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Ruiguo Cui; Peter Teo – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Dialogic instruction, a form of instruction that engages students in meaningful and substantive classroom dialogue, has been shown to benefit students in many ways. However, few studies on dialogic instruction have focused on the role and agency of classroom teachers as they navigate and negotiate the vagaries of classroom talk, especially in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Pia Sundqvist; M. Sercan Uztosun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This article comprises two international studies. Study 1 aimed to develop a scale to measure the frequency of learners' voluntary, informal, out-of-school engagement with English, so-called Extramural English (EE) activities. It involved three stages -- pilot study, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis -- followed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Informal Education
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Jiajing Li; Chuang Wang; Yao Zhao; Yijie Li – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Self-efficacy is theorized as a malleable construct that can be influenced by teachers' instructions; however, limited effort has been devoted to evaluating the effectiveness of self-efficacy interventions. This study leverages a mixed methods design to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-efficacy intervention over 16 weeks among Chinese English…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Intervention
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Kailun Wang; Rui Yuan; Icy Lee – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
The existing literature in TESOL has revealed the multilayered, dynamic, and situated nature of teacher identity, but how language teachers construct their identities during curriculum reforms receives relatively limited attention, particularly in the context of teaching English for specific purposes (ESP). Theoretically anchored by the notion of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Zhenjie Weng; Francis John Troyan; Loretta Fernández; Mark McGuire – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This article reports on an ethnographic case study of the professional identity development of Mark--an English language teacher who identified as cisgender, gay, Catholic, white, and not wealthy. Using the lenses of intersectionality (e.g., Crenshaw, 1989, 1991) and "perezhivanie" (Vygotsky, 1999)--"the emotional and visceral…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Intersectionality, Ethnography
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Yanhong Zuo; Fangzhi He – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Digital multimodal composing (DMC) has been receiving increasing attention in the research on English as an additional language (EAL) instruction in higher education. While this approach responds to students' changing writing practices in the digital world, it can create tension with mandated curricula and high-stakes testing regimes that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Higher Education
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Xixin Qiu – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
The use of academic corpora in second language (L2) writing pedagogy has gained popularity in recent decades, particularly in genre-specific contexts for graduate-level L2 students (Charles, 2007; Lee & Swales, 2006). However, its overall effectiveness is mainly observed within classroom contexts, influenced by various contextual and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Graduate Students
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Cheng, Junyu; Matthews, Joshua; Lange, Kriss; McLean, Stuart – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This study quantifies second language (L2) knowledge of aural single words and aural phrasal verbs (PVs) and investigates their relationship with L2 listening comprehension. An aural first language (L1) meaning recall test format was used to measure knowledge of 81 single-word and 81 PV target items (with equivalent frequencies of occurrence)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Aural Learning, Verbs
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Wong, Man Ho Ivy – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Informed by two usage-based approaches, this study investigated to what extent different types of computer-based training facilitated English preposition learning among intermediate Chinese learners of English. The design of the pedagogical materials was informed by the cognitive linguistics (CL) framework while the training format was motivated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Concept Formation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Shi, Lijuan; Rolstad, Kellie – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Guided by translanguaging pedagogy, this study examines how monolingual English teachers in a Pre-K school in China navigate between English and Chinese to construct a translanguaging classroom. Findings based on classroom observations and interviews reveal that, despite being constrained by their monolingualism, the English teachers enacted…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Monolingualism, Teacher Characteristics, Code Switching (Language)
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Wang, Min; Dovchin, Sender – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This article seeks to understand a Chinese international student's (Hong's) encounters with linguistic racism as symbolic violence as well as why and how he resisted different forms of linguistic racism in different situations. Data findings suggest that linguistic racism as symbolic violence takes different forms through both verbal and nonverbal…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Racism, Language Usage, Verbal Communication
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Hall, Christopher J.; Gruber, Alice; Qian, Yuan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
A major challenge for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) professionals is how to address the learning needs of diverse learners for whom a monolithic, native-normed version of English is no longer always useful or appropriate. Research in Global Englishes (GE) has noted many teachers' resistance to the adoption of a more…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Liddicoat, Anthony J.; Murray, Neil; Zhen, Fengchao; Mosavian, Penny – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
This study aims to investigate how time is coordinated with the professional space of the universities in western China. It examines how the situatedness of English language teachers in institutional spaces influences their understandings of and the value attributed to time and how these impact on how they make changes to their practice following…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zhang-Wu, Qianqian; Brisk, Maria Estela – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Although being able to meet the TOEFL requirement for college admission, Chinese international students often encounter linguistic challenges during their initial college experiences. Understanding such challenges set the foundation for implementing Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) in higher education. Although well studied in K-12…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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Yuan, Rui; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
Despite a surge of research interest in teacher identity in both TESOL and general education, there is a lack of attention to the role of metacognition in language teachers' identity (re)construction. Informed by the integrated framework of metacognitions comprising metacognitive knowledge, strategies, and experiences, this article reports on four…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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