Framed in action research, the authors investigated perceptions and experiences of a cohort student-teachers as they learned about explored for first time teacher research self-contained module part four-year pre-service or initial English language education (IELTE) programme southern Argentina. The module, ‘Research Language Teaching’, ran from March–November 2018. It was led by educator based...

This case study evaluates the characteristics of classroom speech found in classes taught by non-native elementary school English language instructors in Japan using corpora compiled by the authors. A corpus of spoken language was compiled from the lessons using XML tagging that marked speaker turns, language use, and classroom interaction modes. We then performed quantitative analyses on both ...

background and purpose: the fact that who is more qualified to teach the emp (english for medical purposes) courses has long been the cause of argument between the heads of language departments (lds) on one side and those of discipline-specific departments(dsds) on the other side. this research was conducted to study the views of both sides as well as those of students in some emp english class...

Is technology a tool for language learning, or is language learning a tool with which people can access technology? This article suggests that both language and technology are tools for individual and societal development. The article introduces a developmental approach to integrating technology in language education, based on consideration of both product and process. It then illustrates these...

This paper reports the result of a study that aimed to identify the problems with oral English skills of ESL (English as a second language) students at a tertiary teacher training institution in Hong Kong. The study, by way of semi-structured interview, addresses the gap in our understanding of the difficulties ESL students encountered in their oral English development in the context of a Bache...

anguage assessment literacy (LAL), mainly defined as knowledge and skills of language assessment, in the last two decades, has started to receive the attention it deserves. As one of the significant findings, based on a plethora of research, many second language (L2) teachers have been indicated to be professionally incompetent in terms of LAL. To investigate the status of LAL among Ira...