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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
Therova, Dana – TESL-EJ, 2023
Since written assignments often constitute the main form of assessment in tertiary education, academic writing skills are of paramount importance to university students. The role of academic writing in turn emphasises two aspects vital for successful written production at universities: genre awareness as students are assessed on the production of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods
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
L2 Narrative Identity as Drama: Exploring Links between L2 Learning Experience and the Ideal L2 Self
Gillies, Hamish – TESL-EJ, 2023
Recent studies elaborating on the L2 learning experience component of the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009), especially through a narrative identity perspective, mark a new direction in L2 motivation research. This paper extends this work by exploring the connection between the L2 learning experience and ideal L2 self components.…
Descriptors: Drama, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Jang, Helen – TESL-EJ, 2023
There has been a gradual change in Korean English curricula and education systems over recent decades to enhance the ability to communicate in English confidently in an increasingly globalized society. The Korean government has been initiating new policies in English curricula to improve the quality of English education in state schools;…
Descriptors: Practicums, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language)
Muranova, Olga; Koltovskaia, Svetlana; Miller, Michol – TESL-EJ, 2023
Despite suggestions being a common speech act used by writing center tutors, very limited research is available on the use of suggestions in online writing center practice. Drawing upon multiple sources of data including the chat transcript, screen recording of the session, and final revised version of the writer's text, this case study explores…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Acts
Nguyen, Hoang Huy; Pham, Thuy Thanh – TESL-EJ, 2023
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 put the education system worldwide in a critical situation with a sudden shift from the traditional face-to-face to the online mode of instruction. Many studies have been conducted over the past two years to investigate teachers' struggle with this abrupt transition; however, a complete picture of their emotional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Well Being
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
Pratiwi, Damar Isti; Puspitasari, Armyta; Fikria, Ainun – TESL-EJ, 2023
While writing has evolved away from the conventional method of using pens and paper in favor of digital tools (Li et al., 2019), English teachers continue to face difficulties in teaching writing. This study shows how mind-mapping and the program, Writeabout, can be merged for online writing classes in English for Specific Purposes (ESP)…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Mapping, Computer Assisted Instruction
Fielden Burns, Laura V.; Martínez Agudo, Juan de Dios – TESL-EJ, 2023
This research investigated six established areas for quality (Ortega-Martín et al., 2018) in the implementation of CLIL programmes in a Spanish monolingual autonomous community from the perspective of its teachers, in particular focusing on possible differences of opinion between content and English language teachers, an understudied area. Both…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chang, Anna C. -S. – TESL-EJ, 2023
Research has shown that second language (L2) learners generally lack multiword expression knowledge, and L2 researchers and practitioners have tried various techniques to assist L2 learners to acquire it more efficiently. This study adopted an under-researched technique-- repeated oral reading--to enhance the retention of high-frequency multiword…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Reading
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
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