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Direct linkConroy, Mark Andrew – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This study explored the experiences and language gains of Chinese-background English language learners living in homestays during a short-term study abroad (SA) programme in Australia. Forty-one learners took part in listening dictation pre- and post-tests to assess their acquisition of idiomatic phrasal verbs, and also completed weekly journals…
Descriptors: Chinese, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Diaries
Romero, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the age of high stakes accountability, districts are being asked to provide and demonstrate academic achievement for all students including English Learners(ELs), who maybe also be identified as Emergent Bilinguals (EBs), or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD). This becomes increasingly challenging especially for small rural districts…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Interviews, Pretests Posttests, Observation
Download full textTolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Guevara, Diana Carolina – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
We present findings of a project that investigated the potential of an online tandem program to enhance the foreign language learning of two groups of school-aged beginner learners, one learning English in Colombia and the other learning Spanish in New Zealand. We assessed the impact of the project on students' learning with a free writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Caldecott, Marion; Emmioglu, Esma – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2017
Team-based learning (TBL) has been shown to improve many aspects of student learning, but no previous research has systematically examined the effects of group exams on English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in university classrooms. This study is a small-scale action research examining the role of students' English language status in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
Makinina, Olga – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
Currently there is a general uncertainty about what makes collocations (i.e., fixed word combinations with specific, not easily interpreted relations between their components) hard for ESL learners to master, and about how to improve collocation recognition and learning process. This study explored and designed a comparative classification of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Recognition (Psychology), Pretests Posttests, Reading Comprehension
Makalela, Leketi – Language and Education, 2015
This paper reports on an investigation into the efficacy of a teacher preparation programme that introduced the teaching of African languages to speakers of other African languages in order to produce multi-competent and multi-vocal teachers. A mixed method approach was used to elicit from a pool of 60 (30 experimental; 30 control group)…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Control Groups, Experimental Groups
