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Download full textMcQuillan, Jeff – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
Macalister and Webb (2019) claim that "children's literature" written for native English speakers is too difficult for intermediate English as a Second Language (ESL) students, those who have acquired the first 3,000 to 4,000 most commonly used words in English. The authors analyzed a corpus of short stories written for a classroom…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, English, Native Speakers, English Language Learners
Coben, Diana; Miller-Reilly, Barbara – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2014
In this paper we review and compare language policy in relation to adult numeracy education in Wales and New Zealand with respect to the Maori and Welsh languages in the latest stage of our international comparative study of adult numeracy education. While much has been written about the relationship between language and literacy, the relationship…
Descriptors: Numbers, Numeracy, Adult Education, Comparative Education
Direct linkRuecker, Todd – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
Over the past decade, English Language Teaching (ELT) scholars have shown an increased interest in exploring the intersections of racism and native speakerism, leading to more articles, special journal issues, and edited collections dealing with this topic. While this work has been valuable, it has largely been limited to considering one's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers, Racial Bias
Rogers, Sandra H. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Writing research has long attempted to define and assess coherence in written prose; however the researchers have often ignored or inadequately met the needs of writing students who require a simple definition of coherence that they can use to revise their own prose. One exception is Joseph Williams, author of "Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Prose
Zhu, Yunxia – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
Confronted with various issues in teaching business writing to Chinese students in New Zealand, this paper sees the need for bridging the gap between genre-based research and teaching in an intercultural context. Specifically, it develops an intercultural reflective model in the light of Bhatia's sociocognitive genre study as well as…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Teaching Methods
Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Elder, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2005
This article examines the language choices made by native-speaker teachers of Japanese, Korean, German and French in foreign language (FL) classrooms in New Zealand secondary schools. It explores these teachers' patterns of alternation between English, the majority language, and the TL, using both AS-units (Analysis of Speech units), devised by…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
