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Bushra Ahmed Khurram – SAGE Open, 2023
Previous studies related to metacognition and reading have extensively investigated metacognitive awareness of reading/reading strategies of students at a particular point in time and/or relation between metacognitive awareness and reading ability. However, research illustrating the changes in students' awareness and use of the reading strategies…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Munassir Alhamami – SAGE Open, 2023
This paper hypothesizes that higher proficiency in the medium of instruction (MI) is a precondition for effective instructional communication (IC), with the latter being essential for higher cognitive processes, positive affects, and better performance in the learning environment. The reported study used questionnaires comprising open-ended…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Feifei Liu; Xiaoli Wang; Siros Izadpanah – SAGE Open, 2023
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the efficiency of the lecture and flipped classroom instruction method (FCIM) on EFL students' academic passion (AP) and responsibility. Although these variables have been studied before, more studies still need to be conducted in this field. The statistical population of this study…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Rui Yang; Haiying Pan – SAGE Open, 2023
In recent years, the challenges and lack of progress in writing argumentative essays in English have posed a pedagogical challenge for Chinese university students. To address this issue, this paper adopts an action research pedagogy and implements a 10-week intervention aimed at teaching argumentative writing based on the Toulmin model of…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), College Students, Intervention
Wenqing Peng; Mu Hu; Peng Bi – SAGE Open, 2023
There has long been a consensus that translation competence is a multi-componential construct, encompassing linguistic, strategic, and extra-linguistic competence. In this digitalized age, when translators are required to work with complex discourses (e.g., multimodal discourses), the cultivation of translation competence also calls for new…
Descriptors: Translation, Competence, Blended Learning, Student Attitudes
Qing Xie – SAGE Open, 2023
This study reports on an investigate study about using simulation in business English teaching with 66 English-major advanced learners, using two-stage surveys. This study addresses the three research questions focusing on the needs and challenges, effectiveness and learning outcomes and suggestions for improvement of simulation in business…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Simulation, Majors (Students)
Xie, Qing – SAGE Open, 2022
To enhance pedagogical innovation, the study reports on an investigative study using surveys and teacher participant observation of 121 English-major undergraduates about using problem-based approach under active learning framework in business English teaching, learning outcomes, and suggestions for the teaching and learning process to cultivate…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Business English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Saleh, Alaa Mamoun; Ahmed Althaqafi, Abeer Sultan – SAGE Open, 2022
Vocabulary is an essential element of English language learning. There are many strategies, which teachers can use in teaching vocabulary, especially to young learners. One of these strategies is using educational games to teach vocabulary more effectively. The aim of this quasi-experimental study is to investigate the effect of using educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development, Educational Games
Mahdi, Dawood Ahmed – SAGE Open, 2022
This study examines the correlation existing between students speaking competency and their interaction with multimedia devices in the classroom learning process. A mixed-method study design has been employed to explore the impact of an interactive multimedia environment on their presentation and speaking skills. Initially, 46 Arabic-speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
Terzioglu, Yildiz; Kurt, Mustafa – SAGE Open, 2022
It is significant to immerse tech-savvy English language learners in interactive learning environments in order to maximize their comprehension and verbal communication. This quasi-experimental study set out to elucidate the effect of a learning management system (LMS) on speaking fluency and listening skill development among intermediate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Listening Skills
Li, Hong; Gan, Zhengdong; Leung, Shing On; An, Zhujun – SAGE Open, 2022
This study investigated the effect of explicit reading strategy instruction on reading comprehension, reading strategy use, reading motivation, and reading self-efficacy in Chinese university EFL learners. A total of 117 first-year university students were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. Students in the…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Wang, Xue; Zhang, Wei – SAGE Open, 2022
Given the significance of cultivating students' autonomous learning ability, there is a need to develop an instructional model that can improve students' awareness and behavior of autonomous learning, as well as to explore the effectiveness and optimization of this model effectively. Taking college English course as a case study, this paper…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personal Autonomy, Case Studies
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
Lin, Ming Huei – SAGE Open, 2021
This article reports a pre-post comparative study investigating whether the data-driven learning (DDL) approach has different pedagogical effects on grammar students of English as a foreign language (EFL) with different levels of English proficiency. The study entailed a treatment group (TG) of 95 first-year undergraduates who learned grammar…
Descriptors: Data Use, Discovery Learning, College Freshmen, Late Adolescents
Schenck, Andrew – SAGE Open, 2021
Past experimental studies of corrective feedback (CF) have isolated factors like grammatical complexity, learner proficiency, and L1 one by one, carefully designing experiments that eliminate the influence of "extraneous" factors. Because each factor is actually codependent, more holistic study is needed. Eleven studies, all of which had…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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