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Tin, Tan Bee – Language Teaching Research, 2014
English language teaching (ELT) currently occurring in diverse social settings points to the need to locate ELT in its social context. Many researchers have highlighted the need to explore local vernacular practices, in particular ELT practices in peripheral contexts. The present study investigates events in an English language classroom at a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Cross, Jeremy – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This article reports on an exploratory case study of a Japanese learner of English as a foreign language (EFL) who was introduced to metatextual skills and activities for metacognitive instruction as a route towards promoting her autonomous use of the BBC's online "From Our Own Correspondent" podcasts outside of the classroom to enhance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ko, Mei-Yun – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This qualitative case study describes in detail a college teacher's experience in teaching critical literacy to English major students in Taiwan. A qualitative analysis of the data collected from classroom observation, class discussion and interviews shows that the teacher struck a balance between language skills teaching and critical literacy…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Huang, SuHua – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This study employed an ethnographic methodology to explore the use of "literacy bags" (LBs) to promote parental involvement in Chinese children's literacy learning in the English language. It was conducted with a first-grade class consisting of 18 students and their parents in Taiwan. Data resources were obtained from teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language)
Zheng, Chunxian – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This ethnographic study attempts to find, reveal and understand the learning possibilities, from the social learning perspective, in the process of peer feedback activity in a College English classroom for non-English majors in China. The study reveals the nature of Exploratory Practice (EP), and the investigation is guided by EP principles,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Nonmajors, Socialization, Discussion
Ballinger, Susan; Lyster, Roy – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This study examines the Spanish use of students and teachers at a US two-way immersion school. Students and teachers from Grades 1, 3, and 8 (5-6-year-olds, 7-8-years-olds, and 12-13-year-olds, respectively) were observed and interviewed, and students completed questionnaires to determine what factors influenced their language of choice and their…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Oral Language, Language of Instruction, Questionnaires
Tan, May – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents data from a study examining secondary mathematics teachers' and science teachers' implementation of a language of instruction policy in Malaysia, which made English the medium for mathematics and science instruction. It explores the beliefs of math, science and language teachers, and how these beliefs influence their…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
Kong, Stella; Hoare, Philip – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article reports a study of aspects of pedagogy that can bring about students' cognitive engagement with academic content and, thus, use of the academic language in content-based language lessons in three middle schools in Xi'an, China. Two criteria--academic content level and depth of processing--were used to determine cognitive content…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse, Middle Schools, Foreign Countries
Su, Ya-Chen – Language Teaching Research, 2011
Learning about foreign language (FL) cultures is becoming an important objective in the FL curricula and national standards of different countries throughout the world. The purposes of the study were to examine the effects of the cultural portfolio project on (1) students' specific aspects of development of cultural knowledge and change in…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Speech Communication, Observation, National Standards
Li, Li; Walsh, Steve – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents findings from what we believe to be the first large-scale study of its kind on the use of ICT (information and communications technology) in English language classes in China. Participants are 400 EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers from different types of schools in Beijing. The purpose of the study was to examine…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy
Lambert, Craig – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This study triangulates multiple data sources and methods to build a consensus on the English-language tasks faced by graduates in their lives and careers as a practical basis for L2 program development. It addresses a problem similar to what West (1994) refers to as TENOR (Teaching English for No Obvious Reason). TENOR is problematic in that it…
Descriptors: Graduates, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Surveys
Vasquez, Camilla; Harvey, Jane – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This article reports on a case study that examined the evolving thoughts and beliefs about corrective feedback of graduate students in applied linguistics, who were enrolled in a semester-long second language acquisition (SLA) course. Working in groups, the graduate students (students in an MA-TESL program, and doctoral students in a related…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Applied Linguistics, Error Correction
Yang, Luxin – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This study investigated the negotiations and challenges experienced by five Chinese ESL (English as a second language) students of Commerce through their engagement in an academic presentation in a regular content course at a Canadian university. Multiple sources of data were collected, including interviews, class observations, group discussions,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Kiely, Richard; Davis, Matt – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This article explores teacher learning in the UK English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) context. We draw on data from a continuing professional development (CPD) initiative to understand how learning is shaped by collaborative discussion with others and by reading from the language classroom research literature. The CPD programme--designed…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Literature, Faculty Development, English (Second Language)
Peacock, Matthew – Language Teaching Research, 2009
This article presents a new procedure for the evaluation of EFL teacher-training programmes based on principles of programme evaluation and foreign-language-teacher (FLT) education. The procedure focuses on programme strengths and weaknesses and how far the programme meets the needs of students. I tested the procedure through an evaluation of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Teaching, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction