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Payant, Caroline; Bell, Philippa – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Literacy in a first language or in additional languages involves a set of complex cognitive, social, and linguistic skills that develop over time. However, pedagogical materials for low-proficiency English as an additional language (EAL) learners tend to target low-level literacy skills only, such as responding to fact-based questions. Materials…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning
Lemak, Alina; Valeo, Antonella – TESL Canada Journal, 2020
Corrective feedback (CF) is an important part of effective instruction, and a rich body of research has investigated how best to implement various CF strategies and approaches. Researchers have increasingly become aware of individual differences that have an impact on the effect and effectiveness of CF. One area of individual difference that has…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Error Correction, Class Activities
Light, Justine; Ranta, Leila – TESL Canada Journal, 2016
Teachers using a task-based language teaching (TBLT) approach are always searching for learning tasks that have the potential to prepare learners for the real world. In this article, we describe how an authentic academic assignment for graduate students in a teaching English as a second language (TESL) course was transformed into a task-based…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
O'Connell, Stephen P. – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
One possible hurdle to implementing the Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach is uncertainty about how to turn target tasks into materials that can be used in the classroom. This article discusses the steps taken to create materials for one target task (communicating with a police officer during a traffic stop) in a manner that provides a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Task Analysis, Police, Instructional Materials
Soruç, Adem; Qin, Jingjing; Kim, YouJin – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
This article reports on a study that investigated whether processing instruction(PI) or production-based instruction (PBI) is more effective for the teaching of regular past simple verb forms in English. In addition, this study examined whether explicit grammatical information (EI) mediates the effectiveness of PI or PBI. A total of 194 Turkish…
Descriptors: Grammar, Experimental Groups, Teaching Methods, Control Groups
Robertson, Margaret – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has become increasingly recognized as an effective pedagogy, but its location in generalized sociocultural theories of learning has led to misunderstandings and criticism. The purpose of this article is to explain the congruence between TBLT and Expansive Learning Theory and the benefits of doing so. The merit…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
McGuire, Michael; Larson-Hall, Jenifer – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
Formulaic sequences (FS) are frequently used by native speakers and have been found to help non-native speakers sound more fluent as well. We hypothesized that explicitly teaching FS to classroom ESL learners would increase the use of such language, which could further result in increased second language (L2) fluency. We report on a 5-week study…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sample, Evelyn; Michel, Marije – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
Studying task repetition for adult and young foreign language learners of English (EFL) has received growing interest in recent literature within the task-based approach (Bygate, 2009; Hawkes, 2012; Mackey, Kanganas, & Oliver, 2007; Pinter, 2007b). Earlier work suggests that second language (L2) learners benefit from repeating the same or a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Task Analysis, Accuracy
Lenchuk, Iryna – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
The purpose of this article is to analyze a task included in the LINC Home Study (LHS) program. LHS is a federally funded distance education program offered to newcomers to Canada who are unable to attend regular LINC classes. A task, in which a language structure (a gerund) is chosen and analyzed, was selected from one instructional module of LHS…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction
Collins, Laura; White, Joanna – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
This article reports on a study examining the language practice opportunities that occurred during a range of paired and small group interactive tasks in an intensive English as a Second Language (ESL) class of francophone Grade 6 students. The analysis focussed on the opportunities the tasks provided for the use of two complex and challenging…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Grade 6
Douglas, Scott Roy; Kim, Marcia – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs designed to meet postsecondary English language proficiency requirements are a common pathway to higher education for students from non-English-speaking backgrounds. Grounded in a Canadian context, this study seeks to examine the prevalence of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in EAP, common examples…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Park, Moonyoung; Slater, Tammy – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
In response to the research priorities of members of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), this study investigated language learners' realworld tasks in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) to inform the future development of pedagogic tasks for academic English as a second language (ESL) courses. The data included…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Ishihara, Noriko – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
There has been an upsurge of interest in teaching second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics in recent years, but much of this effort has been targeted at adult learners. This article introduces small-scale informal instruction exploring the pragmatic development of 9-year-olds in Tokyo, facilitated through dialogic intervention on pragmatics using…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Plews, John L.; Zhao, Kangxian – TESL Canada Journal, 2010
Research on implementing task-based language-teaching (TBLT) shows that adapting TBLT in ways that are inconsistent with its principles is common among nonnative-speaker English-as-a-foreign-language teachers. Our study of Canadian native-speaker English-as-a-second language teachers reveals how they also adapt TBLT in ways that are incongruent…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction
McLean, Terrence – TESL Canada Journal, 2004
In order to give language learners a fighting chance outside the classroom, teachers must provide them with consciousness-raising opportunities for developing pragmatic awareness. By attending to pragmatic factors in second-language (L2) situations, student will be better able to make informed choices in negotiating effective communication. This…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Consciousness Raising