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Alain Bengochea; Sabrina F. Sembiante – Review of Education, 2024
This best-evidence synthesis appraises the design and outcome characteristics of vocabulary intervention studies conducted with preschool through 6th grade emergent bilingual (EB) children and spotlights rigorously designed studies for which effects could be better attributed to instructional features. Twenty-nine selected studies were analysed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
Margaret Chauke; Ramodungoane Tabane – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Primary school educators in South Africa often experience difficulties in applying recommended adaptive assessment methods in large multilingual classes, with these challenges being exacerbated when teaching and assessing English as First Additional Language (EFAL). In this article, we report on a study that explored Grade 6 educators' knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Assessment, Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction
Cil, Gulcan; Chaparro, Erin A.; Dennis, Caroline; Smolkowski, Keith – School Psychology, 2023
Best practice suggests that curricular decisions be made on the evidence base of the content and the contextual fit of the curriculum to the school setting, and with coaching to help teachers effectively use curricula. Messages from the federal government encourage school administrators and researchers to consider the costs of a program. The…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Middle School Students
Ziva R. Hassenfeld – Journal of Jewish Education, 2025
Using an original data set of task-based interviews, this paper presents findings on how Jewish day school students make sense of Biblical Hebrew verses in Biblical Hebrew. This paper pushes back against the convention in Jewish communal discourse to evaluate and label knowledge, shifting the focus instead to understanding how knowledge is…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Biblical Literature, Judaism, Day Schools
Gálvez, Juan Diego; Del Campo, Marcela – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This article reports the results of a study carried out at a public high school in Colombia whose objective was to design and determine how a reading comprehension module contributed to strengthening English literacy competence in sixth graders. The methodological framework entailed a basic outline of the action-research cycle. The qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, High School Students, English (Second Language)
Mark Feng Teng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Working memory (WM) may be an essential component of incidental vocabulary learning and retention from captioned videos. However, how WM affects young learners' incidental vocabulary learning under different types of captions remains unclear. The present study employs a between-subject research design. The main purpose is to examine how two types…
Descriptors: Captions, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Nima Dorji; Nipaporn Sakulwongs – THAITESOL Journal, 2024
The study was aimed to examine the use of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) through Cake application in improving speaking skill of grade 6 Bhutanese ESL students and to find out students' learning satisfaction about the use of MALL through Cake. A quasi-experimental research design was incorporated by selecting one section of 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Frederick J. Poole; Matthew D. Coss; Jody Clarke-Midura – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
This study explored the use of stealth assessments within a digital game to assess second language (L2) Chinese learners' reading comprehension. Log data tracking learners' in-game behaviors from a game designed for Chinese dual language immersion classrooms (Poole et al., 2022) were used to construct Bayesian Belief Networks to model reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Game Based Learning
Norphealey Eang; Sirirat Petsangsri; John Morris – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
English writing and critical thinking are not only fundamental to academic success but also play a crucial role for the holistic development of primary students. This study investigated the effects of a cloud-based gamified instruction integrating peer assessment on primary student English writing and critical thinking. A pre- and post-test with a…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Software, Grade 6, Critical Thinking
Gyewon Jang; Gertrude Tinker Sachs; Jee Hye Park – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
In response to becoming a more multicultural society, the South Korean Ministry of Education has implemented a multicultural education policy since 2006 by promoting English as key for young learners' communicative competence in a global world. Despite numerous previous studies on government-led curriculum and textbooks for English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Özcan, Ahmet – Online Submission, 2022
The aim of this study is to find out the perceptions of secondary students about learning the English language through metaphor analysis. The research was carried out with 432 students studying in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades of 6 primary schools in Yozgat city centre. Qualitative method and survey model were used in the study; typical case…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Tashi Wangchuk – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2023
Oral corrective feedback (OCF) plays an important role in language teaching and learning, but little research has examined Bhutanese teachers' practices of OCF on students' speaking performance and uptake. This paper reports on a mixed-method approach to investigate the rate of students' uptake on teachers' OCF within an ESL setting in Bhutanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Error Correction
Suh Keong Kwon – English Teaching, 2024
This paper investigates the cognitive processes involved in English word recognition among young EFL learners using eye-tracking methodology. A quasi-experimental mixed method design was used to investigate how young L2 learners engage with basic words, with or without pictorial cues. A total of seventeen 6th-grade pupils from two schools…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
España-Delgado, José Antonio – HOW, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way education was being taught. Due to school closures to prevent the spread of the disease, the education system resorted to distance learning to grant students' learning process. This research article reports a mixed-method study on technological resources and their impact on motivation during online lessons.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gamification, Online Courses, Second Language Learning
Araceli Enriquez-Andrade; Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui; Jie Zhang; Lana Kharabi-Yamato; Jackie Eunjung Relyea; Sissy S. Wong – Language and Education, 2024
This study explores teachers' use of Spanish in sixth-grade bilingual science classrooms at an urban middle school in Texas. We used a case study approach to study how two Spanish-English bilingual teachers utilized Spanish during instruction in a unit on space exploration and their beliefs on Spanish use in English-dominant science classrooms.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development