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Zuoteng Li; Jiayan Zeng; Benjamin H. Nam – SAGE Open, 2023
This article examines the multimodal native cultural content in two sets of English-language textbooks widely used in public junior high schools in China and Mongolia. A pre-existing analytical framework was adapted for this analysis. Through this adapted framework, this paper aims to analyze and compare the distribution of multimodal native…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Akhmetova, Aigul; Imambayeva, Gaysha; Csapó, Beno – SAGE Open, 2022
This study explores the reading strategies (RSs) of bilingual and monolingual young learners in their first and second languages (L1 and L2, respectively)--either Kazakh or Russian as the L1 and L2--and English as a foreign language (L3). It also examines the influence of RSs on the learners' performance on reading comprehension tests in the three…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Achievement, Middle School Students, Bilingualism
Yu, Jia; Liu, Xiaobin – SAGE Open, 2022
Several studies and assumptions support the advantages of presenting pictures before texts, such as the Sequencing Effects of Integrated Model of Text and Picture Comprehension (the Sequencing Effects of ITPC Model) and the Scaffolding Assumption. However, few studies have examined the efficacy of text-first or picture-first multimodal input on…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Davis, Ernest Kofi; Ntow, Forster D.; Beccles, Christopher – SAGE Open, 2022
The study examined the factors that influence the performance of students in selected public junior high schools in Ghana using English Language, Mathematics and Science as cases and also to determine whether these observed performances support the continued implementation of the national policy on progression. In all, 98 teachers and 982 Junior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – SAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China. Data analysis compares modal verbs in the textbook and native corpus by referring to distributional features, semantic functions and co-occurring constructions; and the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lo, Chih-Cheng; Wen, Hsifu; Lin, Yi-Shuang – SAGE Open, 2021
While the effect of Readers Theater (RT) on English oral reading fluency has been extensively investigated, research on the effect of RT on adolescents' English reading and listening comprehension was scant and yielded different results. This research aimed to explore how RT instruction influenced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Zainil, Yetti; Arsyad, Safnil – SAGE Open, 2021
Teachers often code-switch in the EFL classroom, but the question of whether or not they are aware of their code-switching has not been satisfactorily answered. This article presents the study on teachers' understandings and beliefs about their code-switching practices in EFL classrooms as well as effective language teaching and learning. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods
Baig, Sana; Javed, Fareeha; Siddiquah, Aishah; Khanam, Afifa – SAGE Open, 2021
The present study analyzes the English textbook of Grade 8 published by Punjab Textbook Board in Pakistan in the light of student learning outcomes (SLOs) of four competencies: reading and thinking skills, writing skills, oral communication skills, and formal and lexical aspects of language of the latest English curriculum in Pakistan. Competency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, English (Second Language)
Karimova, Könül; Csapó, Beno – SAGE Open, 2021
Most researchers have studied students' academic self-concept within native language and mathematics, indicating the multidimensional nature of academic self-concept. However, there is a shortage of studies that examined the twofold multidimensional structure of verbal self-concept within the internal/external frame of reference (I/E) model of two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Self Concept
Qiu, Qing; Xie, Zhilong; Xiong, Yueya; Zhou, Fen – SAGE Open, 2021
This article aims to study the dynamic change of teachers' beliefs among pre-service teachers. A longitudinal design was adopted to investigate English language teaching (ELT) pre-service teachers' belief change after a 3-month teaching practicum by administering pretest and posttest questionnaires, semistructured interviews, and reflective…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers, Practicums
Liu, Meihua; Hong, Min – SAGE Open, 2021
The present large-scale mixed-method study examined English language classroom anxiety and enjoyment in Chinese young students in relation to gender and grade level. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 709 primary and secondary school students from a province in south China. Major findings were: (1) Around one third of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Anxiety
Al-Bogami, Basmah; Elyas, Tariq – SAGE Open, 2020
The use of iPad and other handheld devices in classrooms is spreading. Their use can empower learners and expose them to a plethora of resources. Yet, when it comes to learning a foreign language, reasonably little has been done to empirically ascertain the influence of iPad apps on facilitating language learning as well as engaging language…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chen, Yi-Mei – SAGE Open, 2020
Communicative approaches have been a dominant paradigm in foreign/second language teaching since the 1980s. However, they are not widely accepted by teachers in many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. The current study adopted an action research approach to study classroom practice in a Taiwanese EFL secondary school, to identify and…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), English Teachers, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Wood, Carla; Wofford, Mary Claire; Hassinger, Abby – SAGE Open, 2018
Aims of the current study were to explore teachers' background, beliefs, attitudes, and sense of self-efficacy, as well as instructional supports and innovative practices in response to cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms serving Spanish-English speaking children of migrant workers. A total of 22 teachers participated in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Migrant Workers, Cultural Differences
Albino, Gabriel – SAGE Open, 2017
This study was an attempt to assess how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) improved their speaking fluency in a task-based language teaching (TBLT) approach used with ninth-grade learners at PUNIV-Cazenga, a high school in Luanda. In a case study design that used picture-description tasks, learners' speeches were audio recorded before…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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