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Seong Hyeon Choi; Kemtong Sinwongsuwat – rEFLections, 2024
Technology-enhanced language learning, or TELL, has played a major role in boosting EFL learners' speaking skills in recent years. The use of online technological methods such as vlogging and uploading videos to popular social networks such as YouTube, in particular, has been recommended as a tool to hone students' conversation skills in addition…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Farrelly, Martin James; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – SAGE Open, 2021
Utilizing Conversation Analysis, this study examined classroom interactions to identify strategies secondary school teachers used to elicit EFL learners' talk in four micro-pedagogical contexts. How strategies were used, and the challenges teachers faced were also explored. Four Thai teachers of English participated in the study, and approximately…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Tantiwich, Kornsak; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – English Language Teaching, 2019
Adopting the interactional linguistic framework, the study aimed at exploring the range and frequency of interactional functions of yes/no tokens used by Thai university students of A2 proficiency in their English conversation, and contrasting their use with that of English native speakers (ENSs). The data was derived from 83, two-three party…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Communication, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Waedaoh, Abdulloh; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – English Language Teaching, 2018
The study investigated the effectiveness of Conversation Analysis (CA)-informed sitcom lessons in enhancing conversation abilities of Thai learners of English. The participants included 42 high school students enrolled in an English for Communication course at a public high school in Southern Thailand. Through 15-week sitcom lessons, they were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong; Nicoletti, Kathleen – English Language Teaching, 2020
Encouraged by previous studies which recommended incorporating insights from Conversation Analysis (CA) into English conversation teaching to improve EFL students' oral proficiency, this paper reports on the findings from Phase I of a longitudinal study designed to investigate the impact of employing a CA-informed teaching (CA-T) model to improve…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
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Praneetponkrang, Sasitorn; Phaiboonnugulkij, Malinee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article aims to advocate retelling stories technique for developing speaking ability of grade 9 students in Thailand. Morrow's theory (1981) and other scholars in retelling stories technique are presented. This technique is integrated in the lesson plans following Morrow's framework. Narrative text of short stories which refer to daily life…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – Language Testing in Asia, 2012
This paper reassesses the mainstream tasks used for evaluating Thai EFL learners' speaking skills: face-to-face interview and role-play. Based on final and preliminary findings from small-scale classroom research, it examines the capacity of these two tasks to assess the learners' conversation skills in particular and recommends a task that is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Skills
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Kongmee, Isara; Strachan, Rebecca; Pickard, Alison; Montgomery, Catherine – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online gaming shows potential not just for entertaining, but also in education. This research investigates the use of commercial MMORPGs to support second language teaching. MMORPGs offer virtual safe spaces in which students can communicate by using their…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Role Playing, Second Language Learning, Computer Simulation
Smith, Ann F. V., Ed.; Strong, Gregory, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
"Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation" presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with adults. Adult language learners are goal oriented and direct their learning to fulfill particular needs or demands: to advance their studies, to progress up the career ladder, to follow business opportunities, to pass…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries