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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – TESOL Journal, 2019
Service learning has been widely applied across academic disciplines and educational settings for various purposes. This study involved a group of 24 Taiwanese students of English as a foreign language who helped a nonprofit organization translate community development stories and annual reports from English to Chinese. These documents were…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – TESOL Journal, 2018
This article describes how creativity is integrated into an English as a foreign language (EFL) reading classroom for a class of adolescent readers in Taiwan. The chosen focal material was a book called "Our Iceberg Is Melting" by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber, and the four language learning units in which creativity was infused were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Wang, Hung-chun; Lin, Ming-Fang – TESOL Journal, 2019
This study investigated how a literacy buddy approach may influence the English learning and creative writing of adolescent learners in a rural Taiwanese school. A group of seventh-grade and eighth-grade students took part in a winter camp, wherein they read and wrote picture books collaboratively. Based on the students' feedback, this approach…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Adolescents, Rural Schools
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Chou, Mu-Hsuan – TESOL Journal, 2016
Researchers of learner and language use strategies have long suggested that appropriate application of strategies can facilitate second or foreign language learning. Listening is the most fundamental skill in language learning, but for decades this skill was not emphasized in secondary schools in Taiwan. However, in 2012 a new national English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, High School Students
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Jung, Mi-Young – TESOL Journal, 2013
The aim of this study is to analyze a videoconferencing class for English as a foreign language (EFL), and to investigate how learners can develop their linguistic competence via videoconferencing. It examines the benefits and drawbacks of using videoconferencing systems in class. Forty-five students (19 graduates and 26 undergraduates) in a…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Lo, Yi-Hsuan Gloria – TESOL Journal, 2011
Research has shown that English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in Taiwan fall into two peaks of the curve. This is to say, learners can be classified into two major groups: those who perform quite well on standardized tests, such as college entrance examinations, and those who perform poorly. From a socioeconomic perspective, the correlation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning