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Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura; Coulter-Kern, Mackenzie; Kuntz, Tess – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
While many elementary-level children in the United States still do not have access to a second/additional language (L2), an increasing number are educated via Foreign Language Exposure (FLEX) tracks. Our two-semester study examines elementary-level L2 learners' engagement, emerging L2 Spanish vocabulary use, and awareness of the arbitrary nature…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
Aydinbek, Canan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of reading strategies instruction on the reading achievement of learners of the French and to identify the views of the participants on the effect of said strategies. Research Methods: To achieve that objective, a one-group pretest-posttest model was used. The participants were 32 Turkish…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Achievement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Romeo, Kenneth; Bernhardt, Elizabeth B.; Miano, Alice; Leffell, Cici Malik – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Despite the foreign language community's historical interest in employing technology to support language learning, few research studies have linked its use to instructional outcomes and most have failed to address whether technology enhancements lead to increased proficiency gains. This article examines the relationship between technology use and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Hadley, Gregory; Charles, Maggie – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This paper investigates using data-driven learning (DDL) as a means of stimulating greater lexicogrammatical knowledge and reading speed among lower proficiency learners in an extensive reading program. For 16 weekly 90-minute sessions, an experimental group (12 students) used DDL materials created from a corpus developed from the Oxford Bookworms…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Vocabulary Skills
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a paradigm to teach native Cantonese-speaking university students the hierarchical structure of expository prose to improve paragraph coherence. Most of the diagnostic argumentative essays the participants in this study wrote in the course were incoherent, failing to meet readers' expectation of…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Invention, Paragraph Composition, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
Shiri, Saeed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study was conducted in order to inspect the impact of podcasts as learning and teaching tools on Iranian EFL learners' motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. It also investigated the learners' perception towards podcasts. 34 intermediate learners who were homogeneous in terms of listening ability were…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Motivation Techniques, English (Second Language), Multimedia Materials
Jensen, Roger D., Jr. – Online Submission, 2015
Critical thinking skills are an important topic of the United States' education system. This study examines the literature on critical thinking skills and defines them. The study also explores one specific teaching and assessment strategy known as the Socratic Method. The five-week research study used the Socratic Method for developing critical…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Lin, Huifen – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the past few decades, instructional materials enriched with multimedia elements have enjoyed increasing popularity. Multimedia-based instruction incorporating stimulating visuals, authentic audios, and interactive animated graphs of different kinds all provide additional and valuable opportunities for students to learn beyond what conventional…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension
Tian, Lili; Macaro, Ernesto – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This study investigated the effect of teacher codeswitching on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition during listening comprehension activities in a lexical Focus-on-Form context. To date there has been research on teacher beliefs about first language (L1) use, its functions and its distribution in the interaction, but little on its effect on…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Puhl, Carol A. – 1989
A South African project investigated effective methods of English language instruction for educationally disadvantaged black gold mine workers. Four instructors taught eight 3-week intensive classes, four by traditional language teaching methods and four by methods used at the Institute for Language Teaching of the University of Stellenbosch…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
Bien-Aime, Joseph C. – 1993
This study investigated the effectiveness of a variety of teaching techniques, including both standard English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) methods and the teacher's own strategies, in improving the English language proficiency of 15 Haitian and 5 Hispanic third-graders. The students were administered oral and written pretests and found to be…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Students
Wirt, John; Choy, Susan; Gerald, Debra; Provasnik, Stephen; Rooney, Patrick; Watanabe, Satoshi; Tobin, Richard; Glander, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2001
To ensure reliable, accurate, and timely data, which are necessary to monitor the progress of education in the United States, Congress has mandated that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produce an annual report, "The Condition of Education." This year's report presents 59 indicators of important developments and trends…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, School Statistics, Educational Trends, Educational Indicators