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Vu, Mai Trang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
If enhancing the connection between teaching and research has been highlighted in the general English language teaching profession, does English teaching at university -- the ivory tower characterized by research -- face the same issue? And how might this affect how the profession is perceived? This study provides an in-depth examination of how…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ramdani, Junjun Muhamad; Baker, Sally; Gao, Xuesong – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic forced university-based language teachers to rely on technology for teaching. While the challenges of the rushed move to online teaching have been well documented, less is known about how teachers adapted to online teaching through professional development. This article focuses on the experiences of four English-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sahan, Kari – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Ernesto Macaro is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. He was the founding director of the EMI Oxford Research Group (formerly the Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction) in the Department of Education. His research focuses on second language learning…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Faculty
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Lu, Yen-Hui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This study examines the impact of interdisciplinary teacher collaboration on English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers' professional development in higher education. Five content teachers from a variety of academic backgrounds jointly designed, developed and implemented an interdisciplinary EMI course at a private university in Taiwan. Based on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language of Instruction, Teacher Collaboration
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Richards, Jack C.; Pun, Jack – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The use of English to teach content subjects has been a growing trend in many parts of the world. It is labelled in a variety of ways, such as content-based learning, content and language integrated learning, immersion education, theme-based language teaching, and bilingual education, but it is referred to in this paper as English-medium…
Descriptors: Classification, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kohnke, Lucas; Zou, Di; Zhang, Ruofei – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
In higher education, understanding discipline-specific vocabulary can be challenging. Insufficient vocabulary can be a major challenge for students as they begin their university studies. This study examined university undergraduate English language learners' discipline-specific vocabulary retention when they used an in-house developed mobile app,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocabulary Development, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Yuan, Rui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
While there is a growing research interest in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) teaching and learning in university contexts, relatively limited attention has been paid to EMI teacher development. Drawing on my past and ongoing teaching and research practice as an EMI teacher educator, this Viewpoint article considers the emotional,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
With digital literacies becoming an essential competency for teachers across the world, recent educational policies in India emphasize teachers' ability to use digital technologies for pedagogic purposes and the use of digital technologies by teachers as one of the evaluation criteria for ranking institutions. In the absence of any properly…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Dewey, Martin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This viewpoint article provides a critical reflection on the gatekeeping and academic language practices of Anglophone universities, evaluating these in light of the promotional claims universities make about internationalization and global reach. I then consider the arguments put forward in each of the main articles in this special issue from…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Oostendorp, Marcelyn – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
The transformation of higher education has been a pressing concern for policy makers and practitioners. This article provides examples of the transformative potential of assessments designed within the framework of a multi-literacies and heteroglossic pedagogy in an Applied English Language course at a South African university. These assessments,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cancino, Marco – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2015
The present paper seeks to assess the opportunities for learner involvement and negotiation of meaning that teachers provide in the unfolding interaction in an EFL setting. Classroom data from a Chilean EFL setting were collected in order to assess how teachers deploy a number of interactional features when managing contingent learner turns. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Song, Geraldine; Hoon, Lee Hwee; Alvin, Leong Ping – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
Much research work on teacher feedback has concentrated on the perceptions of students and teachers on feedback, but few studies have addressed the extent to which students respond to their teachers' written feedback, particularly at the tertiary level. This study analysed the extent to which students made appropriate revisions based on the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Teacher Student Relationship
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Kim, Ah-Young Alicia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2014
Although there has been a plethora of research on how Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been implemented in instruction, few have examined how teacher's beliefs about CLT affects assessment of their students and peers. Thus, this study examined how English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors' teaching beliefs affected not only their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interviews, English (Second Language)
Todd, Richard Watson; Chaiyasuk, Intisarn; Tantisawetrat, Nuantip – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2008
Instructions are an under-researched aspect of classroom discourse. In this paper, we attempt to describe the functional structure of teacher instructions using the framework proposed by Sinclair and Coulthard (1975). We examine nine directing transactions or sets of instructions from four lessons taught on an English for Academic Purposes course…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Todd, Richard Watson – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
This paper looks at the functions of repetition of lexical items which fall within a single T-unit. Examining data from a foundation English course at a Thai university, transcripts of eliciting transactions from 12 lessons were divided into T-units. Within-unit repetitions were identified and categorized. Categories of repetition found, in order…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Classroom Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction