaching materials and teaching environments are diversifying and developing. While these developments continue in teaching Turkish as a foreign language, various problems are encountered in adapting and using contemporary teaching methods. From a student perspective, learning a…
Descriptors: Turkish, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Coping
van den Broek, Ellen W. R.; Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma W.; Unsworth, Sharon; van Kemenade, Ans M. C.; Meijer, Paulien C. – Language Awareness, 2018
This study presents an in-depth inquiry into teachers' beliefs about a language awareness approach to secondary school foreign language education. The study aims to deepen our insight into (the differences in) teachers' beliefs about language awareness and facilitate the discussion about including language awareness in foreign language curricula.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Öztürk, Basak Karakoç – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The preferred methods for the success of foreign language teaching and the reflection of these methods on the teaching process are very important. Since approaches and methods in language teaching enable the teacher to use different techniques in his/her lectures, they provide a more effective teaching process. The methodology in teaching the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Turkish, Teaching Methods, Grammar
Dos Santos, Luis Miguel – International Education Studies, 2017
The purpose of the research study is to explore how a peer observation training programme could be beneficial to the professional development of English teachers in an East Asian environment. The research objectives were to improve teaching practice, examine how teachers make sense of the peer observation programme after they have taken part in,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Faculty Development, English Teachers
Lander, Roderick – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This article presents partial results of research exploring links between language teacher identity and queer identity in English language teachers working in Colombia. Three gay male teachers participated in a narrative research project framed within a poststructural perspective on identity. I conducted and recorded semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Külekçi, Gülsah – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2018
This paper reports on a study of prospective English language teachers' perceptions concerning teaching behaviors and attitudes that contribute to effective foreign language teaching and learning. It was designed to identify teacher effectiveness factors according to the perceptions of prospective English language teachers at a university in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ayub, Mohd Sofi Mohammad; Talib, Othman; Siew, Nyet Moi – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of users regarding the use of seven multimedia principles in mobile-based Japanese language learning. Students and lecturers expounded their views on these seven multimedia principles: Generative Learning, Spatial Contiguity, Temporal Contiguity, Coherence, Modality, Redundancy and Personalization. A…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Cinkara, Emrah – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: A coursebook is ranked among the fundamentals of language teaching, which directly affects the success of classroom activities. Therefore, investigations into the nature and efficiency of this relationship should yield invaluable insights to improving language teaching. In this regard, this study aims to investigate EFL teachers' views…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English (Second Language), Computer Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction
Teachers' Perceptions of the Standard-Based English Language Curriculum in Malaysian Primary Schools
Sulaiman, Suriati; Sulaiman, Tajularipin; Rahim, Suzieleez Syrene Abdul – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
Standard-based English language curriculum (SBELC) was fairly a new curriculum in Malaysian primary schools. The implementation of SBELC is a phenomenon affecting all teachers and pupils in primary education. Since curriculum implementation occurs mostly in the classroom and teachers are the key players in the implementation process, the initial…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews, Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers
Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad; Mansouri, Seyyed Abbas; Ghominejad, Shiva – ELT Journal, 2017
This study examined how English language learners and teachers perceive and interpret task repetition (TR), and whether teachers' and learners' views about this pedagogic practice correspond. In addition, the study explored learners' cognitive and affective engagement with TR. We asked eight experienced language teachers to use a structured…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Attitudes
Yaghoubinejad, Hadi; Zarrinabadi, Nourollah; Nejadansari, Dariush – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
Research has shown that lack of motivation on either students or teachers' part negatively influences language learning. The latter case is a serious problem in this regard, since an unmotivated teacher will extinguish his learners' enthusiasm and energy for learning. This study employed a mixed-method approach to investigate the demotivating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires
Kussin, Haddi Junaidi; Omar, Ainon; Kepol, Napisah – Dinamika Ilmu, 2018
The purpose of the study was to find out both notions and practice where language learning strategies (LLS) are concern. LLS according to Oxford (1990) could be divided into two main strategies--direct and indirect strategies. Direct strategies are sub-divided into memory, cognitive and compensation strategies and required mental processing of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Foreign Countries
Al-Maamari, Faisal; Al-Aamri, Kamla; Khammash, Samar; Al-Wahaibi, Munira – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
Existing initiatives purporting to promote teacher research are often found to be inadequate to encourage EFL teachers to engage in research due to the fact that they impose a top down, expert model approach to research engagement. This study reports on a pioneering programme at Sultan Qaboos University Language Centre in the Sultanate of Oman…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Sun, Peijian; Yuan, Rui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This study explored the congruence and disparities among three groups of foreign language (Chinese, French, and German) students' and teachers' perceptions of collaborative/cooperative language learning (CLL) strategies in novice-level classroom contexts. A total of 168 participants from a university in the USA took part in this mixed-method…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mixed Methods Research
Zein, Mochamad Subhan – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This study investigates the professional development (PD) needs of primary English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers whose professional field has received significant interest at the global level in the past two decades. The study takes a different stance from previous research that exclusively generated data from teachers because it sought the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes