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Angela Lee-Smith – NECTFL Review, 2024
This article explores how music and lyrics serve as modes of storytelling in the language classroom, integrating a multimodal approach and the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. In the 'Sing My Story' project, language students creatively write their own lyrics, which are subsequently performed by either student musicians or target…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Story Telling, Teaching Methods
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Elizabeth Machin; Elsa Tragant – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
The present study seeks to offer insights into how former study abroad students, temporally beyond the period of initial re-entry into their home environments, perceive Spanish as a foreign language in their lives now. This post-sojourn period is explored within the framework of the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2009) and the expanded…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wei, Li-Wei – Online Submission, 2023
The perennial challenge of reading fluency, notably profound among Asian EFL learners, stems largely from linguistic disparities, conventional teaching paradigms, and ingrained cognitive practices. This study critically investigates the challenges Chinese undergraduates face with English reading fluency, notably due to linguistic disparities and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Comparative Analysis
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Susana A. Eisenchlas; Kelly Shoecraft – Student Success, 2024
This practice report describes a 12-week stand-alone course designed to address the challenges university students face in foreign language classes. Adopting principles of transformative language learning, course content, activities and resources were designed and implemented to dispel myths and preconceptions regarding language instruction,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yazid Basthomi; Francisca Maria Ivone; M. Kharis; Joko Slamet – Online Learning, 2025
This study addresses critical gaps in English proficiency assessments, particularly for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, by focusing on the foundational aspect of needs analysis in designing a platform to assist EFL students in preparation for real English proficiency tests. The existing tests, such as TOEFL and IELTS, often fail to…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Harjuli Surya Putra – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
Teachers are vital internal pioneers who can make changes in their own classroom by developing an enhanced sense of agency. In multilingual classrooms, teacher agency is the capacity of language teachers to perform constructively for supporting students' linguistic diversity equitably. This study uncovers the potential strategy of teacher agency…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
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Chavez, Monika – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
This study explored how 296 U.S. learners of five foreign languages (FLs), including German, imagined stereotypical native speakers (NSs) and likely learners of German. Results showed that (a) when students of different languages imagined NSs of German, they emphasized different stereotypes; learners of German named the most and the most diverse…
Descriptors: German, Self Concept, Stereotypes, Native Speakers
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Shelton-Strong, Scott J. – Language Teaching Research, 2022
In this article self-determination theory (SDT) is used as a framework to explore ways in which 'advising in language learning' (advising) can be understood to support language learners' basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. These are defined in SDT as nutrients essential for integration, growth, healthy development…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Learning Theories, Student Attitudes, Self Determination
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Mitsikopoulou, Bessie – L2 Journal, 2020
This paper focuses on critical pedagogy and EFL teacher education and it argues that it would be unrealistic to expect students who have been educated through traditional university curricula (aiming to deliver content through a 'banking model') to become critical foreign language teachers and educators. The education of future teachers requires…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fernandes, Eugênia Magnólia da Silva – Hispania, 2021
Based on practical reflections on the role of language educators and Portuguese language learners in diasporic communities in the state of California, this short-form article shares academic contributions from the Luso-Brazilian Studies Program at the University of California, Davis, to underrepresented groups in Lusophone communities amidst the…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Kaowiwattanakul, Sukanya – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This study investigated English as a foreign language learners' global mindedness through the use of transformative learning experiences in the literature classroom. The sample consisted of 50 second-year English major students who were enrolled in the introduction to literature course in the academic year 2018 at a public university in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Tahir, Khazima – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of transformational teaching practices in learning and teaching of English as a second language in Pakistan. The study examined student descriptions about professorial charisma, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration in bachelor English programs, as well as how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Khoo, Elaine; Kang, Sohee – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022
Socializing students to Academic Integrity (AI) in the face of great cultural, linguistic and socioeconomic diversity in the student population in higher education calls for innovative strategies that are aligned with equity, diversity and inclusion principles. Through a mixed method of quantitative analysis of learner engagement data from the…
Descriptors: Integrity, Transformative Learning, Higher Education, Equal Education
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Reynolds, Alexandra – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This small-scale study draws on a higher education context where French-speaking students, "in situ" at Bordeaux University, participated in the Sharing Perspectives Foundation's flagship "Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange" (E+VE) program (2018-2019). French-speaking students interacted in English on the topic of "Newcomers and…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Learning Experience, Diaries, Exchange Programs
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Giannikas, Christina Nicole – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in Higher Education (HE) has a long-standing tradition in the language centres of the Cypriot academic world, much like in other European contexts. Even though Cypriot universities are advancing in educational technology, students enter bearing coursebook-led and teacher-centred learning experiences…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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