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"Writing to Learn or Learning to Write". A Critical Review of "English as a Foreign Language" (EFL) Teaching Practices in Writing in Saudi Universiti…

2020

Developing proficiency in English writing has always been a challenge for L2 learners in general and Saudi learners in particular. Despite the widespread presence of English departments as a result of the sharp rise of Saudi universities in the previous decade, the numbers of outcomes or achievements in terms of skills are very discouraging. This paper aims to study this issue closely by investigating the most crucial elements that are likely to explain this weakness by reviewing the related empirical and theoretical studies in the Saudi context. This paper also aims to present to researchers a quick reference as to how English writing skills have evolved in Saudi Arabia in the recent past,…

teaching practiceslcsh:LC8-6691:CIENCIAS TECNOLÓGICAS [UNESCO]lcsh:Special aspects of educationApplied MathematicsGeneral MathematicseflEnglish as a foreign languageContext (language use)English languagel2UNESCO::CIENCIAS TECNOLÓGICASlcsh:Education (General)lcsh:LB5-3640Sharp risewiritinglcsh:Theory and practice of educationWriting skillsMathematics educationL2 learnersComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONSociologylcsh:L7-991saudi learners
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Teacher attitudes and use of stories and storytelling in Finnish foreign language education

2016

Tarinat ja tarinankerronta ovat keskeisiä käsitteitä kielen tutkimuksessa ja kielten ilmenemisessä jokapäiväisessä elämässä. Rakenteena tarinat näkyvät paitsi kulttuurissamme ja historiassamme, myös sosiaalisissa kanssakäymisissämme ja siinä miten jäsennämme tietoa. Tarinoilla ja tarinankerronalla on myös perinteisesti ollut keskeinen rooli opetuksessa jossa niiden käytön on havaittu tuovan monia hyötyjä. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus on selvittää kuinka tämä teoreettinen tietämyksemme tarinoiden hyödyistä opetuskontekstissa heijastuu käytännön toimintaan ja ajatteluun suomalaisten vieraiden kielten opettajien keskuudessa. Kyselylomake lähetettiin sähköpostin välityksellä 25:lle vieraankielen…

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Teaching classic put to the test: Do tongue twisters work for L2 pronunciation?

2023

Tongue twisters are a controversial pronunciation teaching classic. Whereas some see tongue twisters difficult and frustrating for learners, others find them fun and motivating. This study was inspired by these opposing views and the fact that previous studies have failed to offer convincing proof of whether this technique works for L2 pronunciation learning. This study approaches the question with a teaching experiment. Participants were 28 learners of L2 Swedish. Half of them trained with tongue twisters and half with authentic sentences. Training focussed on two sounds typically difficult for the learners, who were tested before and after the training period. Further, the participants we…

teachingexperimenttoinen kielikieli ja kieletLinguistics and Languagekieltenopetusruotsin kieliL2 Swedishääntäminentongue twisterslanguage learningruotsi toisena kielenäpronunciation learningteaching methodsvieraat kieletForeign Language Annals
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The Use of Multimodal Resources by Technical Managers and Their Peers in Meetings Using English as the Business Lingua Franca

2020

Background: Engineers increasingly work and advance their careers in international business settings. As technical managers, they need management and technical skills when working with different stakeholders with whom they may not share a common first language. Studies have revealed that informal oral communication skills are of prime importance for global engineers who face challenges in building shared meaning and formulating clear messages in meetings with non-native speakers of English. This article proposes that studying the use of multimodal resources (spoken language, gaze, gestures, and objects) in meetings can unpack how work tasks are accomplished in business through different com…

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L2 English questions

2014

The research on the amount and the types of corrective feedback beneficial for learning a second or foreign language has produced inconsistent results. Interestingly, studying corrective feedback from the perspective of a sociocultural theory of learning has the potential to resolve these differences although so far, these studies have been largely qualitative. The present study attempts to contribute to the existing research on corrective feedback from this perspective by comparing the effects of two types of automated corrective feedback on learning: adaptive feedback (i.e., feedback incrementally adapting to learners’ abilities by becoming more explicit and detailed) and knowledge of res…

testing/assessment second language (l2) learning sociocultural theory Feedback Computer-assisted language learningsociocultural theorycomputer-assisted language learningassessmentpalautesecond language learningL2testausArticle
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Oppikirja eläköön! : teoreettisia ja käytännön näkökohtia kielten oppimateriaalien uudistamiseen

