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Dawson Sylvia; Padmanabha C. H. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
The enhancement of bilingual vocabulary in government secondary schools is essential for equipping students with the linguistic skills necessary for success in a globalized world. Despite the considerable benefits of bilingual education, challenges such as rigid curricula, inadequate teacher training, limited resources, and varied student…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Vocabulary Development, Family School Relationship, Secondary School Students
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Bohdana Labinska; Liliya Morska; Olha Homeniuk – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The article describes the key features of the system of foreign language teacher professional training in Bukovina in 1918 to 1940. Bukovina is an area of present-day Western Ukraine, which in the period under study belonged to Romania. The study has been carried out in the form of an analysis of the components constituting the system of foreign…
Descriptors: Educational History, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Hongqin Li; Lin Pan; Philip Seargeant; David Block – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study explores how preservice English teachers in China perceive and leverage their Chinese and English linguistic repertoires in ELT methodology training, and how a reflective understanding of their use of these repertoires can contribute to their development as teachers. To understand how their practices and conceptualizations of language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
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Zhou, Sihan; Thompson, Gene – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Listening to academic content in English medium instruction (EMI) classrooms at university can be a demanding task for students who transition from first language (L1) instructed secondary schools. This longitudinal mixed methods study analyzes data from 316 students collected at the beginning, midterm, and the end of their first semester after…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Longitudinal Studies, English for Academic Purposes
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Revathy B. R. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
This paper explores the adoption of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in primary classrooms, emphasizing that language acquisition is best achieved through meaningful communication rather than rote memorization. Drawing on Krashen's Input Hypothesis and Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory, the study highlights the importance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Ekaterina Tabenkina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present project is a research-based and practice-tested online synchronous curriculum for English language learners with the Russian language mother tongue. The curriculum's theoretical component is grounded in Vygotsky's, Leont'ev', and Engestrom's "Cultural Historical Activity Theory" as well as in scholarly papers on the influence…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Anh-Hang Trinh; Hanh Dinh – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to theorize that computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can be integrated in English language learning with a focus on cultural learning of both home and target language. Design/methodology/approach: The present study used a systematic methodology to conceive the language and home-culture integrated online…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design
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Tam, Angela Choi Fung – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The discourse around combining local, national and international languages constitutes an important issue in the global education agenda (Kirkpatrick and Chau 2008). Ideas about how trilingual education ought to be designed and implemented vary across stakeholders. This study explores (1) the beliefs which early childhood education (ECE -- ECE…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Language Usage, Native Language
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Munro, Murray J. – CATESOL Journal, 2018
Mid-20th-century scholars argued that second language (L2) instruction should be rooted in a comparison of the structural characteristics of the first language (L1) and L2. Their enthusiasm for a "scientific" approach to errors reflected the view, based on the contrastive analysis hypothesis (CAH), that learners' difficulties could be…
Descriptors: Prediction, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Difficulty Level
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Suraweera, Dulani – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
While learning and teaching English as an additional language are lifelong learning processes for both learners and teachers, these two sectors are largely dominated by West-centric linguistic and cultural imperialism, epistemic hegemony, racism, and neoliberalism, which are tied to colonialism and imperialism. In light of this issue, I argue that…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Peeters, Ward; Mynard, Jo – Language Awareness, 2023
To assist second language learners in becoming effective, aware, and reflective participants in higher education, support can be provided by integrating structured awareness raising approaches in the language curriculum. Drawing on self-regulation principles, such a structured awareness raising curriculum is most notably sustained by reflective…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Skerrett, Mere – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
This article emphasises some of the shifts highlighted by the Ministry of Education in the refreshed "Te Whariki: He Whariki Matauranga mo nga Mokopuna o Aotearoa--Early Childhood Curriculum" (Ministry of Education, 2017) ("Te Whariki 2017"). Some of those shifts include the ideas of "Te Whariki 2017" being a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biculturalism, Critical Literacy, Curriculum Design
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Zabolotna, Oksana; Shchudlo, Svitlana; Medina, Tetiana; Panchenko, Ielyzaveta; Kozlov, Dmytro – Advanced Education, 2019
Underachievement among national minority group students in places of their compact residence in Ukraine makes them vulnerable to educational failure. This problem is noticeable in Chernivtsi Region of Ukraine where the multicultural character causes peculiar behaviour in politics, migration, economic and cultural activities as well as in…
Descriptors: Ukrainian, Minority Group Students, Language Minorities, Teaching Methods
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Levine, Glenn S. – Language Teaching, 2014
The social and cultural "turn" in language education of recent years has helped move language teaching and curriculum design away from many of the more rigid dogmas of earlier generations, but the issue of the roles of the learners' first language (L1) in language pedagogy and classroom interaction is far from settled. Some follow a…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language), Curriculum Design
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Braden, Sarah; Wassell, Beth A.; Scantlebury, Kathryn; Grover, Alex – Language and Education, 2016
Increases in the number of English language learner (ELL) students in the United States has led to a significant need for research that explores teaching and learning for ELL students in science and other content-area classrooms. This qualitative study investigated middle-school ELL students' (N = 12) beliefs and practices surrounding science…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, English Language Learners
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