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Mengistu, Mulualem Abie; Worku, Mulugeta Yayeh; Melesse, Tadesse – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception and practices of primary school English teachers on the role of lesson study (LS) in improving classroom practices in Bahir Dar City Administration, Ethiopia. To attain the purpose of the study, a mixed methods research approach with an embedded quasi-experimental design was used.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Li, Xuan – Cogent Education, 2022
Delivery of English language programmes to children at younger ages is a remarkable phenomenon around the world. This research adopts a language-in-education framework to examine how kindergartens in China provide English teaching, and to identify what issues have arisen, in the context of the government ban on preschool English. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Preschool Education
Aarsaether, Finn – Cogent Education, 2021
Global migration has led to increasing numbers of children encountering schools as newcomers in their new countries. Statistics reveal that large groups of migrant children tend to perform poorly academically; thus, education for newcomers has become an urgent issue for host countries. The aim of this study is to explore how Norwegian schools…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
Al-Yaseen, Wafaa Salem – Cogent Education, 2021
Globalization has driven the popularity of teaching English as a lingua franca. In Kuwait, expanding the teaching and learning of English to include public kindergarten schools would be an innovative practice, which would bring great expected learning outcomes. First, it would help children achieve more native-like pronunciation. Second, it would…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Kindergarten
García-García, Luis Daniel; Romero-Contreras, Silvia; Silva-Maceda, Gabriela – Cogent Education, 2018
English language teaching (ELT) as a second or foreign language is a worldwide practice for Educational Systems in elementary schools. Educational reforms in Mexico have aimed at addressing English language learning within the elementary schools' curricula, however, there have been shortcomings when implementing the teaching of English as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, English (Second Language)
Bader Alghasab, Maha – Cogent Education, 2017
This study examines the relationship between the functions and patterns of language choice in EFL classrooms in a Kuwaiti primary school. It applies the overall order model, specifically the medium of classroom interaction, to identify three patterns of language choice: an English monolingual medium, an Arabic monolingual medium and a bilingual…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Yuan, Yifeng; Shen, Huizhong – Cogent Education, 2016
This design-based study examines the creation and development of audio-visual Chinese language teaching and learning materials for Australian schools by incorporating users' feedback and content writers' input that emerged in the designing process. Data were collected from workshop feedback of two groups of Chinese-language teachers from primary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Material Development, Foreign Countries
Moloney, Robyn; Xu, HuiLing – Cogent Education, 2015
With the economic rise of China, there is global demand for effective teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). There has been limited sustained success in Chinese language learning in Australian schools, however, and this has been attributed, amongst other factors, to pedagogy employed by teachers. Today, it is commonplace to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies
Chien, Chin-Wen – Cogent Education, 2015
This study analyzed Taiwanese elementary school English teachers' perceptions of, designs on, and knowledge constructed about, differentiated instruction in content in an intensive summer course. Based on the data analysis of surveys, the document, videos, and an interview, the study had the following findings. First, before the intensive summer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)