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Egbert, Joy L.; Shahrokni, Seyed Abdollah; Zhang, Xue; Abobaker, Reima; Bantawtook, Pruksapan; He, Haixia; Bekar, Mira; Roe, Mary F.; Huh, Keun – TESL-EJ, 2021
Recent research points to the need for a specific research focus on language task engagement because task engagement can lead to increased motivation, persistence, satisfaction, and learner achievement (Early, Rogge, & Deci, 2014; Henri, Halverson, & Graham, 2015; Reeve & Lee, 2014); a major gap in the research in this area is the lack…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kol, Sara; Schcolnik, Miriam – TESL-EJ, 2021
For students of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), reading articles in their field of study in English is particularly challenging. One of their main difficulties is understanding unfamiliar words. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of online monolingual and bilingual dictionary tools on reading comprehension in English and…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Electronic Publishing, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Qureshi, Muhammad Asif – TESL-EJ, 2021
The current study examined differences in morphosyntactic knowledge of Arabic learners who had significant exposure to English as a medium of instruction at the primary and tertiary educational levels. The study involved a grammaticality judgment task, an editing task, and a background questionnaire. Based on the background questionnaire, the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grammar, Editing, Task Analysis
Andrew, Martin – TESL-EJ, 2020
This paper analyses the impact of an evaluation-focused language teacher education program under Vietnam's National Foreign Languages 2020 project, run at Hanoi University in 2015 and 2017. Funded by The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), this intensive 150-hour university-level program employed international experts to deliver content…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hall, James M.; Gaynor, Brian – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article reports on the design and implementation of an innovative primary EFL program in Myanmar. Begun in 2014, the program is part of the CREATE Project, a joint initiative between the Myanmar Ministry of Education and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project has involved the planning, designing and implementation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development
Kim, Kyung Min – TESL-EJ, 2020
Despite a high score in Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and a fluent command of English in non-academic contexts, international graduate students may find themselves struggling to write academic papers, perhaps almost immediately after they begin graduate education. Although graduate faculty can see variations on student papers, they…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Task Analysis, English (Second Language)
Ton Nu, Anh T.; Murray, Jill – TESL-EJ, 2020
Recent research studies in ESL/EFL contexts worldwide have shown a gap between the findings of pragmatics research and how the English language is actually taught and learnt in EFL classrooms, as well as a paucity of pragmatic information provided in ESL/EFL textbooks. Utilizing content analysis, this study explores the provision of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lim, See Chen; Renandya, Willy A. – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article takes a meta-analytic approach to investigate the efficacy of written corrective feedback in second language (L2) writing instruction. With its widespread practice in second language acquisition (SLA), written corrective feedback has increasingly garnered attention as much as it has continued to be a subject of considerable…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
Halaczkiewicz, Marta – TESL-EJ, 2020
The present article describes a study that analyzed practical applications of informal online spaces in formal instruction. It was conducted in an intermediate ESL course at an American University. The concept of affinity spaces was used to guide the research. Students in the course were instructed to play the video game, Pokémon Go as an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Informal Education
Cinkara, Emrah – TESL-EJ, 2020
Focusing on the reflective exchanges of four test writers at an intensive language school within a public university, this study explored the effectiveness of a "lesson study" model on their professional development as test writers. Lesson study is a powerful tool for teachers' professional development and a modified version of it--a…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Kamhi-Stein, Lia D.; Lao, Ravy S.; Issagholian, Nairi – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article reports on two case studies designed to investigate the use of Mursion, a mixed-reality simulation platform, in two language teacher preparation programs. The first case study involved eliciting the attitudes of MA in TESOL [Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages] pre-service teachers (PSTs) toward the mixed-reality…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Werner, Valentin – TESL-EJ, 2020
English-language, and especially US-American TV series have been identified as a major point of contact with the target language for learners of English as a Foreign Language, and the discourse represented there constitutes authentic material that is easily accessible. While the potential of using TV discourse in language education has been widely…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Second Language Learning
Göktürk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Dikilitas, Kenan – TESL-EJ, 2020
This study examines how an online training into teacher research has been evaluated in relation to the three main elements of the community of inquiry framework (CoI): teaching, social, and cognitive presences. We held the online training as a part of TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO) and offered a course on how teacher research can be…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Positive Attitudes, Online Courses
Derakhshan, Ali; Coombe, Christine; Zhaleh, Kiyana; Tabatabaeian, Maryamsadat – TESL-EJ, 2020
The present study investigated the significance of teachers' Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs and views of research with regard to their success among a group of 177 Iranian EFL teachers. To fulfill this aim, the participants responded to three questionnaires; the Teacher Professional Development Needs Questionnaire, an English…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Professional Development, Educational Needs, Language Teachers
Bates, James; Son, Jeong-Bae – TESL-EJ, 2020
Learning the words of a language is crucial to successful language learning. The study reported in this article aimed to investigate the potential for simple images to be used in foreign language vocabulary learning. English words presented in either first language form or simple pictorial form were used as cues for recall in classroom and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness