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East, Martin – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The communicative language teaching approach that informs many school modern foreign language programmes has been realised in different ways as theorists and practitioners have sought to identify the most effective combinations of instruction and use [Mitchell, R. 2000. Applied linguistics and evidence-based classroom practice: the case of foreign…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs, Foreign Countries
East, Martin – Language Teaching, 2021
East (2014) presented a largely qualitative study that uncovered how beginning teachers of languages other than English developed their understandings about task-based language teaching (TBLT) as they took part in a year-long initial teacher education programme in New Zealand. This paper reports a comparative re-production. It complements a recent…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Basturkmen, Helen; East, Martin; Bitchener, John – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
Supervising masters and doctoral dissertations is a key function of teaching in higher education and giving written feedback on draft sections is an essential component of this function. However, the specific types of response that supervisors give to their dissertation students' written work have received limited research interest to date. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Supervisors, Masters Theses
East, Martin – Language Learning Journal, 2014
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an innovative learner-centred and experiential approach to modern foreign language (MFL) teaching and learning that is not without controversy in the secondary MFL classroom. This article considers one secondary-level initial teacher education programme in New Zealand in which, following school curriculum…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Secondary School Teachers
Biebricher, Christine; East, Martin; Howard, Jocelyn; Tolosa, Constanza – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Intercultural capability, or the ability to relate comfortably with people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, is increasingly recognised as a key twenty-first century competency. The importance of its development in the context of learning a language has long been acknowledged in the literature. However, practitioners worldwide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Cultural Awareness, Consciousness Raising
East, Martin – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2017
The learner-centred and experiential pedagogical approach encouraged by the revised "New Zealand Curriculum" can be problematic for teachers who are used to delivering courses in teacher-fronted ways. Using the Learning Languages learning area as the context, this article presents the case of one New Zealand teacher who completed an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Centered Learning
Howard, Jocelyn; Tolosa, Constanza; Biebricher, Christine; East, Martin – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
Developing students' intercultural capability is now an expectation within language programmes in New Zealand schools. This is a challenge, particularly as intercultural capability is still a new concept for many teachers. Drawing on data from a two-year project, this paper foregrounds student voices to reveal how beginner learners experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
East, Martin; Tolosa, Constanza; Biebricher, Christine; Howard, Jocelyn; Scott, Adèle – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate how five Year 7/8 teachers of additional languages in four primary/intermediate schools in New Zealand supported their students to develop their intercultural capability in the context of learning a language additional to the language of instruction. The teachers taught a range of languages (Chinese,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
East, Martin; King, Chris – CALICO Journal, 2012
In the listening component of the IELTS examination candidates hear the input once, delivered at "normal" speed. This format for listening can be problematic for test takers who often perceive normal speed input to be too fast for effective comprehension. The study reported here investigated whether using computer software to slow down…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Computer Software
East, Martin; Tolosa, Constanza; Villers, Helen – Babel, 2012
As a consequence of a substantially revised national curriculum in New Zealand, all schools are now required to provide opportunities for students in school Years 7 to 10 (age 11+ to 14+) to learn an additional language. There are, however, very few intermediate school (Years 7 and 8) teachers who are additional language 'subject specialists'.…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Foreign Countries
East, Martin; Bitchener, John; Basturkmen, Helen – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2012
Many Western universities are experiencing considerable growth in the numbers of postgraduate research students, both local and international. This increase and diversification bring with them challenges for how to make these students' research studies successful. In particular, what students may wish to receive by way of supervisor-student…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), English, Graduate Students
East, Martin; Scott, Adele – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2011
A revised schoolwide curriculum for New Zealand was implemented in 2010. This new curriculum has placed a new and strong emphasis on foreign language (L2) learning and has precipitated a reevaluation of high-stakes assessment practices to ensure that senior school assessments will be aligned to new curriculum requirements. The reevaluation has led…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
East, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
This paper reports on the effectiveness of a tailored undergraduate course at a tertiary institution in New Zealand constructed to challenge, and encourage changes to, monolingual "English-only" attitudes. The course was designed to provide knowledge and promote understanding of the phenomenon of English as a global language, and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Measures (Individuals), Monolingualism, Foreign Countries