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Tadesse Hirpa; Birhanu Simegn; Dawit Amogne; Meseret Getnet – Cogent Education, 2024
The study was conducted to assess and evaluate the upper primary English teachers' status of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and classroom practice. The factors that affected a classroom practice were explored in three dimensions: the students' factors, the teachers' factors, and the institutional factors.…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Hasnain, Shazia; Halder, Santoshi – Language Learning Journal, 2023
There has been ample research establishing the effectiveness of the task-based language teaching approach on improving learners' language skills. Some studies have also taken account of teachers' experience and their views of working in task-based classrooms, as experimentation with an approach is different from implementing it in real classroom…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Faqihi, Mohammed Ali H. – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Speaking is considered an essential literacy skill and enjoys a superior status among other language skills. Thus, this current study aims at scrutinizing Saudi EFL trainees' speaking anxiety from their college instructors' perspectives. It adheres to qualitative approach and utilizes face-to-face interviews with four language instructors.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Speech Communication
Paula Pérez-Rubiano; Anna Peñaloza-Rallón; Julieth López-Acevedo; Sonia Camargo-Albarracín – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
A growing interest in teacher identity and decision-making has emerged in language teaching; however, studies where English language teaching (ELT) educators reflect on their own practice are limited. We engaged in a self-study to understand how our experiences influenced our ELT educator identity at a public university in Colombia. A…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Jennifer Talley – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
While pedagogical translanguaging has been shown to have substantive positive impact on student learning outcomes internationally, adult education has not yet widely embraced the concept. This paper introduces the idea of translanguaging, the concept of encouraging students to rely on their existing linguistic knowledge when learning a new…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Simbayi Yafele – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: South African literacy-as-social-practice theoreticians, language-in-education experts, educational linguists, and language policies advocate multilingual pedagogies to acknowledge and cater to diverse multilingual learners' literacy development. Universities purport multilingualism to provide for the multilingual norm, students'…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Bakkar, Beth Bassima – Arab World English Journal, 2019
The English Writing Center (WC) has recently become a writing support service in selective Lebanese universities even though it has been a common practice in Western universities for the last twenty years. The article from a university instructor's experience aims to bring forward the reasons the WC at Lebanese universities is slowly attracting…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
Çelik, Vildan; Tümen Akyildiz, Seçil – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The study aimed to investigate Turkish in-service EFL teachers' attitudes towards creativity, to determine whether gender, age, teaching experience and undergraduate area of study influence their attitudes, and to examine their overall thoughts about creativity. The study used explanatory sequential design which is a mixed-methods research design.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Huang, Rui; Jiang, Lianjiang – Educational Studies, 2021
While there has been a scholarly call to enhance authenticity in assessment in secondary English classrooms, whether and how secondary English teachers perceive authentic assessment (AA) and engage with it remains under-explored. Drawing on data gathered through survey, classroom observations and interviews, this study investigates the perception…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kim, Hoe Kyeung; Feng, Maomao – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
This study investigated mainstream preservice teachers' views on working with ELLs and factors affecting their views. Grounded in sociocultural theory, we develop the following three research questions: What are content teachers' understanding of working with ELLs and ESL teachers? In what ways, do content teachers plan to work with ELLs and ESL…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Barnes, Melissa; Shwayli, Seham; Matthews, Pamalee – TESOL in Context, 2019
There has been increasing attention on mainstream teacher beliefs on English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in their classrooms, particularly in regards to how these beliefs impact on teacher expectations and actions. With many teachers holding deficit beliefs towards EAL students, many have argued that professional development is one…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
Dennis, Barbara – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This paper reports on monocultural education narratives associated with marginalizing newcomer English-as-a-New-Language learners and their families. These narratives emerged through a three-year long critical ethnography in the schools of a Midwest town (Unityville). The collective, social stories emerged as "story seeds" through…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Disadvantaged
Kewara, Punwalai; Prabjandee, Denchai – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018
In Thailand, the new educational policy is mandated to encourage content teachers to integrate English in content classrooms. The policy has created tensions and misconceptions among content teachers, who must change the medium of instruction from Thai to English. This paper presents an attempt to foster teacher knowledge about the Content and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wong, Chiu-Yin; Lubniewski, Kathryn – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2020
Study abroad has become an important component of many teacher education programs. Through the lens of culturally relevant pedagogy, critical thinking, and educational freedom, this qualitative case study focuses on understanding Hong Kong teachers' perceptions about United States culture and education. Data were collected through in-depth,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Teacher Collaboration, Individual Differences
Medina-Jerez, William; Campbell, Todd – Science Teacher, 2015
As the ethnic and racial diversity in U.S. classrooms continues to grow, myths about the education of English Language Learners (ELLs) persist, while many teachers feel ill-prepared to meet these students' academic needs. This article focuses on myths shared by in-service science teachers enrolled in a master's program at the University of Texas…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Science Teachers