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Abood, Rusul Assim; Alalwany, Assim Abood Zbar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
In this research, the researcher adopts a practical and the theoretical parts. First, is the practical part, it consists of the problem, the aim, the hypothesis, the procedures and the limits of the study. These will be in the first part. In part two which is the theoretical part, the researcher indicates two main types of researches which are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Researchers
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Hunter, Ann-Marie – Language Teaching Research, 2018
This article reports on a study examining second language (L2) teachers' understanding of speech fluency and their self-reported classroom practices for promoting it. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from 84 L2 teachers in England were analysed to answer the research questions. In addition to the descriptive statistics and lexical…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Classroom Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Reyes-Cruz, Maria del Rosario; Murrieta-Loyo, Griselda; Perales-Escudero, Moisés Damián – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This paper examines the research self-efficacy beliefs, research motivation, and perceptions of research importance and research obstacles of 100 professors and lecturers of foreign languages at three Mexican universities. Survey results show that faculty hold moderate to high research self-efficacy beliefs, are highly motivated to conduct…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Oranje, Jo; Smith, Lisa F. – Language Teaching Research, 2018
The New Zealand school curriculum was last revised in 2007, at which time a new emphasis was placed on culture in language teaching. The practice of intercultural language teaching is implicit in the curriculum document and explicit in the curriculum guide, which features a set of principles for intercultural communicative language teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research, Teacher Attitudes
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AlTameemy, Farooq – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2017
Mobile phones have become so ubiquitous that they turned into an important part of our life. According to Parsons, mobile subscriptions exceed 6 billion subscriptions globally. Similarly, Ipsos and Verizon (as cited in Tan & El-Bendary) found out that adopting mobile phones with smart technologies has increased fast which also coincided with a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khodabakhshzadeh, Hossein; Kafi, Zahra; Hosseinnia, Mansooreh – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The present study aimed at constructing a formative assessment inventory for assessing EFL instructors' conception and literacy about the issue under study. Therefore, 302 male and female Iranian EFL teachers took part in the study in a random way to fill out the researcher made questionnaire. The first draft of the scale consisted of two main…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Gürsoy, Esim; Eken, Elif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Recent changes in Turkish educational system have increased the importance of teaching English, following a global trend to introduce foreign languages at earlier stages of the language teaching program. However, putting the new language program successfully into practice can be challenging. In this regard, this study attempts to investigate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Macaro, Ernesto; Akincioglu, Mustafa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In Turkey, as in much of the rest of the non-Anglophone world, universities are offering an increasing number of courses through English Medium Instruction (EMI) rather than through the medium of the first language (L1) of the majority of the population. Previous research has explored teacher and student perceptions and attitudes towards EMI and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Alrawashdeh, Ayah Isam; Al-zayed, Norma Nawaf – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study is aimed at investigating the difficulties that English teachers encountered while teaching listening comprehension and their attitudes towards the subjectin Karak schools. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used two instruments: a teacher's questionnaire and informal interviews. In order to answer the questions of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Lam, Yuen Yi; Chan, Joanne Chung Yan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
This study compared the effects of social persuasion from parents and teachers on students' self-efficacy in reading comprehension in English as a foreign language. Ninety-nine Grade 8 Chinese students in a secondary school in Hong Kong completed a questionnaire with six scenarios which tapped their self-efficacy after receiving positive and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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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
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Alsairi, Meshari A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
Various studies have been carried out in order to find out the suitable age for foreign language acquisition. Every research study has had a different Critical Period (CP) and most of them have not been really close together in terms of years. Critical Period refers to the actual time frame during which foreign language acquisition should take…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Faskhodi, Arefe Amini; Siyyari, Masood – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Among different teacher-related variables burnout can have irrevocable effects on the whole educational system. Due to the importance of considering all positive and negative related variables, and also lack of attention to positive criteria in the area of work-related factors, this study is the first attempt in Iran in the field to include…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kavakli, Nurdan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
The present study aims to explore English as a Foreign Language (hereafter EFL) instructors? recognition of count-mass distinction regarding the concept of individuation and judgment of quantity. Accordingly, fifteen EFL instructors recruited from different public universities in Turkey were asked to write the plural forms of a sum of fifty count…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nouns
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Çakir, Ismail – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study aimed to explore whether foreign language learners would benefit from listening activities in the coursebooks, and to what extent foreign language instructors use the regarding activities. It is also intended in this study to determine the views of the teachers on the effectiveness of improving learners' listening skill through the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Skills, Teaching Methods
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