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Yuya Arai; Kotaro Takizawa – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
Despite the preponderance of research on extensive reading (ER), the research field still suffers from a lack of common understanding of what ER is and how it should be implemented. From the perspective of Day and Bamford's (2002) seminal ten principles for teaching ER, the present methodological synthesis aimed to systematically review and…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Educational Principles
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Yigitbilek, Demet – TESL-EJ, 2022
Deficiency-oriented attitudes are still common occurrences despite growing emphasis on linguistic and cultural diversity. Promoting inclusivity in learning, Herrera (2016) proposed "biography-driven instruction" emphasizing the power of students' assets. Though her work was intended for young learners' biliteracy, I argue that the tenets…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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David, Rosa Dene; Anderson, Carl Edlund – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2022
This paper proposes the design of an instructional model, referred to as the universal genre sphere, for teaching academic writing in a manner appropriate to all learners, but developed especially with consideration for the needs of English as additional language students with or without diagnosed learning differences. Despite growing research on,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Design
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Musleh, Omran Ahmad; Ibrahim, Mohamed Abdelrahman; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims to investigate the attitudes of non-Arabic students towards reading short stories in Arabic at universities in Malaysia, with a focus on three variables: the students' university, gender, and mother tongue. A mixed-methods approach was employed, using a questionnaire and semi-structured focus group discussion with 58 participants.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Song, Qiuyuan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to explore how corpus-based approaches can be used to address the distinctions of English near-synonyms effectively. Especially, it collected source data from the British National Corpus (BNC) and adopted Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool to compare the near synonymous pair "damage" and "destroy" commonly…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, English, Language Usage
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Ashrafuzzaman, Md.; Ahmed, Iftakhar; Begum, Mariam – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study intends to focus on the application of English literature in developing four language skills and language areas like vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of undergraduate English learners in Bangladesh. The study also pays attention to the role of different genres of literature (i.e. poetry, short fiction, drama and novel) in the way…
Descriptors: English Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bergstrom, Tait – Composition Forum, 2021
This case study of students enrolled in a composition course at a large public university examines multilingual students' application of multimodal composition practices to writing assignments that emphasize delivery and circulation. Assignments in which students remediate or translate a text in one genre or medium into another are widely used to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Writing Instruction, State Universities, Multilingualism
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Tardy, Christine M.; Sommer-Farias, Bruna; Gevers, Jeroen – Written Communication, 2020
Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre knowledge, genre awareness, recontextualization, conditional knowledge, and metacognition. Definitions of these concepts have at times conflicted, and their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Metacognition
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Yoon, Hyung-Jo; Polio, Charlene – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
This study examined narrative and argumentative essays written over the course of a 4-month semester by 37 students of English as a second language (ESL). The essays were analyzed for development over time and for genre differences. The goal of the study was to conceptually replicate previous studies on genre differences (e.g., Lu, 2011) and on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Sowell, Jimalee – English Teaching Forum, 2019
The use of writing models with nonnative English speakers has received a certain amount of criticism--especially from teachers whose students copy models in their entirety or follow them too closely. The misuse of models has brought some teachers to the point where they believe that the best kind of pedagogy is to abandon writing models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Discourse Modes
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Brown, Amanda; Lally, Robert – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
The critical importance of second language (L2) input, output, and interaction in TESOL notwithstanding, the decision between immersive (L2-English only) versus nonimmersive approaches is considered "the most fundamental question facing second language acquisition (SLA) researchers, language teachers, and policymakers" (Macaro, 2014, p.…
Descriptors: Intervention, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kathryn Accurso; Meg Gebhard; Grace Harris; Jennie Schuetz – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter explores how systemic functional linguistics (SFL) can contribute to secondary teachers' effectiveness for teaching disciplinary literacies to refugee youth in the United States. The chapter describes the Milltown Multimodal/Multiliteracies (MMM) Collaborative, an SFL-based professional development partnership between a large public…
Descriptors: Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Malova, Irina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This comparative case study investigated integrated reading-writing instruction (IRWI) as an approach for writing instruction implemented after the adoption of Common Core State Standards (NGA & CCSSO, 2010a). Specifically, I explored the nature of IRWI through video-recorded observations of writing instruction, teachers' perspectives towards…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Literacy Education, English
Sembiante, Sabrina F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative case study examines the nature of a dual language preschool teacher's instructional practices and extratextual talk during shared-book reading practices with two different genres of books in Spanish and English. Specifically, I explore the interpersonal, ideational, and textual features of one teacher's talk in English- and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Spanish, English (Second Language)