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Zhang, Ruofei; Zou, Di; Cheng, Gary – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
EFL learners generally have the problem of logical fallacies in EFL argumentative writings. Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning that can undermine EFL argumentative writing quality. Explicit training on logical fallacies may help learners deal with the problem and enhance their self-efficacy and proficiency in EFL argumentative writing,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction
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Wróblewski, Bartlomiej; Petrenko, Olesya – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
A good command of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) among Czech engineers seems to be of crucial importance since the engineering field has been developing rapidly and the Czech labour market is becoming increasingly international (Eurostat 2020). The authors of this article, who supervise the ESP courses offered to the students of the Faculty…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Student Needs, English for Special Purposes
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Simbayi Yafele – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: South African literacy-as-social-practice theoreticians, language-in-education experts, educational linguists, and language policies advocate multilingual pedagogies to acknowledge and cater to diverse multilingual learners' literacy development. Universities purport multilingualism to provide for the multilingual norm, students'…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Alex Bakke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic forms characterized by their use as conversation organizers or pause fillers (Fox Tree, 2010). Although used frequently in both speech and writing, DMs are not often taught in L2 classrooms, despite incorrect usage causing potential misunderstandings (Polat, 2011). Additionally, L2 learners have been observed…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Classification
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Poudel, Kamal Kumar; Thapa, Rudra Bahadur – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Subjective critiques can often be heard about the quality of English language teaching and learning in higher education in Nepal -- both as being deteriorated and upgraded. This study stemming from the major finding of a previous one -- low grammatical proficiency of B. Ed. English majors studying at a community campus in Nepal -- was an attempt,…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Grammar, Undergraduate Students, Faculty Development
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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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Chrysafiadi, Konstantina; Troussas, Christos; Virvou, Maria – International Journal of Learning Technology, 2022
This paper addresses the interesting issue of mobile-assisted language learning using novel techniques for further improving the adaptivity and personalisation to students. The domain model of the system includes English and French language concepts, and its user model holds information about students and their progress. It also embodies a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), French
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Salih, Abdelrahman A.; Omar, Lamis I. – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2021
Globalized English offers interaction platforms, including cyber-based settings, for linguistically and culturally diverse speakers, particularly in the English as a second language/English as a foreign language context. Thus, it requires developing the intercultural competence of the parties involved. English users' different perspectives may…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Misconceptions, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication
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Lado, Beatriz; Del Valle, José – L2 Journal, 2022
Scholars have advocated for critical approaches to language education (e.g., Del Valle, 2014; Leeman & Serafini, 2016), including those that promote the development of "Critical Language Awareness, CLA" (e.g., Alim, 2010; Leeman, 2018). The goal is to develop students' critical knowledge of the cultural, political, and social…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Misconceptions
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Wengier, Sabrina – Dimension, 2022
Students gain a lasting impression of a course and of the instructor on the first day of class (Lang, 2019). In asynchronous online or hybrid classes, the equivalent of the first day of class is the Start Here module. This orientation module should contain essential information about class expectations and technology requirements and provide help…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Asynchronous Communication
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Chun, Christian W. – Classroom Discourse, 2020
Aside from mentioning possible issues of hidden identities and curriculum development relating to anorexia, little research has been done exploring how discourses of eating disorders and images of the body have been mediated by teachers and learners in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom. Drawing upon an ethnographic EAP classroom…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Curriculum Development, Eating Disorders, Discourse Analysis
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Howrey, Shannon Tovey – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2020
Misconceptions, stereotypes, and deficit views of Mexican immigrants are pervasive in the current U.S. media. Such views are inconsistent with culturally responsive pedagogy, and teachers who hold them will be impeded in their abilities to teach Mexican immigrant children effectively (Nathenson-Mejia & Escamilla, 2003). Research supports the…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Stereotypes, Mexican Americans, Immigrants
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Copeland Solas, Eddia; Wilson, Kenesha – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2017
Student-generated annotated concept sketches provide an alternative approach for instructors to formatively assess students' understanding of environmental topics, such as photochemical smog and ozone layer depletion. The sketches are external representations of students' cognitive models. Results obtained from a group of 150 female students using…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
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Khojastehrad, Shadi; Sattarova, Madina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
With the rapid development of communication and transportation technology, globalization has brought people of diverse cultures, ethnicities, geographies, and religions together. English is now the primary lingua franca, which is used to communicate with speakers of different native languages throughout the world. However, today the world is faced…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Swanson, Peter – ERS Spectrum, 2011
The purpose of this study was to recruit undergraduate students into language teaching by investigating students' perceptions of second-language learning and becoming a foreign language (FL) teacher in a rural context. The investigator used two quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with undergraduates in second- and third-semester FL…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Second Languages
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