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Evans, Michael; Fisher, Linda – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Ofsted's 2021 Curriculum Research Review outlines a language pedagogy predicated on an exclusively cognitivist approach to language learning, which relies on three 'pillars of progression': phonics, vocabulary and grammar. The review makes a brief acknowledgement of the importance of motivational factors, including 'pupils' positive views of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
Richmond, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article critiques the current arrangements for the assessment and testing of English in early-years settings and primary schools in England. It is broadly supportive of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. It is highly critical of the Year 1 phonics check, and of the tests of reading and of grammar, punctuation and spelling at the end of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Testing, Early Childhood Education
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Introduction: Many ESL college students have reading comprehension problems in English, such as difficulty understanding ideas explicitly or implicitly stated in a text, making inferences, and inferring meanings of difficult words from context. Aims: The article proposes the integration of inspirational quotes in the teaching of English to EFL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Blow, David; Myers, Helen – Language Learning Journal, 2022
In the high-stakes accountability English educational system, decisions made by government and agencies about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment drive school planning and actions. This paper analyses the drivers for the recent change to French German and Spanish GCSEs and highlights particular areas of the new specification which may damage the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Bauer-Kealey, Meredyth; Mather, Nancy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Approximately two-thirds of community college students nationwide are considered to not be ready for the demands of college and are therefore required to enroll in at least one developmental education course. Unfortunately, researchers have found that enrollment in developmental classes often has adverse effects on community college students and…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Skill Development
Marshall, Bethan – English in Education, 2017
This article looks at the changes made to examinations in England over recent decades and asks about the politics behind the changes. It considers how increasingly centralised the assessment regime has become, moving from a system where teachers could have a say in how pupils are assessed to a regime dominated by government approved tests. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Dockrell, Julie E.; Marshall, Chloë R.; Wyse, Dominic – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
To date there have been no systematic studies examining the ways in which teachers in England focus and adapt their teaching of writing. The current study addresses this gap by investigating the nature and frequency of teachers' approaches to the teaching of writing in a sample of English primary schools, using the "simple view of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Coates, Robert Alexander Graham; Gorham, Judith; Nicholas, Richard – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
Recent neurological breakthroughs in our understanding of the Critical Period Hypothesis and prosody may suggest strategies on how phonics instruction could improve L2 language learning and in particular phoneme/grapheme decoding. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled-trial on the application of prosody and phonics techniques, to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has updated its 2009 intervention report for SuccessMaker®, a set of computer-based courses designed to supplement regular K-8 reading instruction. The program is designed to improve skills in areas such as concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
"Open Court Reading©" is a reading program for grades K-6 published by McGraw-Hill Education that is designed to teach decoding, comprehension, inquiry, and writing in a three-part logical progression. Part One of each unit, Preparing to Read, focuses on phonemic awareness, sounds and letters, phonics, fluency, and word knowledge. Part…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Wormsley, Diane P. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
This article describes the components of the Individualized Meaning-centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education (I-M-ABLE) for teaching braille reading and writing to students who are blind and have additional cognitive impairments. The components of I-M-ABLE are: (1) selecting and teaching the Key Vocabulary; (2) teaching the efficient use of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Phonics, Braille, Visual Impairments
Crovitz, Darren – English Journal, 2011
This article discusses how amusing mistakes can make for serious language instruction. The notion that close analysis of language errors can yield insight into how one thinks and learns seems fundamentally obvious. Yet until relatively recently, language errors were primarily treated as indicators of learner deficiency rather than opportunities to…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction, Teacher Responsibility, Cognitive Processes
Gardner, Sheena – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
This article aims first to show how a teacher, working within a nationally proscriptive, standards-driven, mainstream context turns a form-focused phonics practice activity into a word game that engages the imagination, intellect, and identity of 5-6-year-old English language learners. Based on the assumption that teacher-student interactions are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Phonics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Ellis, Sue, Ed.; McCartney, Elspeth, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2011
Modern primary teachers must adapt literacy programmes and ensure efficient learning for all. They must also support children with language and literacy difficulties, children learning English as an additional language and possibly teach a modern foreign language. To do this effectively, they need to understand the applied linguistics research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Applied Linguistics, Inservice Teacher Education
Nation, Kate; Angell, Philip – London Review of Education, 2006
This paper reviews recent experimental findings that inform our understanding of the development of reading comprehension. Studies investigating children who have specific difficulties with reading comprehension provide considerable information concerning the process involved in successful reading comprehension. This literature highlights aspects…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties