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Zavialova, Alisa – TESL-EJ, 2023
Pragmatic formulas have been recognized as linguistic building blocks necessary for successful speech act performance. Current approaches to speech act teaching overlook pragmatic formulas, promoting an incomplete view of pragmatics instruction. This paper reports on the results of a classroom-based study in which a formula-enhanced treatment…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Do, Hieu Manh – TESL-EJ, 2023
This study aims to investigate Vietnamese students' perceptions of portfolio assessment and how it affects their writing performance. Furthermore, the study explores problems encountered during the assessment process, which could offer professional support for teachers, particularly novice teachers, when applying this formative assessment to…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Portfolio Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Burgin, Ximena D.; Daniel, Mayra C.; Riley, Carolyn F. – TESL-EJ, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled educational communities across the world into emergency remote models of instruction. This study documented the perceptions of 11 teachers from the State of Illinois regarding the quality of online instruction in their schools and their unexpected challenges from March of 2019-2020 academic year. Three points of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Educational Change
Boonmoh, Atipat; Kamsa-ard, Thiratchapon – TESL-EJ, 2023
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers (PSTs) experienced various forms of teaching anxiety. However, during the pandemic, they likely encountered additional, different types of teaching anxiety, especially at the teaching practicum stage. This study investigated factors causing anxiety in these PSTs…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Anxiety
Linares, Sthephanny Moncada – TESL-EJ, 2023
Developing intercultural communicative competence has become an inevitable need within 21st-century demands, mobilizing global efforts to promote unity through diversity. However, within the Colombian context and supported by an economic interest in bilingualism, most English language teaching programs still advocate educational practices that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cancino, Marco; Tomicic, Nedjelka – TESL-EJ, 2023
Developing second/foreign language (L2) comprehension skills can represent a challenging endeavor for learners with autism spectrum condition (ASC) because their social and verbal cognition may be impaired in terms of abstract reasoning, organizing, and retelling events, inferring intentions, and identifying emotions contained in a text. Thus, it…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Casinto, Carlo Domingo – TESL-EJ, 2023
Although studies on peer feedback have identified several advantages for second language writing classes, the benefits of peer feedback to low-proficiency students have not been thoroughly investigated. This current study aims to determine how low-proficiency second-language students of English can improve their writing by giving and receiving…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
Zhu, Lian; Aslan, Erhan – TESL-EJ, 2023
While foreign language anxiety has received abundant empirical attention, its relationship with foreign language enjoyment and specific language skills is not clearly understood. The present study explores the relationships between Chinese EFL learners' foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA), foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), Likert Scales
Estaji, Masoomeh; Banitalebi, Zahra – TESL-EJ, 2023
Despite a large number of studies on teachers' assessment literacy (AL) and the increasing interest in digital assessment, there is a paucity of research on teachers' AL in digital environments (TALiDE). To bridge this gap, the current study explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on TALiDE, the roles, and competencies underlying TALiDE, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Nazari, Mostafa; Karimpour, Sedigheh; Xodabande, Ismail – TESL-EJ, 2023
While research on second language teacher cognition (SLTC) has significantly developed over the past three decades, this line of inquiry has not paid adequate attention to material development/evaluation as compared to the key role that materials play in teachers' daily practice. In response to this gap, in this study we adopted the theoretical…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rintaro Sato – TESL-EJ, 2023
Maximizing English as a foreign language (EFL) students' use of their second language (L2), minimizing native language (L1) can help them to develop L2 proficiency. In the monolingual approach, the exclusion of L1 is preferred. However, students' use of their first language (L1) in code-switching or translanguaging can be advantageous. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Behrooz Kalantari; Mohammad Aliakbari; Reza Khany – TESL-EJ, 2023
The present study adopted a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to explore the status of nurturing creativity in Iranian EFL classrooms. A standard questionnaire was given to 214 public high school EFL teachers to rate the frequency of using the creativity-nurturing strategies in their classrooms. While the curriculum policies stipulate…
Descriptors: Creativity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Helen Lepp Friesen – TESL-EJ, 2023
With business relations and international travel on the rise between China and English-speaking countries, the need for English teachers in China has also increased. One method of teaching English in China occurs through summer English camps. The research presented here examines the teacher, camp coordinator, student, and parent experience with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summer Programs, Camps, English (Second Language)
Pontier, Ryan W. – TESL-EJ, 2022
The population of emergent bilingual students in the United States is growing rapidly, requiring that teachers be prepared to provide them an effective education. Inadequate preparation of teachers to work with these students indicates the need to revise the ways that teacher education programs address this issue (Palmer & Martínez, 2013),…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chu, Shin Ying; Ng, Lay Shi; McConnell, Grace – TESL-EJ, 2022
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a three-dimensional approach to professional services in which high-quality and current research evidence is integrated with practitioner expertise along with client values to inform assessment and treatment decisions. The primary objective of this study is to promote the importance of EBPs for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Internet, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education