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Özge Güney – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Based on queer critical literacies framework, this study describes an intervention that aimed to help preservice teachers identify and deconstruct heteronormative discourse in Turkish social and educational contexts. Through a local documentary that narrates the experiences of a Turkish transgender individual, preservice teachers critique the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, LGBTQ People, Preservice Teachers, Cultural Context
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Anja Riemenschneider; Zarah Weiss; Pauline Schröter; Detmar Meurers – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
The linguistic characteristics of text productions depend on various factors, including individual language proficiency as well as the tasks used to elicit the production. To date, little attention has been paid to whether some writing tasks are more suitable than others to represent and differentiate students' proficiency levels. This issue is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Language Proficiency
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Yue Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
English medium instruction (EMI) can become pantomime in the context of higher education, and such non-participation can be shaped and explained by learners' refusing to invest in the English learning practices while performing their learner/speaker/user identities. Taking a Bourdieusian stance on this issue, the study discusses techno-reflective…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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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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Lindahl, Kristen; Fallas-Escobar, Christian; Henderson, Kathryn I. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
This qualitative study explored Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) for linguistically diverse Latinx preservice Teacher Candidates (TCs) at a tertiary institution in the southwest region of the United States. To provide an example of preparing TCs to engage in LRI by helping them reflect upon ideological orientations, we operationalized…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Teaching Methods, Hispanic American Students
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Chang, Sin-Yi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
The promotion of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has been a widely adopted institutional response to the forces of globalization in the 21st century. However, while EMI has received much enthusiasm in policy discourse, little research has been conducted to explore whether it effectively addresses the new demands of an…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English, Affordances, Higher Education
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Fadil, Virginia Ann – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
A pilot course in mastery learning in a survey course in English literature at the Beirut University College is described. The course was designed to increase the retention of knowledge and skills of students of another culture, utilizing the lecture-discussion method and the mastery learning concepts. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), English Literature
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Eslava, Roslyn; Lawson, Peter O. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article describes a course designed to develop oral skills in English as a second language. A video-taped movie is shown without its sound track; the students then analyze, discuss, and ultimately dub in the film in the target language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
Reports on the progress being made in an attempt to establish a second language acquisition index of development that would gauge a learner's second language proficiency. A project was undertaken involving the analysis of 212 compositions written by university students of English as a second language. (CFM)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Criteria
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Fox, James – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This paper traces the development of a function-based module, TELEFUN, produced to teach telephone English to Francophone public servants in Canada. Telephone discourse is analyzed, and a number of techniques, including Function Frames and Function Dials, are described. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Discourse Analysis
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Selinker, Larry; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This paper describes two methods of EST (English for Science and Technology) paragraph development: rhetorical process development and rhetorical function-shift development. A series of hypotheses set up to account for explicit and implicit information in some EST function-shift paragraphs that students have had difficulty learning to understand…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Language Instruction
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Weissberg, Robert; Buker, Suzanne – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This article describes teaching strategies employed in a technical writing course for Latin American students at New Mexico State University. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Foreign Students
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Moran, Ross T. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
It would be beneficial for ESL instructors to know the U.S. grade equivalent English ability of their students for placement purposes, especially if their instructional materials are keyed for U.S. classrooms. For this purpose, the Stanford Intermediate Level I Reading Comprehension Test was compared with the CELT-Structure Test. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grade Equivalent Scores, Group Norms, Higher Education
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Lezberg, Amy; Hilferty, Ann – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This paper describes two specific applications of discourse analysis in English as a second language classes. At the advanced level it provides the tools for students as they interpret contemporary fiction. At the intermediate level, it provides tools for the teacher to establish bases for clarity of communication with students. (SW)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Instruction
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Nattinger, James R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This paper discusses why different classroom techniques are needed in composition classes for teaching English to foreign speakers and to non-standard English speakers. Current pedagogical methods for teaching and testing composition for the two kinds of speakers are reviewed. Sentence combining, discourse analysis, and cloze testing are…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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