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Tendai Charles, Editor; Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, Editor – English Language Education, 2024
This edited volume provides a comprehensive and detailed insight into the Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESOL) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It describes a variety of challenges that native speakers of Arabic face when learning the English language and presents contemporary teaching strategies for supporting them. The book…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Derenowski, Marek – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book examines the unique characteristics of teaching foreign languages to senior learners. It discusses the potential age-related barriers and learning difficulties which may be encountered in senior foreign language education as well as solutions to overcome these challenges. The author describes the processes of human aging from different…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Older Adults, Adult Education, Barriers
Yan Lu – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2025
Under the background of educational informatization, data-driven teaching decision-making has become a key means to improve the quality of education, but there are some shortcomings in the use of data in college English teaching decision-making. This study constructs an evaluation system of college English teaching decision-making ability,…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement
Lyngsnes, Kitt Margaret; Skjelvåg, Siv Kristin – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty. A The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of young people with dyslexia in secondary school in a Norwegian context and provide insight that might be used to support the students. The research question for the study is as follows: What experiences do dyslectic students have in secondary…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Secondary School Students, Coping, Foreign Countries
Chernus, Natalya; Sivkov, Andrey; Savina, Tamira; Sivkov, Sergey; Zolotovitskaya, Alexandra – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The eclectic method allows teachers and students to easily adapt to learning needs so that learning goals or objectives can be achieved. The purpose of this article was to prove the positive impact of using the eclectic method on students' foreign language learning by comparing it to the traditional approach to teaching. This study proposed to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
English spelling has always been described by many language researchers and teachers as a daunting task especially for learners whose first language is not English. This monograph presents the report of an investigation on the use of spelling, which includes the determining factor of grammar in the teaching of English, in it we will develop a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ho Pham Xuan Phuong – Online Submission, 2024
In the realm of AI-driven education, it is pivotal to evaluate the viability of ChatGPT as a substitute for human teachers in English classrooms. This study aims to explore learners' behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes to ChatGPT usage in English language learning. Participants were 120 I.T. students in Vietnam -- the Korea University of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
David, Rosa Dene; Anderson, Carl Edlund – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2022
This paper proposes the design of an instructional model, referred to as the universal genre sphere, for teaching academic writing in a manner appropriate to all learners, but developed especially with consideration for the needs of English as additional language students with or without diagnosed learning differences. Despite growing research on,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Design
Tribushinina, Elena; Berg, Zoë op ten; Karman, Sonja – Language Awareness, 2022
There is growing evidence that dyslexia may involve difficulty with implicit learning, which may hinder learners with dyslexia to acquire spelling skills in a foreign language through implicit instruction. Paradoxically, this is exactly how Dutch students with dyslexia learn English spelling at school. This research aims to determine if…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro; Cepeda, Cesarina – Online Submission, 2020
In this investigation the reader is expected to see our singular approach on the topic selected, that is to say, how we personally feel and learned on the phenomena under our scrutiny: Distractors as a handicap for English foreign language learning in the middle level of our educational public system, we as in-service EFL teachers and professors,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Courtney D. Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to identify in-service general and special educators', counselors', and English as a Second Language educators' perceptions of the cause of academic difficulties for students who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was used to initially collect quantitative…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Cultural Differences
Hakim, Badia Muntazer – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Classroom anxiety is a recurrent phenomenon for language learners. There are various factors that cause language anxiety, the most common of which include learners' excessive self-consciousness and self-awareness concerning their oral reproduction and performance and their peculiar, and quite often misplaced and mistaken, views and beliefs…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Social Status, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arslanbay, Goshnag; Ersanli, Ceylan Yangin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
Data-Driven Learning (DDL) is a method for learning languages that involves analyzing language usage trends and finding patterns in language data, utilizing technology and statistics. One of the key benefits of DDL is that it allows students to focus on the most relevant and useful language data for their needs. Data-driven learning is an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ghaith, Ghazi – TESL-EJ, 2019
This study investigates the interrelatedness the English as a foreign language demotivation factors of learning difficulties, threats to self-worth, monotonous teaching, poor student-teacher relationships, and learners' proficiency in critical reading and writing. Eighty (n =80) EFL learners participated in the study. The rationale for the study…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alenizi, Mogbel Aid K. – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This study assesses pre-university teachers' perception about reading comprehension in English as a foreign language (EFL) in Saudi context. It also identifies the difficulties faced by the students in their reading comprehension classes to have a holistic view of learning process. The main aim of the study is to explore the issues related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)

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