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Mu-Hsuan Chou – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Vocabulary learning strategies have been frequently viewed as a practical tool to facilitate the acquisition of words and enhance comprehension and production in communication. Previous research suggests that vocabulary learning strategies are a multidimensional construct. This study attempts to validate a vocabulary learning strategies…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Di Wang; Yu Huang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This article introduces the use of Internet-mediated joint construction (JC) to engage second language (L2) writers to participate in virtual classroom activities in an online teaching environment. Affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, schools and universities in the People's Republic of China were required to rapidly transit to remote…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Virtual Classrooms
Ronnakrit Rangsarittikun; Richard Watson Todd – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The languaging curriculum involves learning to strategically make use of available tools and resources to successfully do things with English for real-world purposes. In this article, we describe how languaging was implemented in a task where students communicate about a hobby of their choice on Reddit discussion forums. Over three weeks, the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language)
Yuan Gao; Yaqiong Cui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The COVID-19 outbreak has seen the largest-scale emergency remote teaching in world history. Drawing on concepts of teacher belief and teacher agency, this study seeks to explore whether teachers' beliefs about teacher roles may influence their agentive use of online technology amid and after COVID-19. By tracing four English as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Role
Hyun-Ju Kim; Stewart Gray; Christopher Lange – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
As student creativity is increasingly emphasized in English as a Foreign Language education, it is necessary to consider instructional techniques to encourage it. This study examines the effectiveness of two instructional techniques on creative writing performance of English as a Foreign Language students in a South Korean university. These…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Brainstorming, Teaching Methods, Essays
Wei Wei; Yiqian (Katherine) Cao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study explores students' participation in English for Academic Purposes classrooms from both teachers' and students' perspectives. Data were collected from videotaping of 11 English for academic purposes classes, semi-structured interviews with 12 teachers and stimulated-recall interviews with 33 students. The results indicate that three…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Participation
Jian Xu; Xuyan Qiu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study examines four learner engagement dimensions (behavioural, cognitive, emotional and social) in pedagogical task performance and provides insights into the effects of two task types (information-seeking and direction-giving) and topic familiarity on learner engagement in a semester-long English course. A total of 28 foreign language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learner Engagement
Reza Zabihi; Danial Erfanitabar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study investigated the efficacy of varying degrees of written corrective feedback (WCF) explicitness on the accuracy of revised drafts and new pieces of writing among learners of different proficiency levels. A total of 130 learners of English were divided into three proficiency groups (basic, independent, and proficient users), with learners…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Revision (Written Composition)
Pak Hei Chan; Scott Aubrey – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Dialogue journals are written conversations in which two partners communicate regularly. When practiced between a teacher and student, dialogue journaling has the potential to engage students in writing, and can lead to improved teacher-student rapport. In this "Innovations in Practice" article, we evaluate the use of structured dialogue…
Descriptors: Diaries, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Teachers, Language Teachers
He, Deyuan; Li, David C. S. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
With the largest number of English learners in the world, the influence of the English language teaching (ELT) reform in China cannot be underestimated. This article explores the implications of the actual use of English in China's workplace for ELT reform in the context of English as a lingua franca (ELF). On the basis of cross-validated data…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sondari, Parawati Siti – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
To address a student-teacher educator perspective in the engagement of critical pedagogy (CP), I employed a critical and analytical autoethnography to self-investigate my lived experiences during coursework in a doctoral program in the United States. Framed in postcolonial CP in border-crossing notion, I engaged in critical and analytical…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Educators, Doctoral Programs, Postcolonialism
Chang, Peichin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The research genre has specific communicative purposes which require students to understand the tone, generic and disciplinary conventions. The present study explored the potential of thematic progression (TP) to contribute to research argument readability. TP concerns how clauses encode information and how that information is carried forward.…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Readability, Phrase Structure, Graduate Students
Richards, Jack C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
In order to position the notion of identity as more central to theory and practice in TESOL, a survey is presented of how the notion of identity contributes to our understanding of the nature of the teacher self, second language learning and teacher learning in language teaching. Available theory and research is reviewed to illustrate the sources…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yuan, Rui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Despite the rapid expansion of English-as-a-medium-of-instruction (EMI) programs in higher education, EMI teacher education is still in its infancy. This viewpoint paper analyses what language specialists can do and become in EMI teacher education in university settings. Specifically, the paper argues that language specialists can take on a new…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Teacher Education, Specialists
Zawodniak, Joanna; Kruk, Mariusz; Pawlak, Miroslaw – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Despite a growing focus on positive psychology in recent years, negative emotions have not ceased to play a crucial role in learning additional languages in the classroom. This paper reports a study that investigated one such negative emotion -- boredom -- as experienced by 115 advanced learners of English. They were asked to write a descriptive…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Negative Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction