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Brzoza, Bartosz – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
Teaching English as a foreign language in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) context requires certain particular skills from teachers. The usual group comprises students with different proficiency levels, learning experiences, and diverse course expectations. Thus, ESP teachers need to achieve broad goals because they need to both develop…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Special Purposes, Language Proficiency
Pearson, 2018
Following the integration of an online homework tool--MyEnglishLab (MEL)--into their English courseware products, Pearson sought to explore how one of these products, Speakout, was being implemented with MyEnglishLab and perceptions about the impact it was having on learning. Speakout is a comprehensive eight-level General British English course…
Descriptors: Homework, Courseware, Video Technology, Audio Equipment
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Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina; Loranc-Paszylk, Barbara – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This study examines learners' perceptions of the helpfulness of various multimedia components embedded in digital flashcards for explicit, informal foreign language vocabulary learning. Advanced learners of English (N = 59) studied 48 new words using digital flashcards on smartphones. After ten days, the learners completed perception surveys. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Visual Aids, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jarosz, Karolina – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2016
The author explores the interdisciplinary use of music in teaching English as a foreign language to children in the context of function, genre, character and expression, trying to decipher the role and influence of music on various contexts of language learning, such as memory and concentration span, and takes under consideration a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Król-Gierat, Werona – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2014
The aim of the present paper is to show how captioned tactile jigsaw flashcards (CTJF) can be used in teaching English vocabulary to children with special educational needs. The idea of the following technique, inspired by Montessori's Three Period Lesson (1964, 1967a, 1967b), was presented by this author and colleague Dorota Beltkiewicz in March…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Disabilities
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Baran-Lucarz, Malgorzata – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The paper reports on a study designed to examine the relationship between the thickness of ego boundaries and attainments in FL pronunciation after a clearly structured form-focused practical course of phonetics. The research involved 45 first-year students of the Institute of English Studies in Wroclaw, Poland, who had attended around thirty…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonetics