Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 4 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 13 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 34 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 58 |
Descriptor
Curriculum Development | 173 |
Vocabulary Development | 173 |
Teaching Methods | 62 |
Second Language Instruction | 55 |
English (Second Language) | 45 |
Second Language Learning | 42 |
Foreign Countries | 29 |
Reading Instruction | 29 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 28 |
Reading Comprehension | 26 |
Grammar | 23 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Armstrong, Clayton | 2 |
Azizah, Dinar Martia | 2 |
Daniels, Cecilia | 2 |
Eisinger, Jane | 2 |
Gardner, David C. | 2 |
Humes, Ann | 2 |
Latham, Gavin | 2 |
Laurenzano, Mary | 2 |
Reilly, Joseph | 2 |
Ross, Steven | 2 |
Sugirin | 2 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Teachers | 37 |
Practitioners | 36 |
Administrators | 3 |
Students | 2 |
Researchers | 1 |
Location
China | 5 |
Canada | 4 |
Thailand | 3 |
United Kingdom | 3 |
United States | 3 |
Australia | 2 |
California | 2 |
Hawaii | 2 |
Indonesia | 2 |
Louisiana | 2 |
South Africa | 2 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 1 |
United States Constitution | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
General Educational… | 1 |
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills | 1 |
National Assessment of… | 1 |
Progress in International… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 2 |
Qing Xie – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
This study reports an investigative study with 55 English-major participants in a Chinese university about using simulation in business English correspondence teaching. The study found that participants had strong needs in practical skills development and learning business English correspondence writing. The simulation approach was perceived to be…
Descriptors: Business Education, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students
Ailie McDowall; Dianna Hardy; Vincent Backhaus; Kyly Mills; Felecia Watkin Lui – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2023
Indigenous studies has come a long way. In this paper, we share some bold steps we have taken to develop a learning process that situates Indigenous people as a people of place, a people of knowledge and a people of science. This teaching disengages students from learning about Indigenous people as remnants of the past. We extend earlier…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Disciplines, Learning Processes, Indigenous Populations
Aaron Churchill – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
In July 2023, Governor DeWine and the General Assembly enacted bold literacy reforms via his budget plan (House Bill 33) that require Ohio elementary schools to follow the Science of Reading starting in 2024-25. This approach to reading instruction emphasizes phonics to help students "decode" words, as well as knowledge- and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading, Learning Processes, Reading Instruction
Robinette, Robby L. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2021
As part of a mixed-methods reconnaissance action research study, I assessed the impressions teachers had of using an innovation configuration for vocabulary instruction at an English education center in China. The quantitative data strand consisted of lesson artifacts and documents. The qualitative data strand consisted of semi-structured…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Foreign Countries
Grapin, Scott E.; Llosa, Lorena; Haas, Alison; Lee, Okhee – TESOL Journal, 2021
The latest content standards in U.S. K-12 education are academically rigorous for all students, including a fast-growing population of English learners (ELs). Because these standards are different from previous standards in terms of not only their rigor but also their theoretical underpinnings, enacting instruction aligned to the standards will…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Noella Mackenzie – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: To become good at anything we need to practice. However, in the classroom context, much of the reading time is devoted to instruction rather than practice. Reading practice should be daily. Text choice, motivation and reading for pleasure all interact to support implicit learning. Design/methodology/approach: Review and synthesise the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Beginning Reading, Independent Reading
Bezuidenhout, Hanrie S. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: The South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) aims to expand science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning in the national curriculum through a "Digital Skills for All Curriculum" (DSfAC) for Grade R-9. The DSfAC intends to educate a STEM-literate future citizenry with refined computational thinking…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, STEM Education, Reading Programs, Curriculum Development
Inviolata Lunani Sore – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current global trends demand that we remain conscious of how distinct norms in groups we affiliate with affect decisions. Among developmental aspects, childhood language acquisition depends heavily on epigenetic interactions between the innate and the immediate environment (Sinha, 2017). This explanatory sequential mixed methods study explored…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Student Surveys, Decision Making, Language Acquisition
Sperry, Douglas E.; Sperry, Linda L.; Miller, Peggy J. – Child Development, 2019
In response to Golinkoff, Hoff, Rowe, Tamis-LeMonda, and Hirsh-Pasek's (2018) commentary, we clarify our goals, outline points of agreement and disagreement between our respective positions, and address the inadvertently harmful consequences of the word gap claim. We maintain that our study constitutes a serious empirical challenge to the word…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Definitions
Nithitwaraphakun, Kannaphat – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
The purposes of this study were to: (1) develop an English training course for local wisdom inheritance of One Tambon (Village) One Product (OTOP) in Amphawa district, Samut Songkhram province; (2) compare the English achievement results of the participants before and after the English language training; (3) study learners' English performance,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
He, Deyuan; Li, David C. S. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
With the largest number of English learners in the world, the influence of the English language teaching (ELT) reform in China cannot be underestimated. This article explores the implications of the actual use of English in China's workplace for ELT reform in the context of English as a lingua franca (ELF). On the basis of cross-validated data…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Drakos, Joseph – Online Submission, 2020
Many of the foreign language teachers and professors I have encountered throughout my EFL teaching career say that speaking is the most difficult skill to teach in a foreign language class. Classes usually focus on teaching points (e.g. grammar or listening related lessons) that can satisfy larger classroom situations. Speaking requires adequate…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Czellér, Mária; Nagy-Bodnár, Klára – Research-publishing.net, 2019
As economies are inevitably becoming dominated by multinational and global companies, the need for Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) is growing accordingly. Language institutes in higher education are trying to tailor their curriculum to meet the expectations of such companies each with their specific technical vocabulary. While LSP courses are…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Hayes, Mary Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Needs analysis (NA) has been a core component of language for specific purposes (LSP) research and curriculum development for the past half-century, and within the past decade has seen significant methodological advancement. Specifically, certain LSP NA research has adopted task as a unit of analysis (e.g., Youn, 2018; Malicka et al., 2019), and…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Spanish, Religious Education, Second Language Learning
Barnes, Erica M.; Stephens, S. Joy – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This study examines four of the most commonly-used core mathematics curricula in the USA for evidence of support for research-based instructional strategies for mathematics vocabulary in first and second grade. Content analyses of the teachers' editions of two units for each grade level were analyzed per curriculum (n = 16). Statistically…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Mathematics Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics