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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Craig, Martin; Porter, Curt – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
South Korean English language teaching (ELT) has typically been represented as an arena dominated by excessive competition, test preparation, and the mastery of linguistic forms (Choi & Park, 2013; Park, 2009). These notions have been compounded by stereotypical depictions of Korean students as passive learners incapable of critical thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Li-Yi; Lin, Tzu-Bin – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Teachers' professional identity influences the way they think and teach. For pre-service non-native English speaking teachers (NNESTs), they are at the crucial stage of constructing self-image and self-perception as English language teaching (ELT) professionals, their beliefs about English teaching and learning and their attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lee, Jang Ho; Kim, Heyoung – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
The present study aims to sketch the contours of new media ecology for Korean university students as well as to examine how these learners shape and negotiate their digital identity by using social networking services and digital devices. It also investigates their use of digital media for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In total,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Technology Uses in Education
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Slocum, Audra – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
This paper discusses the social positioning work three Appalachian adolescents engaged in during two literacy events drawn from a year-long critical teacher-researcher ethnographic study in a twelfth-grade English class in a rural Appalachian high school. Data analysis indicates that in these literacy events, the focal students positioned…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Rural Areas, Ethnography, Grade 12
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Kurt, Mustafa; Kurt, Sevinc – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This paper discusses a study conducted in the Ledra/Lokmaci Milieu in Cyprus, the area in the centre of the divided walled city of Nicosia where Greek and Turkish Cypriots have to use English to communicate with one another. The aim of the study was to locate the effects of a learning space on language learners, teachers and syllabus designers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Environment
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Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. Mahmoud – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
Since any standards-based reform is made to bring about an improvement in students' learning, it requires changes in teachers' practices as well. This study examined how a standards-based communicative curricular reform in general secondary school English in Egypt has changed teachers' classroom practices, and the factors influencing such…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Language Skills