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Liu, Junshuan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This article explores native speakerism, a chauvinistic ideology, in reference to relevant literature. It first exposes its ideological essence and adverse effects on English language teaching (ELT), and then moves to deconstruct the native speakerist practices concerning English language teachers, English language norm, cultural foundation of ELT…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Del Toro, Zaily Patricia; Mercado, Ana Carolina; Manjarres, Milton Pájaro; Noriega, Luis Fernando; Watts, Willington; Sanchez, Milton Lopez – English Language Teaching, 2019
This article presents a reflection on the educational scenario that permeates the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in its political, methodological, didactic, curricular and investigative dimensions. A description of the current English reading comprehension level in the national context is presented. On the other hand, from a…
Descriptors: Barriers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Ghamdi, Asmaa – English Language Teaching, 2017
There are many important pedagogical factors that need to be implemented in classrooms including language classrooms in order to build an incentive learning environment for the students. This paper sheds light on two of these main pedagogical factors which are feedback and praise. The main purpose of this paper is to alter negative perceptions…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Recognition (Achievement)
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Alghamdi, Fatimah M. A.; Alnowaiser, Sarah A. M. – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study explores a field-motivated concern among English as a Foregin Language (EFL) teachers at a college preparatory English language program. The course syllabus for this program is fixed and systematically paced over four, seven-week modules. Despite formal assessment measures that result in placing the learners into four levels of English…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, English (Second Language), College Preparation, Focus Groups
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Chen, Jin; Lin, Jianghao; Jiang, Lin – English Language Teaching, 2016
Corrective feedback (CF) refers to the responses or treatments from teachers to a learner's nontargetlike second language (L2) production. CF has been a crucial and controversial topic in the discipline of second language acquisition (SLA). Some SLA theorists believe that CF is harmful to L2 acquisition and should be ruled out completely while…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Instruction
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Hu, Chunyu; Luo, Mengxi – English Language Teaching, 2016
From the 1990s, the multimodal turn in discourse studies makes multimodal discourse analysis a popular topic in linguistics and communication studies. An important approach to applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to non-verbal modes is Visual Grammar initially proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996). Considering that commercial advertisement…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Advertising, Visual Aids, Merchandise Information
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Enríquez, Jakeline Amparo Villota; de Oliveira, Andréia María Pereira; Valencia, Heriberto González – English Language Teaching, 2018
In this article we will discuss, through the explanations given by teachers who teach Mathematics, the importance of using teaching strategies in the implementation of tasks. Teachers who participated in it belong to the group "Observatory Mathematics Education" (OME-Bahia). This study was framed in a qualitative approach and data were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Task Analysis
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Valencia, Heriberto González; Enríquez, Jakeline Amparo Villota; Tigreros, María Eufemia Freire – English Language Teaching, 2018
In this research article an analysis and evaluation of virtual learning spaces is carried out. To address this process, three (3) academic virtual platforms were selected, Moodle, Blackboard and Jimdo. The methodology used was of a descriptive type, applying the synchronous and asynchronous methods of virtual teaching established in each of the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Instructional Innovation, Vignettes, Virtual Classrooms
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Zhao, Cairan; Pandian, Ambigapathy; Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar – English Language Teaching, 2016
In English as first language contexts, clear requirement for critical thinking (CT) has been listed in teaching guidelines and assessment criteria in higher education. At present, fostering language learners to be critical thinkers is valued in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching as well; yet how to achieve the objective remains a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Jiang, Shiyong – English Language Teaching, 2016
Foreign language teaching is a bilateral process in which both the teacher and students must play their roles effectively. However, lack of interaction is the problem many EFL teachers in China face. To make the teaching more effective, negotiation in the classroom becomes a must. This paper, based on the current situation of English teaching in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
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Zhou, Zhen – English Language Teaching, 2017
The teaching ability is the key factor to decide the quality of teaching. How to train and improve the teaching ability of teachers has become a widespread concern of experts and scholars in the field of education and linguistics. The research investigates the status of students' practical teaching ability in the higher vocational college,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Teaching Skills
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Al-Zahrani, Mona Yousef; Al-Bargi, Abdullah – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study examines the effect of questions on fostering interaction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. It also seeks to determine the characteristics of questions that promote increased classroom interaction. Data were collected through video recordings of EFL classrooms which were analyzed using Discourse Analysis techniques.…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, English (Second Language)
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Gibson, Charles – English Language Teaching, 2016
Despite a well-documented history of immigration in the United States of America and rise in population of students that speak a language other than English, academic achievement gaps between English Language Learners and their native English language speaking counterparts from Grades Pre-Kindergarten through the college/university level still…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Achievement Gap, Literature Reviews, Vocabulary Development
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Ren, Junhong – English Language Teaching, 2017
College English writing instruction has been a prominent research area in EFL field in mainland China. This paper has continued the focus by exploring a seemingly effective way for college English writing instruction in China--teaching writing based on reading on the basis of the "output-driven, input-enabled" hypothesis. This hypothesis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Nonmajors, English (Second Language)
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Liu, Juan – English Language Teaching, 2017
Language is an indispensable part of culture, and it is also a major carrier and medium of culture communication and transmission. Learning a foreign language means not only learning basic language knowledge, training and improving the ability of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating, but enriching the cross-cultural awareness,…
Descriptors: College English, Teaching Methods, Integrated Curriculum, College Second Language Programs
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