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Tajeddin, Zia; Saeedi, Zari; Mozaffari, Hamideh – TESL-EJ, 2023
Various features of teacher instruction underpin the criteria used for the evaluation of teacher quality. The current study sought to explore whether nativeness/non-nativeness affects the criteria teachers consider for teacher quality evaluation. To this end, the participants were provided with five video clips of teaching, each presenting a…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Caring, Classroom Techniques
Bromley, Jennifer; Yazdanpanah, Lilly K. – TESL-EJ, 2021
This article reports on a research project that aimed to explore teachers' perspectives on parental involvement at a Melbourne based primary school with a high number of refugee and migrant children. Despite the acknowledged value of parental involvement in a child's schooling, we have found that parents are not always viewed as a valuable…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Ruane, Colum – TESL-EJ, 2020
An approximate replication of Yashima, Zenuk-Nishide, and Shimizu (2004), the main focus of this study was on the relationship between L2 WTC and International Posture in an ESL environment. International Posture measures the degree of connectedness to the international community from within an EFL context. However, attitudes may change when there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Burri, Michael; Amanda Baker – TESL-EJ, 2020
Inquiry into learning to teach pronunciation is a growing area within the second language teacher education research paradigm. To what extent this learning process extends into instructors' early years of teaching pronunciation has yet to be explored. This article is a response to this need by exploring the 3.5-year trajectory of five teachers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation, Language Teachers
Hamid, M. Obaidul; Hoang, Ngoc T. H. – TESL-EJ, 2018
Test-takers' voices in relation to high-stakes language tests have received growing attention in recent years. While the perspectives of this stakeholder group can be utilised to improve test quality, test-taking experience, and test impact, we argue that this goal needs to be achieved by considering a fundamental shift in our conceptualisation of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Testing, Humanization
Xu, Zhichang – TESL-EJ, 2017
The internationalization of higher education has brought students from different countries into direct contact with one another. One of the scenarios is intercultural communication among international students in an online environment mediated through institutional e-learning systems, for example, Moodle and Blackboard. In this paper, I analyze…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
Yuan, Yifeng; Shen, Huizhong; Ewing, Robyn – TESL-EJ, 2017
For a long time, Australian English and culture have not been viewed in China as an equal to its American and British counterpart. This is reflected in teachers' choice of destination when it comes to English teaching and learning resources. This paper examines Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' perceptions of the contents and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Edwads, Emily; Roger, Peter Stewart – TESL-EJ, 2015
As one constituent of second language (L2) motivation, L2 "self-confidence" has been shown to be a significant predictor of language proficiency. More recently, L2 self-confidence has been studied as part of the "willingness to communicate" (WTC) construct. Less is known, however, about the processes by which learners develop…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Learning Motivation, Self Esteem
Yazdanpanah, Lilly K. – TESL-EJ, 2015
English as a second language (ESL) teaching is partly a thinking process in which teacher knowledge plays a pivotal role in making instructional choices (Breen, Hird, Milton, Oliver, & Thwaite, 2001). The present study contributes to understandings of teacher knowledge by exploring the types of knowledge, which practicing teachers value in…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Likert Scales
Murray, Jill C. – TESL-EJ, 2011
Instructional pragmatics in teacher education is generally focused on ways that ESOL teachers can develop the pragmatic competence of L2 learners. However, as every interaction in an English medium classroom requires a high level of pragmatic competence on the part of teachers themselves, it can also be conceptualised more broadly to encompass the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Fotovatian, Sepideh – TESL-EJ, 2010
This paper provides an account of social integration and professional recognition of non-English-speaking-background (NESB) teachers of English in Australia. The case study profiles two Iranian postgraduate students of English teaching in an Australian university and describes their struggle to construct a social and professional identity. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Recognition, Social Integration, Second Language Instruction
Mu, Congjun; Carrington, Suzanne – TESL-EJ, 2007
The purpose of this study is to investigate the writing processes of second language (L2) writers, specifically examining the writing strategies of three Chinese post-graduate students in an Australian higher education institution. The study was prompted by the paucity of second language writing strategies of Chinese students in an authentic…
Descriptors: Asians, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ellis, Elizabeth Margaret – TESL-EJ, 2006
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in English-speaking countries are not usually required to have proficiency in another language. Teacher competency statements frequently require "an understanding of second language development," and it is assumed that a monolingual teacher can attain such understanding without…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
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Burke, Ed; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – TESL-EJ, 1996
Reports a study of academic and non-academic demands as perceived by a group of Australian non- native English speaking students in the first semester of postgraduate studies. Relates relevant research to participants' responses to a questionnaire and in follow-up interviews about academic difficulties, such as the use of first language and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
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Yonovitz, L.; Yonovitz, A.; Palmer, Juan C. – TESL-EJ, 2000
Australia's indigenous populations have endemic levels of otitis media with conductive hearing loss. PA-EFL is a phonological awareness program designed for indigenous Australians who are at high risk for hearing disabilities and who are learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Hearing support services were provided; remarkable literacy gains…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments, Indigenous Populations