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Jakonen, Teppo; Jauni, Heidi – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Videoconferencing is increasingly used in education as a way to support distance learning. This article contributes to the emerging interactional literature on video-mediated educational interaction by exploring how a telepresence robot is used to facilitate remote participation in university-level foreign language teaching. A telepresence robot…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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John, Divya – Teaching English with Technology, 2018
The aim of the present study was to find out whether students' active involvement in classroom activities can promote language learning. This paper, using practitioner research, examines the active involvement of first-year engineering students in a film activity. The research took place in three phases: (1) the students were divided into five…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Participation, Class Activities, Assignments
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Verma, Meenakshi Harraw – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
Engineering students tend to pay more attention to their core subject classes rather than on an English language class. They all come from different social and academic backgrounds and their knowledge of English language varies from one another. A mixed ability group throws many challenges to an English language teacher teaching to a grown up or…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Language Acquisition, Engineering Education, College Second Language Programs
Huang, Hsiang-Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Employing interpretive theory, this study investigated 331 university ESL teachers' socialization in language programs for international students. Looking beyond teacher preparatory education, in-service teachers' workplace experiences are essential to study because experience is instrumental in the shaping of belief systems (Wu and Shaffer,…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Jacobs, George M.; Lie, Anita; Amy, Susan – Online Submission, 2006
This essay describes the development of an English coursebook that drew upon environmental education for the content. The book was designed to assist Indonesian university students in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The three authors of the present essay served as the book's three editors. The authors of the individual lessons in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, English Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Nakajima, Setsuko – 1992
"Application Performance," a supplemental drill in the Japanese language program at Oregon State University, is described as a way to develop students' communicative competence. The approach is a type of role play, with pairs of students preparing a dialogue according to a situation provided by the instructor and then performed in class.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs