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Toni Dobinson; Stephanie Dryden; Sender Dovchin; Qian Gong; Paul Mercieca – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Translanguaging literature has broadly discussed translanguaging as fostering expressive and creative interactions within classroom contexts. Often overlooked, however, are the responses of students who are encouraged to translanguage in spaces they previously deemed to be reserved for the dominant language only. Using Linguistic Ethno-graphy, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
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Hsieh, Jasper Kun-Ting; Gao, Xuesong; Bell, Shaun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
This paper draws on an ethnographic research that examined Taiwanese international students' identity movements before, during, and after their overseas education in Australia. Previous studies on nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) studying TESOL in the West focused on the formation of their professional identity before and after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, English (Second Language)
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Dovchin, Sender – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Drawing on the translanguaging practices of Mongolian background English as a Second Language (ESL) immigrant women in Australia, this paper points out two main theoretical points: (1) when translanguaging moves beyond the classroom, it may provide ESL immigrants with an emotionally and linguistically safe space where they feel comfortable in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Emotional Response, Security (Psychology), Mental Health
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Turner, Marianne; Windle, Joel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This article explores the kinds of teacher knowledge promoted in TESOL-related curriculum standards in five jurisdictions (Australia and England at the national level, New York City and New York State in the United States, and Ontario, Canada, at the subnational level). Such documents are increasingly important in defining, and potentially…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English Teachers
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Kashiwa, Mayumi; Benson, Phil – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
Adopting an ecological perspective on context in second language learning, this study investigated the ways in which a group of Chinese students reconceptualized and reconstructed their learning environments in the first 3 months of study abroad in Australia. Focusing on the students' conceptions of the relationship between in-class and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Asians
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Mochizuki, Naoko – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
Needs analysis (NA) plays a significant role in developing tasks that create opportunities for natural language use in classrooms. Preemptive NA, however, does not necessarily predict the contingently emerging interpersonal and social variables which influence learners and teachers' behaviours. These unpredictable variables often lead to a gap…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Collaborative Writing, Learning Activities, Language Usage
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Humphrey, Sally; Macnaught, Lucy – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
In this article the authors report on the use of a scaffolding pedagogy (Gibbons, 2009), informed by systemic functional linguistics, to support the writing of English language learners in middle years curriculum learning. They focus on the work of one teacher and her English class across the first 18 months of a longitudinal design-based literacy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hammond, Jennifer – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This article presents an Australian perspective on the issue of standards-based education and the place of students of English as an additional language (EAL) who are working within mainstream schools. Beginning with an overview of the various standards documents that impact the lives of teachers and their students in mainstream Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Academic Standards, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Gale, Kathy; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1981
Reports on a study of the bilingual program in the Milingimbi community in Australia. For four years, children from both English-only and bilingual classes were tested for achievement in academic subjects. By the seventh year, children in the bilingual classes were performing better than the English-only children. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
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Moore, Helen – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Explores the background of Australia's shift from its National Policy on Languages (NPL) to the Australian Language and Literacy Policy (ALLP). Findings are that the ALLP's virtual reality serves the ideologies of a power elite; and the NPL's understandings are necessary to avoid the consequences of alienation and racism. (50 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Context Effect, English (Second Language), English Instruction
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Wong, Shelley D.; Lo Bianco, Joseph – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Presents the viewpoints of two teacher educators--one American and one Australian--on how institutional policies can address the needs of language minority students. One viewpoint stresses the need for teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) to organize and support each other. The other emphasizes the value of constructing an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Language Planning
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Burns, Anne – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Examines the focus of current English language programs for immigrants to Australia. It is noted that the most sweeping policy and curriculum changes were those emerging in the early 1990s and that a major element, in addition to a changed funding base and focus on migration settlement only, was the introduction of accredited competency-based…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Change Strategies, Competency Based Education
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Hyon, Sunny – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Overviews work in genre theory and its application to first and second language instruction and differentiates three traditions in genre theory: English for specific purposes, North American New Rhetoric studies, and Australian systemic functional linguistics. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of genre theory for English…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Applied Linguistics, Context Effect, Educational Objectives
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Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Describes the National Curriculum Project, an effort in curriculum renewal set up within the Australian Adult Migrant Education Program. The rationale for and the effectiveness of a collaborative approach between teachers and curriculum specialists in school-based English-as-a-Second-Language curriculum development are discussed. Project…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language)
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Burton, Jill – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Discusses teachers' involvement in research on teaching, examining Australian research and professional development on Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL). An evaluation framework to facilitate cross-case and cross-context analysis of such research is proposed, recommending that TESOL researchers first characterize TESOL professional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
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