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Stenton, Anthony – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The CNRS-financed authoring system SWANS (Synchronised Web Authoring Notation System), now used in several CercleS centres, was developed by teams from four laboratories as a personalised learning tool for the purpose of making available knowledge about lexical stress patterns and mother-tongue interference in L2 speech production--helping…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Syllables, Acoustics, Oral Language
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Judson, Gillian; Egan, Kieran – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Imagination is rarely acknowledged as one of the main workhorses of learning. Unfortunately, disregarding the imagination has some clearly negative pedagogical impacts: Learning is more ineffective than it should be and much schooling is more tedious than it need be. In this paper, we outline a somewhat new way of thinking about the process of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Imagination, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
"Ladders to Literacy" is a supplemental early literacy curriculum composed of 60 activities designed to develop children's print/book awareness, metalinguistic awareness, and oral language skills. The "Ladders to Literacy" activities can be implemented in a variety of early childhood settings and adapted for children with…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Preschool Children
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
"Let's Begin with the Letter People"[R] is an early childhood literacy curriculum that uses 26 thematic units--each of which covers a letter of the alphabet--to develop children's language and early literacy skills. A major focus of the program is phonological awareness, including rhyming, word play, alliteration, and segmentation.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Children, Oral Language
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Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice
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Öztürk, Gökhan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
This classroom research study investigates corrective feedback implications in a sample of Turkish EFL classrooms. The types of corrective feedback, their distribution and the reasons of error ignorance were the foci. Four speaking classes in the English preparatory program of a Turkish state university were video-recorded for 12 hours in total…
Descriptors: Investigations, Feedback (Response), Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
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El-Sakka, Samah Mohammed Fahim – English Language Teaching, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching some self-regulated strategies to Egyptian university students on improving their speaking proficiency and reducing their speaking anxiety. The design of the study was a one group pre-posttest quasi experimental design. Forty 3rd- year EFL university students were selected to form the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Yunus, Melor Md; Salehi, Hadi; Amini, Mahdi – English Language Teaching, 2016
In recent years, a great number of attempts have been made on teachers' cognition with the aim of understanding the complications reinforcing the teachers' cognitions and their classroom practices. Such studies shed light on how teachers' cognitions expand over time and how they are reflected in their classroom practices. The aim of the present…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction
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Alraddadi, Budoor Muslim – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study aimed to explore the effects of explicit teaching on the acquisition of spoken discourse markers (DMs) on EFL learners' presentation production. It also aimed to measure the impact of two different treatments on the acquisition of a set of DMs. This study is an experimental study and focuses on the overall production of spoken…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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El-Hariri, Yasmin – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Constituting a more specific form of online collaboration, eTandem Language Learning (eTLL) shows great potential for non-formal, self-directed language learning. Research in this field, particularly regarding task design, is still scarce. Focusing on their beliefs and attitudes, this article examines what learners think about how…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Abad, José Vicente; Alzate, Paula Andrea – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2016
This article presents the results of an inter-institutional research study that assessed the impact of strategies instruction on students' preparation for and performance in oral exams. Two teacher-researchers at different universities trained 26 students in their respective B1-English-level courses in using language learning strategies. The study…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chaves, Orlando; Fernandez, Alejandro – HOW, 2016
This article reports an action-research project aimed at designing, applying, and assessing a didactic sequence for teaching English as a foreign language in the first grade of a public school in Cali. The article comprises the context, reasons that justified the research, theoretical support, methodology, and results, analyzed through descriptive…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Language Proficiency
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Drood, Pooya; Asl, Hanieh Davatgari – English Language Teaching, 2016
The ways in which task in classrooms has developed and proceeded have receive great attention in the field of language teaching and learning in the sense that they draw attention of learners to the competing features such as accuracy, fluency, and complexity. English audiovisual and audio recorded materials have been widely used by teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Cunningham, D. Joseph – Modern Language Journal, 2016
The pairing of telecollaboration and focused instruction can lead to measurable gains in second language learners' pragmatic competence (Belz & Vyatkina, 2005, 2008; Vyatkina & Belz, 2006). This article examines speech act production in telecollaborative exchange, focusing on the requesting behavior of American learners of German for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Howell, Penny B.; Vidrio Magaña, Margarita – TESOL Journal, 2016
This case study draws on Gee's (1989) "D/discourse theory" to investigate English learners' (ELs') perspectives regarding Accountable Talk (AT)--a structured, discourse-intensive instructional approach--after a yearlong implementation in three content-based (mathematics) middle school classrooms. Interviews with 21 ELs (3 Advanced…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, English Language Learners, Student Attitudes, Accountability
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