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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Hui, Anna Na-Na; Li, Zhen; Dong, Yang – Language Teaching Research, 2023
As an effective teaching approach that allows teachers and students to interact collaboratively and actively build on each other's ideas, dialogic teaching can enhance classroom engagement and learning outcomes. This study addresses the use of dialogic teaching for improving English language learning among Chinese children with varied levels of…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grade 1
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Zhan Xia; Omer Hassan Ali Mahfoodh; Malini N. G. Ganapathy – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study examines the effects of monologic and dialogic task sequences on incidental vocabulary learning among 115 students in four intact classes of a Chinese vocational high school. Twenty vocabulary items including words, phrases and fixed expressions ranging from high to low frequency levels were targeted. Students were required to complete…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Bakhoda, Iman; Christ, Tanya; Chiu, Ming Ming; Cho, Hyonsuk; Liu, Yu – Journal of Literacy Research, 2022
We explored (a) emergent bilingual students' talk-turns during read-alouds, (b) how earlier talk-turns were related to later talk-turns, and (c) how talk-turns varied across more versus less culturally relevant books. One teacher and her four students' read-alouds across two sessions each were video-recorded and transcribed. Emergent coding was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Teaching Methods
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Parba, Jayson – Education Sciences, 2021
Engaging in critical dialogues in language classrooms that draw on critical pedagogical perspectives can be challenging for learners because of gaps in communicative resources in their L1 and L2. Since critically oriented classrooms involve discussing social issues, students are expected to deploy "literate talk" to engage in critiquing…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Critical Theory
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Jakobsson, Anders; Kouns, Maria – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
In this study, we have explored the ways in which small-group work in science can contribute to strengthen multilingual students' subject language and conceptual development when working with language-oriented classroom activities in primary classrooms. The aim is to determine whether it is possible to identify factors in interactions in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. Cecilia; Santo, Jonathan – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Spanish learners engaged in two-way interaction gap tasks where, through social interaction, they identified and defined low-frequency vocabulary. Participants (referred to as actors to differentiate them from task partners) completed two such tasks. Each time, they collaborated with different partners of varying degrees of Spanish proficiency and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Sinclair, Arabella; McCurdy, Kate; Lucas, Christopher G.; Lopez, Adam; Gaševic, Dragan – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Prior research has shown that, under certain conditions, Human-Agent (H-A) alignment exists to a stronger degree than that found in Human-Human (H-H) communication. In an H-H Second Language (L2) setting, evidence of alignment has been linked to learning and teaching strategy. We present a novel analysis of H-A and H-H L2 learner dialogues using…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods
Barnes, Erica M.; Grifenhagen, Jill F.; Dickinson, David K. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This practical guide shows teachers how to introduce academic language to young children, with an emphasis on appreciating and leveraging linguistic diversity. New educational standards are asking students to master content-area concepts and increasingly complex texts in earlier grades. This practitioner-friendly text provides instructional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Language, Language Usage, Kindergarten
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Kaivanpanah, Shiva; Miri, Mowla – TESOL Journal, 2017
This study examined how task type can affect the ways in which learners resolve lexical language-related episodes (LREs) and consequently how their vocabulary learning in the LREs is influenced. An intact class of Iranian learners (N = 24) of English as a foreign language were paired up to write a composition and complete a cloze task. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zarrinabadi, Nourollah; Ebrahimi, Aniya – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This article reports on a study which employed a flipped classroom strategy to increase the amount of peer dialogue among a group of Iranian EFL learners. The flipped strategy used in this study required the students to study some online materials provided for students via a social network called Telegram. Before attending the class, the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Video Technology, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Fagan, Keenan Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Numerous studies from China report that student teachers in English language teaching practicums resist communicative language teaching, CLT (Hu, 2002), to follow mentor teacher cultural practices of teaching to the Gaokao through explanations of vocabulary and grammar. This study addressed a knowledge gap to investigate the CLT problems and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Huang, Jin-Xia; Lee, Kyung-Soon; Kwon, Oh-Woog; Kim, Young-Kil – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper presents an automatic dialogue scoring approach for a Dialogue-Based Computer-Assisted Language Learning (DB-CALL) system, which helps users learn language via interactive conversations. The system produces overall feedback according to dialogue scoring to help the learner know which parts should be more focused on. The scoring measures…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dialogs (Language)
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Haidee Thomson – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
This article introduces three important challenges and possible solutions when using spoken dialogue to measure the use of specific multiword expressions. The first challenge is deciding whether to count precise and accurate use of target expressions only or whether to extend the count to include variation. The second challenge requires addressing…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Speech Communication, Accuracy, Language Usage
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Manabe, Kinnosuke; Cai, Dong-Jhe; Ma, Zhao-Heng – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
The aim of this study is to present three contributing factors to kinesthetic learning. This study employed advanced recognition technologies, pedagogical mechanisms, and interesting activity design. First, kinesthetic learning with a speaking accuracy measuring function to facilitate English as foreign language (EFL) learning is proposed. Namely,…
Descriptors: Kinesthetic Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Suzuki, Wataru, Ed.; Storch, Neomy, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging authors from around the globe. They report on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
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