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Tan Bee Tin – TESOL Journal, 2024
Teachers often repeat language learning tasks and materials with students year after year. Although some tasks do not render satisfactory outcomes, students' performances can serve as valuable historical autoethnographic data that teachers can reflect on to improve their teaching materials and language learning tasks. In this article, using…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Creativity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Junming Ma; Chengyu Liu – TESOL Journal, 2025
Classroom academic presentation (CAP) has been perceived as an important academic genre integral to college learners' academic success. However, the schematic structure of CAP and learners' acquisition of it remain unclear. In this study, we identified its schematic structure with the method of metagenres and investigated L2 learners' generic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Juup Stelma; Achilleas Kostoulas – TESOL Journal, 2024
This article revisits complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and provides a new synthesis that, the authors argue, may empower language teachers. The particular focus is on the interplay between change and stability in complex dynamic systems, including language teaching and learning. The article identifies four key dynamical properties of complex…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teacher Empowerment, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Kutay Uzun – TESOL Journal, 2024
The genre-based approach (GBA) to teaching second language (L2) writing follows the stages of establishing context, modelling, analysis, joint construction, and independent construction. The passage from joint construction to independent construction in the GBA requires scaffolding. Thus, studies on GBA suggest teacher support in independent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students
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Brian White; Dan Brown – TESOL Journal, 2024
Many second language pedagogy experts recommend that curricular and instructional planning should begin with needs analysis. Few, however, recommend assessing students' strengths, and those that do seem not to consider learners' strengths to be integral to planning or instruction. Teacher preparation programs and materials that foreground needs…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Adult Students
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Jackie Ridley; Nicole King – TESOL Journal, 2024
While the importance of advocacy in TESOL has received greater attention in recent scholarship, less research has explored how English language teachers make meaning for their work as educators and advocates by acting within and beyond their official roles and responsibilities. This article explores how teachers in an after-school program…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, After School Programs, Advocacy
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Rashi Jain – TESOL Journal, 2024
Identities are fluid, dynamic, and contextual; and identity (co)construction is a deeply contextualized process, especially when seen through postmodern and poststructural lenses. Adopting a qualitative-researcher-as-bricoleuse stance, the author presents an overarching autoethnographic narrative where she specifically analyzes three critical,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Marie Alina Yeo; Jonathan Mark Newton – TESOL Journal, 2025
While it is widely accepted that language teachers require knowledge of second language acquisition (SLA) (Richards, 2010), what about content teachers, who are increasingly required to help develop their learners' academic language proficiency? How much do they need to know about SLA theories and how can they acquire such knowledge and expertise?…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Models
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Connie Siebold – TESOL Journal, 2024
Multilingual education and acculturation research share a parallel history of problematic research paradigms that center the majority viewpoint and view minorities through a lens of deficit. This continual pathology of cultural difference has led to the pathologization of minority individuals, and has hampered our efforts to effectively understand…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Acculturation
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Paulina Lehmkuhl; Benedikt Wagner; Stefanie Frisch; Dominik Rumlich; Judith Visser – TESOL Journal, 2025
The use of digital tools for second and foreign language lexical learning is increasingly popular and research in this area is constantly expanding. However, little has been written about specific criteria that could be used to identify tools with high-quality lexical input, as available checklists and frameworks for digital media tend to neglect…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pilot Projects
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Fatemeh Faryabi; Mohammad Rahimi; Kristin J. Davin – TESOL Journal, 2024
The present study adopted a praxis orientation to second language (L2) research and pedagogy to explore the professional development needs of three English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers after their first attempt at implementing dynamic assessment (DA) of essay writing. To date, few studies have examined how teachers learn to implement DA,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Quanisha Charles – TESOL Journal, 2024
This article contributes to the TESOL paradigm by highlighting ways in which bodies of Black feminist thought, transnational feminism, and transnational Black feminism endeavors antiracist practices and support students via English language teaching (ELT). The author utilizes the Transnational Black feminist (TBF) framework--intersectionality,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Feminism, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Özgehan Ustuk – TESOL Journal, 2025
Language teacher educators all around the world work in multiple countries and institutions throughout their careers across institutional, national, and academic cultures. As higher education becomes more transnational in some regions (including Hong Kong), it has also become more common for language teacher educators to construct transnational…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnography
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Kanako Yamaoka – TESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigates whether Japanese university students' motivation to communicate in English was enhanced through the application of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) practices. Fifty-three non-English majors took a CLIL English class that utilized massive open online course (MOOC) content for a semester. They gave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Martínez-Alba, Gilda; Herrera, Luis Javier Pentón – TESOL Journal, 2023
Peace and restoration (henceforth, peacebuilding) have become buzzwords as we continue to wrestle with global problems. In this article, the authors focus on storytelling as a form of peacebuilding using wordless books (or picture books without words), with a focus on how peacebuilding may be conceptualized and woven into the fabric of the English…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Picture Books, Social Emotional Learning
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