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Fleming, Mike – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This article is structured around four questions related to the arts, language and intercultural education. Are the claims for the value of the arts over-stated? Does the use of the arts in the service of non-art outcomes run the risk of distorting the art form itself? Is there a danger that incorporating the arts in language education will…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Art, Risk, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Byrnes, Heidi – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Offered as a conceptual and programmatic piece, this article suggests that, due to its explicit educational orientation, the domain of instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) is challenged to align theoretical choices, research preferences, and educational practices in the interest of improving instructed L2 learning. It addresses the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
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Lopriore, Lucilla – Language Teaching Research, 2020
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is a recent teaching approach widely adopted in numerous international contexts, especially in Europe where it was promoted as a way to promote language learning within the educational system. When implemented, CLIL predominantly involves subject content teachers using English to teach their subject.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kubanyiova, Magdalena – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Language learning happens across many sites of social interactions; those scarred by injustices, conflicts and structural violence as well as those characterized by conviviality of human encounters and acts of welcoming the stranger. This article outlines new directions for language teacher education in this age of ambiguity. I propose that its…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Peercy, Megan Madigan; Sharkey, Judy – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Inspired by the recognition of teachers and teacher learning in the knowledge base and the calls for greater attention to the pedagogies and development of teacher educators, in this brief essay we posit that a deeper understanding of the teacher educator as scholar, as practitioner, as researcher, is critical to the LTE knowledge base.
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Language Teachers, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development
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Teemant, Annela – Language Teaching Research, 2020
New audiences, new theoretical understandings of cognitive development and teaching, and the moral imperative to reach all learners and teachers require reframing how we assess our effectiveness in ELT. In this article, I present four areas of LTE that require reframing: (1) Who we prepare (2) with what content (3) to competently participate in…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Parsaiyan, Seyyedeh Fahimeh; Ghajar, Sue-San Ghahremani; Salahimoghaddam, Soheila; Janahmadi, Fatemeh – Language Teaching Research, 2016
The growing need for professional development requires the language teachers not to be mere consumers of commercial instructional materials or implementers of sets of mandated or recommended techniques, but to attempt to generate their own classroom materials, seek innovative pedagogical approaches, explore the contexts in which their designed…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Faculty Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pinner, Richard – Language Teaching Research, 2016
In this article I outline how and why I have established a self-assessment system for class participation scores in an English-speaking skills course at a Japanese university. I explain how my experience with one particular student, who personally admitted to having abused the system, led me to realize that elements from Yin and Yang have been…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Learning Experience, Student Evaluation, Scores
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Prince, Peter – Language Teaching Research, 2013
The listening comprehension skill is frequently cited by both teachers and learners of a second language (L2) as perhaps the most difficult to deal with in any systematic way. One possible approach is to use the dictogloss task. This involves learners reconstructing a short text they have listened to. Originally developed to draw learners'…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Grammar
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Lantolf, James P.; Poehner, Matthew E. – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article reports the efforts of an elementary school teacher of Spanish as a second language to implement principles of dynamic assessment (DA) in her daily interactions with learners. DA is neither an assessment instrument nor a method of assessing but a framework for conceptualizing teaching and assessment as an integrated activity of…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Second Language Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Sociocultural Patterns
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Barraja-Rohan, Anne-Marie – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article focuses on the use of conversation analysis (CA) to help teaching interactional competence in English to adult second language learners from lower to intermediate levels. To set the context, this article gives a brief overview on the use of CA in second language research as well as considering the construct of interactional competence…
Descriptors: Language Research, Classroom Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sampson, Richard – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This article presents an overview of action research conducted in an EFL university context, regarding primarily the relationship between individual possible self-images, socially constructed possible self-images, and language-learning motivation. The study used three cycles of action research over the course of one 15-week university semester,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, College Students
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Lyster, Roy; Ballinger, Susan – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article serves as the introduction to this special issue of "Language Teaching Research" on content-based language teaching (CBLT). The article first provides an illustrative overview of the myriad contexts in which CBLT has been implemented and then homes in on the five studies comprising the special issue, each conducted in a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Gunn, Cindy L. – Language Teaching Research, 2010
Many teacher training programs, including MATESOL programs, encourage their trainees to be reflective practitioners. The MATESOL program at The American University of Sharjah (AUS) is no exception and offers the students many opportunities for reflection. This article discusses my experience with a recent cohort's reaction to being asked to…
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Llosa, Lorena; Slayton, Julie – Language Teaching Research, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how program evaluation can be conducted and communicated in ways that meaningfully affect the education of English language learners (ELLs) in US schools. First, the paper describes the Waterford Early Reading Program Evaluation, a large-scale evaluation of a reading intervention implemented in schools with…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Program Evaluation, Early Reading, Reading Programs
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