2009

textbook developmenttextbook researchoppiminenoppikirjatlanguage processingsaksan kielisecond language learningkieletopetusoppimateriaali
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Presentation of the English passive in four Finnish upper secondary school EFL textbooks

2013

Kieliopin opettaminen on alusta alkaen ollut keskeinen osa nykyaikaista vieraiden kielten opetusta. Mielipiteitä siitä, kuinka kielioppi määritellään, kuinka sitä tulee opettaa ja onko sen opettaminen ylipäätään tarpeen, on esitetty lukemattomia. Tässä tutkielmassa on omaksuttu Thornburyn (1991:1) määritelmä kieliopista tietyn kielen erilaisten mahdollisten rakenteiden ja muotojen tutkimuksena. Kieliopin opetuksen historiaa tarkastellaan kolmen keskeisen vaiheen kautta. Tutkielmassani tarkastellaan neljän suomalaisen lukiotason A1-englannin oppikirjan osioita, joissa käsitellään passiivia. Tavoitteena on ollut löytää yhtäläisyyksiä ja eroja tavoissa, joilla passiivi esitellään opiskelijoill…

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Język prawno-administracyjny okresu dwudziestolecia międzywojennego

2020

The object of this sketch is the legal and administrative Polish language of the interwar period, that is the time of the Second Polish Republic. Regaining the statehood after one and a half century of the Partitions marked signifi cant transformations in the history of the nation and the society, the return of the Polish language to offi ces, the gradual standardisation of the language of administration, unifi cation and codifi cation of law. The political system of the Second Polish Republic evolved. The system of parliamentary democracy, adopted in 1919 and established in the March Constitution, transformed gradually, in particular after the May Coup in 1926, into the authoritarian syste…

texts of the Constitutionlanguage of the law and administrationPolish language of the interwar periodlexisPoradnik Jezykowy
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"I could give up many things but not that" : teachers' and pupils' experiences of using the European Language Portfolio in assessment

2015

Arviointi on olennainen osa opetusta ja oppimista kouluissa. Kielitaidon arviointiin vaikuttavat käsitykset kielitaidosta ja aikojen saatossa kielitaidon arviointi on muuttunut lähes mekaanisesta kielitaidon osa-alueiden mittaamisesta monipuolisempaan kielenkäytön arviointiin (ks. esim. Rea-Dickins 2012: 12). Perinteisen kielitaidon testauksen juuret ovat kuitenkin yhä syvällä arviointikulttuurissamme ja vasta viime vuosikymmeninä on alettu painottaa testeille vaihtoehtoisten arviointimetodien tärkeyttä. Johtava ajatus nykypäivän kouluarvioinnissa on, että kaiken arvioinnin tulisi edistää oppimista. Lisäksi oppilaiden tulisi olla aktiivisesti osallisina arvioinnissa. Yksi monipuolinen työka…

the European Language PortfolioEurooppalainen kielisalkkukielitaitolanguage assessmentopettajatteacher and student perceptionsenglannin kieliarviointioppilaatassessment for learning
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Theatre as a Communicative Strategy for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Primary Education Undergraduates: A Pedagogical Experience

2020

espanolComo profesores de lenguas estamos constantemente tratando de establecer un ambiente apropiado para que las cuatro destrezas se desarrollen plenamente a traves de actividades o ejercicios que implican un estimulo, ya que un idioma extranjero se aprende mas facilmente cuando los elementos utilizados para ensenar son mas atractivos. El teatro puede desempenar este papel, ya que es un genero educativo que se ha explorado para la ensenanza de lenguas desde el desarrollo del Enfoque Comunicativo. El proposito de este articulo, por tanto, es en primer lugar, examinar la efectividad del teatro en general con referencia a los numerosos argumentos a favor de la utilizacion de esta herramienta…

theatre as a didactic tool in the classroomtask-based learningForeign languageTeaching englishPrimary educationComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONSociologylcsh:L7-991Humanitiesenglish as a foreign languageundergraduate studentslcsh:Education (General)Ikastorratza.e-Revista de Didáctica
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