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Lim, Fei Victor; Towndrow, Phillip A.; Min Tan, Jia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The 'multimodal turn' has led many education systems around the world to incorporate aspects of multimodality into their language curriculum as a response to the contemporary communication environment and new literacy practices of students. In this article, we present and examine findings from a study of the enactment of multimodal pedagogies by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Modalities, Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers
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Yanhong Zuo; Fangzhi He – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Digital multimodal composing (DMC) has been receiving increasing attention in the research on English as an additional language (EAL) instruction in higher education. While this approach responds to students' changing writing practices in the digital world, it can create tension with mandated curricula and high-stakes testing regimes that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Higher Education
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Pratabjai Tatsanajamsuk – rEFLections, 2024
This comparative case study explores the roles of reading-to-write and writing-only approaches on students' L2 writing skills. Six third-year English major students from a Thai university, with diverse proficiency levels, participated in the study. Data from students' writing samples, semi-structured interviews, and observations were analyzed…
Descriptors: Role Theory, Undergraduate Students, Reading Writing Relationship, Second Language Learning
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Celina Salvador-Garcia; Oscar Chiva-Bartoll – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language in CLIL is dependent on the subject that embraces it, as it is the case of Physical Education. The present descriptive exploratory case study examines how content and language are integrated into Physical Education lessons with CLIL in secondary education. It applies the Cognitive Discourse Function construct as a heuristic to analyse 19…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Language Usage, Secondary Education, Cognitive Processes
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Amar Bahadur Sherma – Journal of English Teaching, 2023
This study assesses the effectiveness of the Process of Perfection (POP) teaching method in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms, particularly among students with varying English proficiency levels and limited access to ICT tools and teaching resources. Six English language teachers and 40 students from a Nepalese private school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Christopher A. Smith – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The present study identifies and maps the reflexive praxis of two experienced English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors as they reconstruct and negotiate textbook material in situ. An abundance of critical studies underscoring social injustices in the contents of globally published EFL textbooks do not sufficiently address the negotiation of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Textbook Content, Learning Modalities
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Huang, Shin-ying – TESOL Journal, 2019
There has been increasing effort in English as a second and foreign language education to incorporate a critical perspective, either highlighting the politics of English in terms of native-speakerism, standards, varieties, and accents or aiming to develop learners' critical awareness of issues pertaining to race, class, and gender. There has also…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Political Issues
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Sakulprasertsri, Kriengkrai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
In Thailand, there is a growing need for Thai undergraduate students to be well-equipped with necessary English skills that can be used in real life situations. One way to prepare them is by introducing multimodality to English pedagogical practice. Multimodality is associated with the use of visuals, sounds, texts, gestures, and technology that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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McIntire, Amy Marie – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2020
Studying musical text effectively reinforces grammar structures and vocabulary taught in class while simultaneously developing cultural literacy, a critical component in second language acquisition. Musical text facilitates a multimodal learning experience as it combines the verbal and aural modes, and is often accompanied by the visual mode. In…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Cultural Awareness
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Jiang, Lianjiang; Yu, Shulin; Zhao, Yi – ELT Journal, 2020
Although there is a growing call for L2 teachers to invest in using digital multimodal composing (DMC) as an instructional activity, there is a paucity of research on whether and how L2 teachers invest in DMC, and the impact of DMC on their teaching and changing identities remains underexplored. This study reports on a longitudinal case study of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers
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Gupta, Abha – International Education Studies, 2019
This conceptual paper presents diverse approaches and strategies for preparing competent teachers who work with either English Language Learners (ELLs) or students who speak English as a Second Language (ESL). The pedagogical approaches discussed herein include practical and hands-on activities for teachers at any level. Bilingual learning…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, English Language Learners, English Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Oskoz, Ana; Elola, Idoia – CALICO Journal, 2016
This article provides an overview of how digital stories (DSs)--storylines that integrate text, images, and sound--have been used in second-language (L2) contexts. The article first reviews the methodical and planned, albeit non-linear, steps required for successful implementation of DSs in the L2 classroom and then assesses the observed…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Program Implementation
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Carter, Katherine – English Teaching Forum, 2015
The descriptive paragraph and subsequent essay are usually among the first assignments students must complete in composition classes. Typically, students are told to describe their childhood home, a person of importance, a special object, or a summer vacation. Most students, especially learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), have…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Gonzales, Laura – Composition Forum, 2015
This article situates one possible future for rhetorical genre studies (RGS) in the translingual, multimodal composing practices of linguistically diverse composition students. Using focus group data collected with L1 (English as a first language) and L2 (English as a second language) students at two large public state universities, the researcher…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, English
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Ajayi, Lasisi – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
This research investigates how three female Nigerian high school students were taught to deploy critical multimodal literacy to interrogate texts and reconstruct unequal social structures. A class of ninth-grade students in an all-women school was given instruction through the analysis of how multiple modes were used to represent meanings in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Critical Literacy, High School Students
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