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Grant D. Moss, Editor; Leah McKeeman, Editor – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2025
The 2025 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages was held in Kansas City, Missouri on March 13-15. This year's theme, "Global Goals, Global Languages," highlighted the partnership of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) and language curricula. The Global Goals were created to address…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Teaching Methods
Xinghua Wang; Hui Pang; Matthew P. Wallace; Qiyun Wang; Wenli Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated the application of an artificial intelligence (AI) coach for second language (L2) learning in a primary school involving 327 participants. In line with Community of Inquiry, learners were expected to perceive social, cognitive, and teaching presences when interacting with the AI coach, which was considered a humanized…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
López Vélez, Jean Carlos; Villafuerte Holguin, Jhonny Saulo – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This work aims to improve the practices of English as a foreign language of early children through the articulation of Neuroeducation and the Total Physical Response methodology. This work subscribes to the postmodern paradigm and the mixed educational research approach. The participants were thirty-five students from the second grade of primary…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Nic Réamoinn, Susan; Devitt, Ann – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper explores how floor programmable robotics can be used during play to promote language development. This paper describes a two-day pilot in two early years classrooms and presents data collected on children's perception of the Irish language and using robotics. A sample of 48 children (age range six to seven years) took part in a robotics…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Robotics, Technology Uses in Education
Stoimcheva-Kolarska, Desislava Lyubomirova – Online Submission, 2020
The overall objective of this study is to examine and analyze the impact of a relaxed and fun atmosphere on the second language learning. This is a mixed method research. It combines some parameters from qualitative and some from quantitative type of research. The children were divided into two groups: experimental and control group with 16…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Second Language Learning, Game Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
Lai, Jung-Yu; Chang, Li-Ting – SAGE Open, 2021
The education community has gradually recognized the value of augmented reality (AR) technology and its positive impacts on student learning performance. Still, few studies have proposed specific solutions and results to confirm this phenomenon for first graders in English vocabulary learning. Hence, this research explores the effects of AR apps…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Computer Software, Computer Simulation
Fenyvesi, Katalin – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study has investigated, in a quantitative survey, how the attitudes toward English lessons and the motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) of 276 Danish EFL learners (starting age 7 and 9 years) changed within one year. Second, a subsample of children were interviewed. The study investigated what they liked and disliked…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation, Elementary School Students
Tadic, Nadja – Language and Education, 2019
Educators have long been advocating for the appropriation of students' interests into the classroom as a means of promoting participation and learning. However, little attention has been paid to the possible issues that interest-driven pedagogy might engender for both teachers and students through its blend of the personal and academic. This…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Video Technology
Hee Jin Bang; Kirsten Olander; Erin Lenihan – CALICO Journal, 2020
This study examines the English language learning outcomes of young Chinese L1 children when using a digital self-guided learning tool, ABCmouse "English Language Learning Academy" (ABCmouse ELL), created by Age of Learning, Inc. and designed based on principles of second language research. In a pretest, posttest study design, experiment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Bucknam, Jessica; Hood, Sally J. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This research describes language use by four first-grade students during mathematics and Language Arts instruction in a one-way 50/50 Mandarin immersion classroom. The urban public school was situated in the heart of an African-American community in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Participants were video- and audio-recorded…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Grammar, Vocabulary Development
Chen, Le; Karas, Michael; Shalizar, Mohammadreza; Piccardo, Enrica – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
To better understand the factors facilitating or impeding the translation of "promising controversies" (Taylor & Snoddon, 2013, p. 439) of plurilingualism theory into meaningful practices, this article presents a synthesis of 30 empirical studies on plurilingual pedagogy as enacted and experienced by educators and learners in various…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction