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Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza – Discover Education, 2024
This manuscript, as a conceptual article and communication piece, offers insights into the pedagogy of play as a philosophy of education and a wide-ranging set of methods and techniques. It intends to encourage readers to invest (further) in playful learning in language learning. To this aim, playful learning is first problematized within language…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition
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Amélie Desmeules; Christine Hamel; Anabelle Viau-Guay; Caroline Bouchard – Teacher Development, 2024
Make-believe play (MBP) provides kindergarteners with an authentic form of engagement that is particularly favourable to the development of oral and written language. As part of an action research study, an activity-oriented professional development (PD) program incorporating video was established to provide kindergarten teachers with guidance on…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Faculty Development, Play
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Jim Cummins – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
The evolution of digital technologies has frequently been hailed as a 'game-changer' in education. However, like previous technological innovations, such as television, these recent developments have failed thus far to demonstrate any significant large-scale improvement in the quality of educational provision or in educational outcomes. The papers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Multilingualism, Language Acquisition
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Soyhan Egitim – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
The perception of the teacher as the authority in the classroom is deep-rooted in education yet this notion seems to contradict the fundamental values of democratic education. Schools grant teachers an abundance of authority and decision-making power. The pedagogical implications of how teachers use this power in the classroom are not…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Leadership, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lu Yang; Rui Li – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
While studies of contextualized game-based language learning (CGBLL) have to date gained a growing scholarly interest, there is still a lack of systematic review synthesizing its research trends regarding theoretical foundations, learning contexts, research foci and findings. To address the gap, this study collected data from the Web of Science…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition
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Ciobha A. McKeown; Carley E. Smith; Timothy R. Vollmer; Lindsay A. Lloveras; Kerri P. Peters – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2024
Teaching an infant manual signs is beneficial as it promotes early communication, improves socialization, and can functionally replace behaviors such as crying and whining. Improving early communication also may reduce the probability of an infant engaging in dangerous behavior, like unsafe climbing. The purpose of this study was to extend…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Infants, Help Seeking, Nonverbal Communication
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James P. Lantolf – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article provides a theoretical and empirical argument in support of explicit language instruction. It proposes on theoretical grounds that certain features of a language are sufficiently complex and subtle that learners are unlikely to be able to decipher their full conceptual meaning on the basis of exposure alone. It further proposes that…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns
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Siti Rowiyah; Nabila Humaira; Latifah Nurfitriana – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2025
The use of social media in human life recently is such normal direct interaction including in English language teaching. Politeness strategies are essential in social communication to keep convenient connections. This study aims to examine how politeness strategies are used in increasingly complex situations, combining social media and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Prosocial Behavior, Social Media, Handheld Devices
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Patcharakorn Seemanath; Sasa Watanapokakul – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Active learning is recognized as an instructional approach that engages students in active participation and encourages them to reflect on the learning process. This research study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of implementing active learning in the "English at Work" course and to explore EFL undergraduate students' attitudes…
Descriptors: Active Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Aoife Roche; Clare Carroll; Mary-Pat O'Malley – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
In the Republic of Ireland, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs recommends implementing play-based learning in early education curricula. This research study set out to explore the following research question: What are pre-school teachers' beliefs, understandings and uses of play-based approaches to develop language and literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Carolin Jolitz; Natacha Hélène Gilberte Mally – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
Prior research indicates that first language (L1) orthography can adversely affect second language (L2) phonological acquisition, yet studies on orthographic interference and pedagogical strategies to mitigate these effects remain sparse. Addressing these research gaps, this study investigates the impact of orthographic interference on L2 German…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Captions, Video Technology
DeAnne Rae Paulino Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which the efficacy of the Teaching Early Literacy and Language (TELL) curriculum package for low-income preschoolers was impacted by participant characteristics and variables associated with implementation. In a follow-up to a randomized controlled trial (Gray et al., 2024), data was…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Low Income, Language Acquisition
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Yaling Li – International Education Studies, 2024
This study used a design experiment that instructs children on how to approach each letter to investigate typography design methodologies and manual techniques. Since children are still in the early stages of learning and the content they are exposed to is of great significance, the topic of children's education is always one that the entire…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Language Acquisition, Alphabets, Illustrations
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Jessica A. Osos; Thomas S. Higbee; Nicholas A. Lindgren; Vincent E. Campbell – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2024
Children on the autism spectrum often have deficits in language development. Given the resources required to provide intensive intervention services, either in person or via telehealth, it may be important to maximize instructional time by using procedures that lead to generative language use, such as matrix training. Matrix training involves…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Intervention
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Emily Phillips Galloway; Heather M. Meston; Christina L. Dobbs – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
To inform the design of humanizing pedagogies that draw on the whole of learners' linguistic resources, educators must come to know students as language users, and, more centrally, support students to become aware of the dynamism of their own linguistic repertoires. We highlight one instructional approach--"linguistic cartography"--for…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Mapping, Language Skills
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