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Yucedag, Zeynep; Karakas, Ali – Online Submission, 2019
This study aims to discover the perceptions of high school language division students towards English as a lingua franca in a Turkish province. For this purpose, a descriptive survey method was chosen via using a questionnaire consisting of 13 questions. The responses were rated on a 4-point Likert scale. The data were gathered from 85 students of…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Watson, Annabel Mary – Language Awareness, 2015
This paper reports on an investigation of L1 English teachers' conceptual and evaluative beliefs about teaching grammar, one strand of a larger Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded investigation into the impact of contextualised grammar teaching [RES-062-23-0775]. Thirty-one teachers in English secondary schools were interviewed…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Instruction, Native Language, Grammar
Krajka, Jaroslaw – JALT CALL Journal, 2021
Technology has been called to the rescue on a number of occasions, be it in large classes, under-resourced contexts, after earthquakes or other natural disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic which struck the whole world in Spring 2020 afterwards necessitated a sudden shift from face-to-face to distance teaching. With no preparation, no training and very…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gillard, Derek – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article outlines the Labour Party's attitude to selective secondary education from the creation of the party in 1900 to the present day. It notes early calls for comprehensive schools; seeks to explain why the post-war Attlee government was so committed to the tripartite system of secondary schools; recounts the failure of the Wilson…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes, Secondary Education
Lialikhova, Dina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Widely implemented in Europe over the last three decades, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been researched in some European contexts more extensively than in others, with the Norwegian context being among the least represented. This paper attempts to contribute to filling in the gap by examining the impact of a short-term CLIL…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Takahashi, Noboru; Isaka, Yukio; Yamamoto, Toshikazu; Nakamura, Tomoyasu – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2017
The present study investigated the development of literacy skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children in Japan. The three components of literacy, vocabulary, orthographic knowledge, and grammatical knowledge were assessed by using the subtests of the Adaptive Tests for Language Abilities (ATLAN), based on the item response theory developed…
Descriptors: Literacy, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Foreign Countries
Maja Feddermann; Jürgen Baumert; Jens Möller – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The effects of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on students' foreign language skill development have been overestimated by previous studies, as most studies needed to have considered selection and preparation effects appropriately. We used complete survey data from a 1996-2003 cohort to investigate English skill development of N =…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Beauchamp, David; Constantinou, Filio – Research Matters, 2020
Assessment is a useful process as it provides various stakeholders (e.g., teachers, parents, government, employers) with information about students' competence in a particular subject area. However, for the information generated by assessment to be useful, it needs to support valid inferences. One factor that can undermine the validity of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Inferences, Validity, Language Usage
Clark, Tony; Endres, Heidi – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
An effective diagnostic test can play a key role in language learning, allowing strengths and weaknesses in students' linguistic development to be identified and addressed. This paper describes the online Cambridge English diagnostic test, assessing English grammatical knowledge at A2 level. As most language tests focus on proficiency or…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, High School Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Grammar
Soylu Bastug, Dilek; Broutin, Jonathan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
In modern methods, in line with the social constructivist and action-oriented approaches, knowledge should be (co-) constructed by the learner in interaction with his or her learning environment which has been established by the teacher prior to the session. A social constructivist approach can be described as learning-centered. This approach…
Descriptors: Grammar, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nair, Subadrah Madhawa; Hui, Liang Lok – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2018
The first objective of this study is to identify the types of errors made by students in their ESL writing. The second objective is to compare the types of errors (overall, spelling, mechanics, grammar, coherence, sentence structure and lexical) in descriptive writing, according to gender. The third objective is to explore an ESL teacher?s views…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spelling
Fei V. Lim; Weimin Toh – Teaching English with Technology, 2024
This article reports on a systematic review of research studies published from 2010 to 2021 on the use of apps for learning in the secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. We extracted relevant information such as the studies' country/region, research design, sample size, students' age, apps' names to conduct a thematic analysis to…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs
Hua, Congchao; Li, Bin – Cogent Education, 2015
Popular culture materials are generally believed to have positive effects on L2 learning. This study examined the effectiveness of popular culture materials in enhancing Hong Kong EFL students' grammar learning. In a quasi-experimental design, 20 secondary school students were taught grammar in two ways: with the use of popular culture materials,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Secondary Education, Grammar
Brown, Anna; Fong, Sarah – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
Despite profound influence of selection-by-ability on children's educational opportunities, empirical evidence for the validity of 11-plus tests is scarce. This study focused on secondary selection in Kent, the largest grammar school area in England. We analysed scores from the 'Kent Test' (the 11-plus test used in Kent), Cognitive Assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Scores
Aka, Natsuki – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
The present study investigates the effects of extensive reading on developing the language knowledge and reading abilities of high school learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) over the course of one school year. Participants were divided into control (n = 205) and experimental groups (n = 200), with the former receiving regular grammar…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction