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Grant, Lynn E.; Nguyen, Thi Hang – Language Awareness, 2017
This study examines the under-explored phenomenon in Vietnamese tertiary settings of code-switching practised by EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers in classroom instruction, as well as their awareness of this practice. Among the foreign languages taught and learned in Vietnamese universities, English is the most popular. The research…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Vietnamese People, Bilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Cajkler, Wasyl; Hall, Bernadette – Language Awareness, 2012
This study explored the language capability of two groups of new teachers in a multilingual city: the first in their initial teacher education year, and the second near the end of their induction year. Almost all teachers in the city face the challenge of teaching English as an additional language in classrooms characterised by super-diversity and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Teacher Education, Beginning Teachers
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LaFond, Larry; Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran – Language Awareness, 2009
This paper reports on a study of 61 students and alumni of graduate programmes that specialise in training English language teachers. The goal was to examine the views of these students and alumni regarding the importance and/or relevance of linguistic theory for their pedagogical practice and to determine whether differences in perceptions were…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Theory Practice Relationship, Alumni, Teaching Experience
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Farr, Fiona – Language Awareness, 2008
A recent practice in the study of language on teacher education programmes has been the use of electronic corpora, and we are therefore still at the initial stages of exploring key issues relating to their integration. Despite arguments for and against their adaptation, there is a dearth of evaluative research examining student teachers'…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Hyde, Martin – Language Awareness, 1994
Discusses the need for a systematic approach to phonology in language teacher training, outlining the deficiencies in the current "atomistic" approach to phonology in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) instruction and suggesting that a holistic approach will provide teachers with a better understanding of the sound systems of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Holistic Approach, Language Attitudes, Language Teachers
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Pohl, Jens-Uwe – Language Awareness, 1994
Discusses one teacher educator's difficulties in familiarizing Hungarian trainee teachers of English as a Second Language with tasks aimed at raising their awareness of English as a system and as a language in use. Inquiry-based language activities can pose a formidable challenge to non-native teachers' expectations and beliefs about language. (23…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries