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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Language instructors"”.
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Preservice Teacher Education Program at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center on the Foreign Language Teaching Beliefs of Preservice Language Instructors
<p>Preservice foreign-language teachers are adults with well-established beliefs. They start teacher-education programs with traditional beliefs about language teaching reflecting their own experiences. The field of foreign-language teaching, however, underwent a paradigm shift from grammar-based …
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The benefits of intercultural interactions: a position paper on the effects of study abroad and intercultural competence on pre-service and active teachers of ESL
… connection between immersion programs, second language acquisition, intercultural awareness, and the pre-service English as a Second Language instructors' ability to provide interculturally aware TESL education to their language learners. A review of the literature connected to intercultural …
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World Language Teachers' Preparation, Beliefs, and Instruction in Central Florida
… to investigate: (1) the extent to which world instructors report using specific communicative instructional strategies; (2) the difference between instructional strategies used by ESL only instructors, versus instructors of ESL and foreign languages, or instructors of only foreign languages; …
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The Use of Computer-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Teaching: An Ethnographically - Oriented Study (Naturalistic, Evaluation, Policy, Comparative, Ethnology)
… and the actual teaching practices of foreign language instructors. Four language teachers from two large high schools in the suburbs of Chicago agreed to participate in the study. By studying two schools with similar populations it was possible to compare the schools in terms of their written …
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Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning
… been found to dominate multiliteracies second language instruction, often at the expense of activities that involve conceptualizing, analyzing, and applying. Recent analyses and critiques of the multiliteracies framework reveal several implications of this shortcoming, including the tendency to …
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The Computer Integration Into the Efl Instruction in Indonesia: An Analysis of Two University Instructors in Integrating Computer Technology Into Elf Instruction to Encourage Students' Language Learning Engagement
… been popular for teaching English as a foreign language in non-English speaking countries. This case study explored the way language instructors designed and implemented computer-based instruction so that students are engaged in English language learning. This study explored the beliefs, …
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The relationship between ethnocentrism and achievement in beginning learners of French as a foreign language
… War. Given this rise in ethnocentrism, foreign language instructors may be motivated to know if their students' identification with an ingroup {The United States) influences their ability to perform well in a foreign language classroom. Thus, this study investigates the relationship between …
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How to use social networking sites as a tool to support Spanish language teaching for Spanish elementary levels courses at the university level
… guidelines for the use of SNSs to support language teaching activities. To reach that objective, this research starts with a literature review that discusses SNSs and their impact on language use, education, and language teaching. In the research methodology, quantitative and qualitative …
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The Digital Language Divide: Accessibility and Usability of Icelandic Public Digital Services for Foreign-Born Residents
… experience public digital services and how language, interface design, and access mechanisms influence usability, autonomy, and institutional trust. Although Iceland has developed extensive digital government infrastructure, core platforms such as Ísland.is, Skatturinn.is, and Heilsuvera.is …
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The relevance of teachers' non-English oral proficiency to their metalinguistic and register awareness of English
… limited or no literacy skills in a non-English language promoted native English-speaking (NES) and nonnative English-speaking (NNES) English language teachers' metalinguistic and register awareness of English. Teachers were classified as Truly Bilingual (TBL) if they possessed literacy skills in …
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Hedging in the multidisciplinary postgraduate theses of students in a Ghanaian University
… in students’ academic writing could thus impede language instructors’ efforts to determine how appro-priately novice writers who happen to be students, employ caution in the making of their claims. There is minimal research on hedging in the Ghanaian context, therefore, the aim of the study was …
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PROGRAM EVALUATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN JAPAN
Program evaluation in the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) has a history dating from the 1960's. The focus of previous program evaluations has been on language achievement at the end of the program of study (Lynch, 1996). …
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Designing a teacher orientation course for English as a foreign language faculty at Saudi Arabian universities: the case of a private university in Riyadh
This study took place at an English language Centre (Foundation Institute at a university) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to address the problem of English instructors’ attrition. After studying the related literature, that connects the faculty attrition to the implementation of a purpose-made faculty …
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The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia
… improve international English as an Additional Language (EAL) students’ proficiency has been a cause of significant concern and debate among scholars and education specialists. Scholars in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have paid some attention to the role that lexical chunks can …
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Strengthening Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada: Learning from Experiences in Saskatoon
… in Saskatoon, the federally sponsored program Language Instruction to Newcomers to Canada (LINC) has also been in demand. The purpose of this study was to establish ways in which LINC service providers in Saskatoon can support new ESL LINC instructors to excel in their careers. This study …
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Challenging Intersectional Racism: A Women of Colour Feminist Account of Chinese Teachers in the Private ELT Industry
… (*bishi lian* or 鄙视链) in China’s private English language teaching (ELT) industry. This research examines the lived experiences of 18 Chinese women who teach English in China alongside foreign White teachers. They reported being subjected to this hierarchical chain established through differences …