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Zhang, Danyang; Wu, Junjie Gavin – TESL-EJ, 2023
English language education nowadays is not merely about the instruction and acquisition of linguistic knowledge and skills. Instead, it has progressed to the real-life applications of the target language, which further requires a mastery of cultural knowledge and skills. In terms of culture, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, compared…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Active Learning
Leal, Priscila – TESL-EJ, 2023
This article presents a theoretically grounded methodological approach to investigate the interplay between language teacher cognition and critical language teacher identity development. To answer the question as to what social, cultural, historical, and political aspects lead teachers to position themselves as language teachers for social…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Correlation
Yazan, Bedrettin; Lindahl, Kristen – TESL-EJ, 2023
In this paper, as two TESOL practitioners, our purpose is to capture our reflections on how conceptual approaches to teacher learning have evolved over the years to highlight the interplay between teacher cognition and teacher identity. We also seek to decrease the distance between ourselves and our academic writing, essentially emerging from…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cribb, Michael – TESL-EJ, 2023
With the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing popularity of videoconferencing software such as Zoom, the move to online and /or hybrid teaching has never been more rapid. With this change, however, maintaining presence in the classroom has become a great challenge simply because of the nature of online teaching. Presence is a teaching…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Videoconferencing, Blended Learning, Teacher Participation
Lehotska, Nikola; Tomaš, Zuzana; Vojtkulakova, Margita – TESL-EJ, 2022
This article contributes to the literature on the value of Virtual Exchanges (VEs) in the field of technology-mediated language learning. Specifically, we report on a pilot program for high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Slovakia and English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in Michigan, USA who engaged in a 10-week,…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Exchange Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kohn, Kurt – TESL-EJ, 2022
In pedagogical debates about Global Englishes (GE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF), there is widespread agreement concerning an urgent need for liberating teachers and students from the normative constraints of ELT's orientation towards standard English by raising their awareness of the characteristics and complexities of GE/ELF…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Herrera, Luis Javier Pentón; Custodio, Brenda; O'Loughlin, Judith – TESL-EJ, 2022
Recent trends of migration have contributed to the growing number of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) in our K-12 classrooms in the United States and worldwide. Simultaneously, the visibility of SLIFE in academic publications from around the world (i.e., Custodio & O'Loughlin, 2017; DeCapua et al., 2020; Pentón…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Out of School Youth, Migrants, Migrant Children
Yigitbilek, Demet – TESL-EJ, 2022
Deficiency-oriented attitudes are still common occurrences despite growing emphasis on linguistic and cultural diversity. Promoting inclusivity in learning, Herrera (2016) proposed "biography-driven instruction" emphasizing the power of students' assets. Though her work was intended for young learners' biliteracy, I argue that the tenets…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Stevens, Vance – TESL-EJ, 2021
With the onset of COVID-19 and the continuing need to move both teaching and professional encounters online, novel approaches providing effective ways of doing both are gaining increasing attention. There was of course considerable work being done in virtual worlds long before COVID-19 became a factor, but now that it is becoming the norm for…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Virtual Classrooms, Videoconferencing, Computer Mediated Communication
Roarty, Adam; Hagley, Eric – TESL-EJ, 2021
This paper details methods teachers can utilize in a Virtual Exchange (VE) project to maximize development of intercultural communication and linguistic competence. The International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) was born out of a desire to connect students in monocultural classrooms to multiple cultures. The project was started in Japan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Vercellotti, MaryLou – TESL-EJ, 2021
Analytic rubrics are promoted as important tools to assess learner performance and to improve learning outcomes. Rubrics, however, are not appropriate for every classroom assessment, particularly given the time and effort required to construct well-designed rubrics. In classroom assessment, instructors must balance the beneficial consequences of…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marshall, Helaine W.; Kostka, Ilka – TESL-EJ, 2020
Many educators are divided about the benefits of online teaching and learning, especially in the current COVID-19 pandemic when such instruction is necessary and often accompanied by insufficient preparation. It is not surprising, therefore, that many of us who teach English language learners and train pre-service teachers find ourselves in a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, English Language Learners
Jacobs, George M.; Ivone, Francisca Maria – TESL-EJ, 2020
Providing students with opportunities for peer interaction is considered best practice in classroom teaching. However, facilitating peer interaction as part of distance education represents a new challenge for some teachers. The present article raises eleven questions for teachers to consider when infusing cooperative learning (thoughtfully…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Distance Education, Best Practices, Peer Relationship
Seedhouse, Paul; Heslop, Phil; Kharruf, Ahmed – TESL-EJ, 2020
Cooking is a universal task of humanity and is intimately linked with culture and language. This article explains the advantages of using real-world cooking as a basis for task-based and technology-assisted language learning. It outlines how the latest digital technology can be used by learners over the Internet to learn aspects of languages and…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Internet, Food, Curriculum Enrichment
Farrell, Thomas S. C. – TESL-EJ, 2019
This paper is motived by an email message the author received recently from a practicing, 'well-qualified' (BA and MA in Linguistics and a (200 hundred hour) TESL Certificate) ESL teacher in the US who was reaching out because she felt her training as a teacher had failed her. This prompted the author to reflect on two main inconvenient truths…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers