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Download full textChen, Zhu; Yeung, Alexander S. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
Participating in a research-oriented teacher education program, 20 university graduates from China were invited to teach Chinese as a foreign language in western Sydney schools and conducted teacher research for one and half years. By analysing their research on their own teaching through a qualitative approach, this study attempted to identify…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, College Graduates, Self Efficacy
Direct linkRiamliw, Jakraphan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigated the concepts of literacy held by Thai teachers of university-level Foundation English courses, the connection between concepts of literacy and EFL literacy instruction, teachers' literacy-teaching practices, and the challenges these teachers faced in teaching EFL literacy. The relationship between the concepts of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy, Second Language Instruction
Coleman, Hywel – 1989
This is the second of 12 research reports on the phenomenon of language instruction within a large class environment. The report is written in five sections. The second section (following the introductory first section) discusses the reasons for studying large classes in language instruction, including the facts that teachers find large classes…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Data Collection
Sarangi, Usha – 1989
This report describes methodological problems encountered in categorizing or coding responses to a questionnaire. The survey in question was designed to investigate the problems encountered by language teachers in two African countries in teaching large classes. The key analysis was of the responses to two survey items: "Large classes make it…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classification, Coding, Elementary Secondary Education
McLeod, Nicki – 1989
A survey of 113 college and university second language teachers in Japan, Nigeria, and other African countries gathered information on attitudes toward and concerns about teaching large classes. Responses to one question, "Large classes make it difficult to do what I would like to because...," were categorized into three groups:…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Foreign Countries
Bolton, John K. – 1988
A study of effective English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teaching in large classes is presented. The small body of literature on class size and student achievement is reviewed, the "large section" approach is described. The approach is evaluated with data on student performance in an ESL program offered at Montgomery College, (Maryland).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Class Size, Classroom Techniques
Frutiger, Eliso – 1999
This paper describes how a large school district in suburban Atlanta, Georgia dealt with the challenges presented by the relatively sudden influx of a large number of highly heterogeneous limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. The eight most critical specific problems that underlay the assimilation of the new students included the following: a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness
Blatchford, Charles H., Ed.; Schachter, Jacquelyn, Ed. – 1978
A selection of 29 papers presented at the 1978 TESOL convention is presented. Part one consists of the plenary addresses which concern the following: a survey of the profession, the notional-functional syllabus, the humanization of English as a Second Language, and a review of inconsistencies of national policies and priorities regarding the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
