TESOL initial teacher training and TESOL curriculum goals: making the connection [PDF]
APEC countries represent , in TESOL terms, two very different groups. Firstly there are the English L1 countries (US, Canada, Australia, NZ) where the English proficiency of the majority can be taken for granted and where English needs to be taught only ...
Wedell, M.
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Research Studies in Second Language Writing and in Contrastive Rhetoric [PDF]
, 2001 The major aim of this article is to review studies of second language writing. The first part deals mainly with the process of writing in the second and first languages. The second part concerns contrastive rhetoric.
Cahyono, B. Y. (Bambang)
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Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence in an English‐Medium University in Japan
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 321-348, March 2026.Abstract Policymakers in Japan have high expectations for English‐medium instruction (EMI) as an effective educational model for developing global human resources. EMI is expected to promote students' English proficiency, content knowledge, and intercultural skills. However, longitudinal studies measuring the actual results of EMI are scarce.
Naoko Taguchi
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Turkish Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions of Native-Speakerism
Sakarya University Journal of Education, 2019 This qualitative study explores the opinions of 23 preservice teacherson native-speakerism in the English language teaching (ELT) profession. Theparticipants were asked to respond to a prompt in writing, with reference tothe situation in Turkey.
Sibel Tatar
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A Study of Patterns of Participation of Arnhem Land Aboriginal Students in non-Aboriginal Urban Secondary School [PDF]
, 1996 Aboriginal students are identified as one of the groups most at risk in Australia today. They have low levels of achievement and school retention coupled with high levels of failure, absenteeism and behaviour problems.
Ashton-Hay, Sally
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Teaching Inequality: A study of gender identity in EFL Textbooks [PDF]
, 2015 A command of English is recognised as vital for immigrants to Britain. Textbooks are used widely in learning the language but they cannot be assumed to be value free.
Musty, Nicholas
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Space and Culture, India, 2022 Manjira Chowdhury, MPhil, M.A in Applied Linguistics
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Exploring ‘unknown worlds’: The lives and careers of non-native speaking teachers of English in Asia [PDF]
, 2007 It is a decade since Richards remarked that “How the teacher believes, thinks, acts and reacts is central to educational endeavour, but about the EFL (English as a foreign language) language teacher we know almost nothing” (1997:243), going on to suggest
Hayes, David
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Social identity and parallel text dynamics in the reporting of educational action research [PDF]
This paper focuses on textual issues in the reporting of action research. There exists a large body of text-analytical work on research reports from various fields, examining for example the organisation and rhetorical purpose of research articles or ...
Wharton, Sue
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The Pedagogy of Teaching English to Young Learners: Implications for Teacher Education [PDF]
, 2017 EYL (English for Young Learners) is a global phenomenon, and yet research is laden with reports suggesting teachers' difficulty in developing appropriate EYL pedagogy (e.g. Butler, 2015; Copland, Garton & Burns 2014; Emery, 2012; Garton, Copland &
Zein, S. (Subhan)
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