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Mauludin, Lutfi Ashar – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2021
Numerous studies have examined the significance of motivation in learning English as a Foreign Language. However, only a few studies have focused on English for Specific Purposes settings. The current study examined the students' perception of motivating teaching strategies in ESP classrooms. One hundred and sixty-three ESP students from a public…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pileh Roud, Leila Fekri; Hidri, Sahbi – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The current study addressed the impact of computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) on the TOEFL "i"BT listening comprehension test administered to Iranian EFL learners (n = 185) who took part in preparation courses on the TOEFL exam in some language centres in Iran. To mediate the test-takers with hints to process the listening questions,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Bal, Samet – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2021
Writing is especially considered to be a difficult language skill to master for beginner learners. However, this century offers innovations in language education through Information and Communication Technology tools. For instance, blogging platforms like Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress can be employed in writing classes. At this point, the present…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
Schmidgall, Jonathan – Educational Testing Service, 2021
The redesigned "TOEIC Bridge"® tests are designed to measure the reading, listening, speaking, and writing proficiency of beginning to low-intermediate English learners in the context of everyday adult life. This report describes the comprehensive and multifaceted process used to enhance the meaningfulness of TOEIC Bridge test score…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Hopkins, Kelsey P.; Bédi, Branislav – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This article presents two studies performed on 14 immigrant families with children aged one to 16; 12 families in Iceland and two Icelandic families living abroad. Lack of exposure and availability of online materials for learning Icelandic as an L2 may affect what skills children can practise at home. This study represents 32 children aged one to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Instructional Materials
Rolfe, Heather; Stevenson, Alex – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
This report looks at the future for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learning in the content of new immigration policies, the recovery from coronavirus, and Adult Education Budget devolution. Drawing on desk research and stakeholder interviews in the West Midlands region, the report considers key questions for the sector and policy…
Descriptors: Migration, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Education Law Center, 2021
Students have the right to be screened and identified for English Learner (EL) status during remote learning. Even if schools are operating by remote instruction, students, between the ages of 3 and 20, have the right to be screened and to be identified as an EL within 30 days of enrollment. This short fact sheet describes some of the basic rights…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Limited English Speaking, Parent Background, COVID-19
Marcia McBurney Stutzman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study of a high school world language (WL) classroom with flexible language boundaries (Cummins, 2012; Creese & Blackledge, 2010; Garcia & Li Wei, 2014; Turnbull & Daily-O'Cain, 2009) examines how proficient L1 readers constructed meaning from authentic L2 text as emerging bilinguals. Grounded in sociocognitive…
Descriptors: High School Students, Language Proficiency, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Panagiotis Arvanitis; Penelope Krystalli – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2021
Throughout the decade of 2010-2020, the widespread use of mobile devices of any type (smartphones, tablets) has encouraged and strengthened their use in different learning processes and in different ways. Latest improvements in devices' processing power, in storage capacity, in memory allocation, in wireless connectivity, in GPS and in Bluetooth…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Telecommunications
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Masaki Akase – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a vocabulary size test is a valid and reliable measure of longitudinal growth in vocabulary size (VS), and to investigate the relationship between growth in VS and use of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS). Kasahara's (2006) revised version of Mochizuki's (1998) Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
RMC Research Corporation, 2021
The number of English learners (ELs) in Alabama has increased significantly in recent years. English learners include U.S.-born children whose first language is not English, newcomers to the U.S., and other students developing English proficiency. These children are in Alabama schools, acquiring academic English instruction that promotes mastery…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Hansun Zhang Waring – Educational Linguistics, 2021
To a large extent, the quality of classroom communication hinges on the teacher's ability to tune in and respond to emerging students' voices, which requires the astuteness and agility to hear layered messages, offer tailored assistance, and follow students' leads. It requires responding to multiple contingencies in real time. One important…
Descriptors: Dialects, Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Transcripts (Written Records)
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Caterina Sugrañes – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter discusses how a Dominant Language Constellation approach to teaching and learning languages can be highly beneficial in diverse learning contexts in which languages that are brought to school by pupils coexist with curricula languages. A Dominant Language Constellation approach to teaching and learning languages is described in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students, Language Usage
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Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.e., willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom) in learning English as a foreign language in the virtual world Second Life. The theoretical part provides an overview of selected issues related to the four ID factors in question…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation
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Christopher Nicklin – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
In this study, an instrument for measuring proper name (PN) familiarity was developed for a psycholinguistic experiment investigating the effect of PNs on Japanese university students' English reading fluency. Familiarity has previously been operationalized in disparate ways, producing contradictory results. Furthermore, authors of previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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