Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to explore the use of a hybrid telehealth approach following a Teach-Model-Coach-Review intervention format as a means to increase caregivers' ability to use language facilitation techniques with their children diagnosed with expressive language delay (ELD) in need of early intervention (EI) services.…

The effectiveness of written corrective feedback, WCF, has been much disputed even till the present day. Various strategies of WCF are still being developing with the aim to enhance students' writing performance especially in the English language. Coded corrective feedback, CCF, is classified as an indirect WCF method, and the studies of CCF are…

Gesture recognition can create an interactive environment in which to train children to control their thoughts, gestures, and body postures when performing learning activities. This study integrated gesture recognition and a memory strategy to develop a physical learning activity for preschoolers to improve their English learning performance,…

Background: Accessing research can be difficult for individuals with developmental language disorder (DLD) and their supporting networks (e.g., family, speech-language therapists, and teachers). This challenge may be attributable to the DLD community's difficulty with searching and paying for scientific research and the complexity of language used…

Purpose: This study investigated the language and cognitive skills of preschool children with sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs) with and without a co-diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD), considering possible differences between SCT types (i.e., XXX, XXY, and XYY). Method: Fifty-five children with a prenatally diagnosed SCT (19 XXX, 25…

Teachers across disciplines seek to support students' abilities to clearly communicate in writing, and to critically engage ideas and texts in argumentation, including argument writing and related classroom discussions. This qualitative study presents findings of source-based argument writing in science, social studies, and English language arts…

The identity construction of hard-of-hearing language learners has received limited attention in educational research. This study examined how two Chinese English learners navigated hearing impairment and constructed identities in a mainstream educational context. Using positioning theory as a conceptual framework, the study explored their…

Now more than ever before, language learners can autonomously engage with the target culture beyond the classroom through international television shows, online forums, video clips, and study abroad. Still, much of the literature has deemed the target-language dominant speaker (TLDS) as a key source of cultural knowledge, and, thus, the principal…

Sudden teachers' transition to an online context has remarkably influenced their professional identity construction. However, little is known about the tensions English Language Teachers (ELTs) experience during this shift. The present study examined ELTs' identity tensions in online courses, the relevant coping strategies, teachers' TPACK level…

The aim of the paper is to investigate India's language policy for its deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Although India's language policy has been examined in great detail in existing research, policies for deaf and hard-of-hearing have received little attention by scholars. In light of the scarcity of debate and research on policies for deaf…

This research sought to address three key questions: how EFL instructors in higher education integrated critical thinking (CT) skills into their teaching practices, what challenges they encountered during the integration process, and how EFL students perceived and experienced the impact of this integration. Five instructors from four universities…

Co-teaching is a common feature of language education in schools. It usually involves two adults holding different sets of expertise and working jointly with the same group of learners. Despite the prevalence of co-teaching in language educational settings, little is known as to how co-teaching is organised and negotiated in classroom talk.…

Nonverbal communication, particularly teachers' gestures, is important in improving students' comprehension of teacher-delivered verbal instructional content, engagement, and participation in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. This observational study investigated the impact of teachers' gestures on students' observed understanding of…

This study is a partial extension of a British Council study conducted on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in English language teaching across many regions of the world. The British Council study can be found on ResearchGate. This current study investigates pre-service teachers' views on the role of artificial intelligence in English…

"Building Classroom Culture Through Translanguaging: Theory to Practice" is a comprehensive guide for educators who want to create inclusive and effective classrooms that celebrate the diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students. It introduces the concept of translanguaging, a pedagogy that moves beyond traditional…