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Teachers as Slaves or Masters to Their Coursebooks: An In-Depth Study on Two English Language Teachers' Coursebook Utilization
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Stefan Rathert; Nese Cabaroglu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Addressing an underappreciated research area, this study reports on how two English language teachers in a Turkish tertiary education context use a global coursebook. At the beginning of the study, a metaphor elicitation task and pre-study interviews were employed to detect the teachers' coursebook conceptualizations. Then, a total of 12 lessons…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Teachers, Lesson Plans, Curriculum Implementation
Making Fluency Research Accessible to Second Language Teachers: The Impact of a Training Intervention
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The study reported in this article was aimed at investigating whether making the findings of second language fluency research accessible to language teachers has an impact on their self-reported understanding of the concept of oral fluency, confidence in promoting it, and classroom practice in short and medium term. The data come from 106 initial…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Position of Grammar in Finnish, Dutch, and Global Course Books for German as a Foreign Language
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Tammenga-Helmantel, Marjon; Maijala, Minna – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Communicative language teaching and language teaching research suggest forms for desirable and effective grammar teaching. This study investigates to what extent these suggestions are integrated into teaching materials. On the basis of prior studies, we developed a list of both qualitative and quantitative criteria to determine the position of…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Role
Profiling the Collocation Use in ELT Textbooks and Learner Writing
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Tsai, Kuei-Ju – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The present study investigates the collocational profiles of (1) three series of graded textbooks for English as a foreign language (EFL) commonly used in Taiwan, (2) the written productions of EFL learners, and (3) the written productions of native speakers (NS) of English. These texts were examined against a purpose-built collocation list. Based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure
Applying Corpus-Based Findings to Form-Focused Instruction: The Case of Reported Speech
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Barbieri, Federica; Eckhardt, Suzanne E. B. – Language Teaching Research, 2007
Arguing that the introduction of corpus linguistics in teaching materials and the language classroom should be informed by theories and principles of SLA, this paper presents a case study illustrating how corpus-based findings on reported speech can be integrated into a form-focused model of instruction. After overviewing previous work which…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
The Acquisition of Semantics-Syntax Correspondences and Verb Frequencies in ESL Materials.
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Juffs, Alan – Language Teaching Research, 1998
Provides an analysis of the frequency of verbs and their syntactic requirements in "Interchange" (Richards et al., 1991), a popular series of textbooks for English as a Second Language (ESL). A corpus analysis of "Interchange" suggests that ESL materials may underrepresent some of the verb classes that are known to cause learners difficulty.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning