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Leanne M. Evans; Tatiana Joseph; Sara Jozwik; Maggie Bartlett – TESOL Journal, 2024
The purpose of this article is to share the examination of inclusivity as a paradigm for fostering authenticity and agency (Moore, 2017) among teacher candidates. This framing challenges the notion of inclusion as a tool of meritocracy used to manage learners through expectations that uphold monolingualism, decenter racial histories, and rely on…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Early Childhood Teachers, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Yin Sun; Zehang Chen; Li Li – SAGE Open, 2025
This study investigates English teachers' beliefs and classroom practices regarding the teaching of creative thinking (CT) and explores the factors that hinder these practices. A mixed methods approach is adopted, drawing data from 63 middle school English teachers in China through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and classroom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creative Thinking, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Salah M. Ali; Kamariah Yunus; Turky Alshaikhi; Abdussalam Marie Aliia – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2025
The aim of the study is to investigate the use of digital technology in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom using various digital tools through computers and cell phones. These tools and their effect on self-perceived knowledge, learning, and English use were analyzed at the University of Tabuk. The study was conducted on a sample of 605…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Dávid Smid; Sarah Mercer; Carlos Murillo-Miranda; Miri Tashma Baum – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Well-being has been recognized as a basic human right, a core determinant of success in education, and a skill that can be developed. In language education, the literature suggests that higher well-being is likely to lead to more classroom engagement and ultimately greater success for learners. For English language teachers, there is a need to…
Descriptors: Well Being, English (Second Language), Multiple Literacies, Skill Development
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Curtis Chu; Mariko Takahashi – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
While various innovative pedagogical methods have been proven effective in facilitating the development of students' English language skills in different contexts, this study explores the implementation of several innovative methods in one EMI course, which includes collaborative online international learning (COIL), content language integrated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods
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Tachom, Khomkrit – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
This study aimed to examine the development of EFL students' vocabulary knowledge adopting a task-based method with 32 Thai students who enrolled in an English for Communication course at a university in northern Thailand. This study emphasized improving the Thai EFL students' English vocabulary knowledge by requiring students to retell six Thai…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Enkin, Elizabeth – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
The 2007 Modern Language Association report spurred research regarding the professional development of foreign language graduate students. This article first reviews existing proposals for the professional development of graduate students, then addresses the relevance of helping graduate students to develop the knowledge and skills that are needed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Graduate Students, Professional Development
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Abdrafikova, Albina R.; Akhmadullina, Rimma M.; Singatullova, Aliya A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article deals with regional experience in using modern strategies in teaching gifted children. The value of project and research activity is actualized as one of the most effective educational technologies in work with gifted children. The article shows examples of organization of combined project and research activities of student-teachers…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Teaching Methods, College School Cooperation, College Students
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Kozlova, Inna; Presas, Marisa – Teaching English with Technology, 2013
The use of online language resources for L2 text production purposes is a recent phenomenon and has not yet been studied in depth. Increasing availability of new online resources seems to be changing the very nature of L2 text production. The traditional dictionary, hitherto a default resource to help with language doubts, is being left behind…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, English for Special Purposes
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Bunch, George C.; Shaw, Jerome M.; Geaney, Edward R. – Language and Education, 2010
We report on the development and use of an analytical framework designed to articulate the language demands English learners (ELs) encounter on performance assessments such as those used in inquiry-based science classrooms. The Science Assessment Language Demands (SALD) Framework, grounded in functional and interactional views of language and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Science Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Skills
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Rodgers, Daryl M. – Modern Language Journal, 2006
Swain (1985) pointed out the need for increased modified output in the classroom in order to encourage learners to engage in more syntactic processing and, thus, make more form-meaning connections. Research in content-based instruction (CBI) ( Musumeci, 1996; Pica, 2002) has revealed few occasions of pushed modified output from learners.…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Second Language Instruction
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis