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Tomáš Kos – TESL-EJ, 2024
Peer collaboration benefits second language (L2) learning and is a cornerstone of effective classroom instruction. It is, therefore, essential for teachers to consider how tasks work to promote peer collaboration and thus maximize learning. These considerations concern the task type, a task's inherent characteristics, and possible ways of task…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Le Thanh Thao; Pham Trut Thuy – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study investigates the strategies employed by Vietnamese EFL teachers to enhance emotional intelligence (EI) in adult learners within online learning environments. Utilizing a qualitative research design grounded in Mayer and Salovey's model of emotional intelligence and Knowles's theory of andragogy, the study involved semi-structured…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Andragogy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Eslami, Zohreh; Moody, Stephanie; Pashmforoosh, Roya – TESL-EJ, 2019
The growth of English worldwide has brought about myriad variations of the language, but many teachers in the United States are still relatively unfamiliar with these World Englishes (WE). Pre-service teachers must be made aware of the legitimacy of WE to become culturally responsive educators. We will describe six different activities designed to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Bekleyen, Nilüfer; Selimoglu, Figen – TESL-EJ, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the learners' behaviors and perceptions about autonomous language learning at the university level in Turkey. It attempts to reveal what type of perceptions learners held regarding teachers' and their own responsibilities in the language learning process. Their autonomous language learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study, College Students
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Kuo, Jun-­min – TESL-EJ, 2015
This study explores an activity designed to promote critical literacy in Taiwan. This activity had 23 college students perform different exercises all stressing the theme of self-identity as presented in a picture book and other learning sources. Data included classroom observations, reflection entries from the researcher­-instructor, classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Worksheets, Student Attitudes
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Mellow, J. Dean – TESL-EJ, 2002
To achieve the goal of principled eclecticism (coherent, pluralistic language teaching), this article proposes principles for categorizing, selecting, and sequencing teaching and learning activities. Activities are categorized in relation to the two-dimensional model, four quadrants that result from the intersection of the dimensions of language…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learning Activities, Linguistics, Models