Despite curriculum innovations that aim to teach English through current methodologies and approaches, research in English Language Teaching at primary schools has yet to be thoroughly explored. This study examined the impact of the Ecuadorian national curriculum on teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through the lens of primary school…

This single-case study investigated the effect of the PESTS mnemonic technique on the spelling ability of a 10-year-old fourth grader diagnosed with a reading and writing disorder and disturbance of activity and attention. A multiple baseline design with three word sets and 10 measurement points was applied for the evaluation. The dependent…

The instructional quality of early career teachers is an important area of research that has potential to inform policy and practice. However, earlier research on this topic is primarily concerned with examining the relationship between early career teachers and their instructional quality. This study took a person-centred approach to examining…

Teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) have received extensive research attention due to their important role in teacher professional development and classroom practices. However, research aiming to explain the underpinning mechanisms of how PLCs foster teacher instructional practices is limited. Against this backdrop, this study…

The Adult Literacy for Life (ALL) Strategy was established to reduce the number of adults in Ireland with unmet numeracy needs from 25% to 12% (Government of Ireland, 2023). Studies suggest that learners' negative attitudes towards mathematics may also develop over a sustained period (Prendergast et al., 2020). Adult learners who have had negative…

This comparative study explores the professional development (PD) landscapes of educators in Ireland and Turkey, exploring their respective needs, expectations, challenges and levels of satisfaction with the PD that is available. Employing a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse cohort of teachers in both…

School-based management (SBM) enhances decentralisation and autonomy to improve school leadership and management, but in countries like Vietnam, research on its implementation remains limited. This study investigates SBM practices in Vietnamese primary schools, where current education reforms focus on administrative decentralisation and grant…

Social and Emotional Skills (SES) are key to students' academic and personal development. This study explores the effectiveness of a technology-supported Cooperative Learning (CL) intervention in promoting SES among primary and middle school students in Italy. A quasi-experimental design was used, involving 36 classes randomly assigned to either…

This study expands on the practical application of the critical role of auditory processing in the rate of naturalistic L2 speech acquisition. In Study 1, the prosodic production of English by 46 Chinese college students was tracked over a five-month study abroad program in the UK. Learners with extensive L2 input opportunities demonstrated…

Assessments play a pivotal role in Mathematics education, serving as vital gauges of students' mathematical proficiency and informing teaching strategies. Despite calls for contextualization, some educators still rely on abstract teaching methods and decontextualized tasks. This study aims to address these concerns by designing and implementing a…

This study investigates the occurrence of students' language alternation practices during second language (L2) book talk. The data were collected at a voluntary book club for learning English at a university in Korea. The book club was implemented using Zoom. In this context, using multimodal conversation analysis, I highlight instances in which…

Prosody is considered one of the most challenging aspects of second language (L2) speech acquisition. This study explores the role of working memory (WM) in the perception and production of English nuclear accent (NA) by L1 Spanish learners. It focuses on both default and non-default patterns of NA placement in English. Twenty-four participants…

Purpose: This study aims to look at the motives and dynamics of career choices in the socio-cultural values of the Bugis community. Career choice factors are rarely approached from the aspect of socio-cultural values. One indicator of extrinsic factors is socio-cultural values. Design/methodology/approach: This study is qualitative research. The…

Among the previous studies examining academic emotions and academic achievement in EFL contexts, few studies have been conducted on heterogeneous patterns of pre-exam academic emotions among English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students in high schools. To address this gap, this study aimed to investigate the pre-exam academic emotion profiles and…

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the core competence of Chinese vocational college students' innovation and entrepreneurship leadership. According to the evaluation results, the researchers analyzed the causes of the existing problems, and put forward some suggestions for the reform of the teaching model of innovation and…