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Manli Long; Shifang Tang; Zhuoying Wang; Kara L. Sutton-Jones; Fuhui Tong – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2025
In this mixed-methods study, we investigated the relationship between instructional approach, students' self-efficacy beliefs, and students' English language proficiency, as well as the perceptions of the instructor and students regarding problem-based learning (PBL) in a College English course in China. Using path analysis, we assessed the…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Self Efficacy
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Zhou, Zhen – English Language Teaching, 2018
The critical thinking ability is an indispensable ability of contemporary college students, and the PBL teaching model abandons the shortcomings of traditional teaching methods, which is more suitable for the development trend of university curriculum teaching reform in China. In order to understand the influence of PBL teaching mode on college…
Descriptors: College Students, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Mohammadi, Fateme Shir – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
Language learners' cognitive engagement with the content in language classes has been advocated in the last few decades (Laufer & Hulstjin, 2001). To this end, the researcher designed authentic problem-based tasks which make use of learners' cognitive and metacognitive skills to solve real-life vocabulary tasks. Nelson vocabulary test was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Retention (Psychology)
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Ansarian, Loghman; Adlipour, Ali Akbar; Saber, Mehrnoush Akhavan; Shafiei, Elmira – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study investigated the effect of problem-based learning through cognition-based tasks on speaking proficiency of Iranian intermediate EFL learners in comparison to the effect of objective-based tasks. To this end, a true experimental research design was employed. Ninety five (N = 95) language learners studying at a language institute in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests