Category: Language Learning and Teaching
ESL Functions, Purposes, & Didactic Implications: A Grounded Theory on Codeswitching Linguistic Phenomenon
This article fittingly considered the descriptive-correlational method of research to delineate written and oral code-switching prevalence in discourse of 80% …
Developing Students’ Academic Writing Identity through Alternative Genres
Two recent assignments in East Asian Studies courses at a large public university suggest the benefits of introducing students to …
Self-directed Language Learning: Which Tasks and Tools Are Most Effective for Promoting Reflection on Learning?
This presentation explores how learners majoring in English language at a university in Japan planned, managed, and reflected on their …
Shaping Self-awareness, Introspection and Resilience: Why Language Learners Need Training in Reflective Writing
Committing to language learning is an emotional endeavour (Dewaele, 2015) that requires individuals to make a staggering number of decisions …
L2 WTC and Relatedness in Social Online Classrooms: Findings from a Longitudinal Action Research Project in a Japanese University Classroom
Synchronous, video-mediated online classrooms offer a range of challenges that do not exist in traditional, face-to-face classrooms in terms of …
Reflection in Language Learning: An Institutional Integration Project
Reflection on language learning is when language learners become more aware of their abilities, strategy use, and task performance by …
Encouraging Reflection on Speaking Performance in Class: Findings and Suggestions
This presentation will provide a recount from the beginning stages of a research project which began in September 2018 until …
Lessons Learned From Teaching Japanese for Medical Purposes to International Students
This work shows the lessons learned from the online course on Basic Medical Japanese for international students conducted between May …
Preparing Future Educators to Support the Language Needs of All Students
Due to the increasing number of English as a Second Language (ESL) in United States classrooms, educators in higher education …
Gammified Tools in the Development of Communicative Production in Remote EFL Learning
One of the most critical challenges of Foreign Language teaching is developing students' oral communicative competences, enhancing productive skills, and …
Evaluating Year One University English Course Material in Taiwan
Language textbooks play a major role in language teaching and learning, providing a structured approach to teaching and learning (Tomlinson, …
Teaching Burmese as a Foreign Language: A Case Study
The development of Myanmar as a country has led to an increased interest from foreign NGOs, businesses, labourers and professionals …
Mediating Language Learning in Virtual Exchanges: The Role of the Teacher in Institutional Integrated Teletandem
Virtual exchange is an approach to teaching and learning in which groups of learners from different countries work virtually and …
Using Prosodic Notations to Help Adult ESL Learners Read Fluently
Prosody is essential for developing reading fluency (Grabe, 2010; Rasinski, 2012). The goal of this study is to examine whether …
Contribution of General and Academic Vocabulary Size to Chinese L2 Learners Academic Speaking Ability
An emerging number of empirical studies have found vocabulary size is closely related to L2 learner’s general speaking ability. However, …
The Poetry Box: A Student Centered Constructivist Approach to Poetry Lessons in Secondary Education
Poetry has often been compared to abstract paintings over the years. However, it doesn’t mean poetry composition lessons have to …
Implementation of an Integrated Program of English and Character Education in an EFL Classroom
Character Education is usually reflecting some good values in order to empower students to have a better development of individual …
The Ratios of CEFR-J vocabulary Usage Compared with GSL and AWL in Elementary EFL Classrooms and Its Implications
This is a corpus-based study using an elementary English classroom corpus to examine a) the ratios of vocabulary usage of …
Compiling Learner Corpora on Four Types of Common Errors Made by Chinese EFL Students
A number of EFL studies have been conducted in China to analyze different types of common lexico-grammatical mistakes made by …
The Advantages of Using Image-schematic Animation in Teaching English Prepositions
In recent years, many researchers have examined how second and foreign language learners benefit from cognitive linguistics insights, especially in …
How the ‘Productive Failure’ Instructional Design Encapsulates the ‘Active Learning’ Essence of Eliciting L2 Output Using the ‘Information Gap’ Construct
Productive failure' (Kapur, 2015) is an instructional design based on the contrast between learners’ intuitive assumptions and proven solutions to …
Comparative Review of the Foreign Language Learning History of a Japanese and a Flemish-Dutch Native Speaker
How we learn a foreign (second, third, fourth, ...) language contains diverse approaches. It depends on, to the great extent, …
Applying Cooperative Development in Exploring College English Teaching in a Large Class Format
Large class size as a growing phenomenon in developing countries is closely related to two reasons: initiatives to achieve universal …
A Snapshot of e-learning: Vocabulary Retention in Academically-advantaged Background
Vocabulary is significant to academic achievement. Instructional curricula are usually designed to include vocabulary teaching, learning, and assessment to help …
Valuing Diversity: Content based EFL Teacher Training
This paper presents a decade of collaborative teaching between two Israeli lecturers: one, a Palestinian-Moslem from Nazareth, the other, a …
A Proposal to Develop Explicit Grammar Knowledge as an Expansion of the Presentation Stage in the Three P’s Framework
From a theoretical point of view in second language learning, it is crucial to understand the importance of explicit knowledge …