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Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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Teacher cognition and the teaching of EFL reading in Norwegian upper primary classrooms
This article is about a qualitative study of teacher cognition and the teaching of EFL reading in Norwegian upper primary classrooms. Teacher cognition, defined by Borg (2003, p.81) as ‘what teachers think, know, and believe and the relationships of ...
Trine Mathiesen Gilje
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Japanese students’ EFL experience: the role of the student's voice [PDF]
Japanese students are often said to have little success in developing communicative skills in a foreign language. This is evident from Japanese media, researchers in education, public concern, and from government policy documents.
SHIMAZU, SHIGEKO
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Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz +1 more
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Mother Tongue: Multilingual Approach to Acquisition [PDF]
The article presents the results of the impact of mother tongues on the learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) by students at the University of Kinshasa’s communication department.
Claude Wakenge
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Throughout much of the history of research into second language acquisition (SLA), the role of learners’ first language (L1) has been a hotly debated issue. Prodromou (2000) refers to the mother tongue as a ‘skeleton in the closet’, while Gabrielatos (2001) calls it a ‘bone of contention’.
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Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
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Designing Feedback and Assessment for GenAI‐Assisted Digital Multimodal Composition in L2
Abstract The rapidly evolving use of GenAI leads to a crucial need for new approaches to instruction and assessment of language skills in DMC tasks. The study adopted a convergent mixed‐methods design within an 11‐week action research framework. The study was conducted with 12 Turkish tertiary‐level L2 learners based on a process‐genre pedagogy to ...
Sibel Söğüt +2 more
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Deveoping Dyslexia-Friendly EFL Classrooms In Greece:The Teachers’ Perspective
This chapter draws from a wider study which investigated the process of developing inclusive classrooms for dyslexic primary pupils who learn English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in state schools in Greece.
Reraki, Maria
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Assessment of Digital Multimodal Composing: Toward Ethical and Responsible Use of Generative AI
Abstract This Research Issues paper outlines the theoretical and practical foundations for assessing GenAI‐mediated DMC, with a particular focus on frameworks for ethical authorship, diverse assessment approaches and methods, and flexible quality criteria and rubrics.
Dong‐shin Shin +2 more
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