Scott, Kristina Rohde, Leigh
Published in
Open Education Studies
Student engagement is a complex measurement that can be viewed through behavioral, emotional, and cognitive constructs. Authentic intellectual engagement requires more than task compliance and requires teachers to make decisions and moves to promote engagement. Pre-service teachers need to have these teacher decisions deconstructed and explicitly r...
Ticak, Sebastian Johansen, Simeon
This paper examines the effects of explicit morphology instruction on English vocabulary acquisition and morphological awareness in a Swedish L2 secondary school context. The purpose of this paper was to research if explicit morphology instruction affects students’ vocabulary acquisition and morphological awareness. The research questions for this ...
Smith, Fanny Westerlund, Frida
The aim of this study is to reach profound knowledge about reading comprehension strategies that teachers in grade 1–3 use in their reading instruction classes. The relevance of the study is motivated due to Swedish students’ declining results at the latest PISA examination and the lack of Swedish studies regarding grade 1–3. With the qualitative r...
Gyurka, Noémi Piukovics, Ágnes
Pronunciation teaching is gaining more and more recognition in international contexts, however, empirical research concerning pronunciation teaching is underrepresented in the Hungarian educational context. While there are a few studies that briefly touch upon the learners’ attitudes towards pronunciation, there is limited data concerning the ways ...
Baker, Scott K Kennedy, Patrick C Richards, Dean Nelson, Nancy J Fien, Hank Doabler, Christian T
Published in
Journal of learning disabilities
More than two-thirds of middle school students do not read proficiently. Research has shown that targeted interventions using explicit instruction methods can improve reading outcomes for struggling readers. A central feature of explicit instruction is the systematic implementation of instructional interactions, but it is not clear what specific in...
Zhang, Lu Zhang, Lawrence Jun Xu, Ting Sophia
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Scholars have underscored the importance of raising students’ awareness and understanding of stance-taking in academic writing. However, studies on the effects of the pedagogical intervention are just a few. To strengthen this line of inquiry, this paper reports on an intervention study with explicit instruction of stance metalanguage based on the ...
Peng, Yingying Barrot, Jessie S.
Recent findings have provided growing evidence in support of process-genre-oriented writing pedagogy. However, these types of approaches tended to place form-focused instruction (FFI) in the background, particularly the explicit teaching of grammar (i.e., isolated FFI). As such, limited improvement in writing accuracy was reported by recent studies...
Huang, Nan
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Successful interaction in the target language requires L2 learners to use and understand the grammatically correct language. At the same time, the language used is expected to produce socioculturally appropriate utterances that it refers to their Pragmatic competence. The latter entails acquiring pragmatic competence, which has proved to be very ch...
Estaji, Masoomeh Zhaleh, Kiyana
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
This mixed methods research study investigated if explicit instruction could affect EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices of classroom justice considering its three-dimensional conceptualization based on the social psychology theories of justice, encompassing the distributive, interactional, and procedural justice. To this end, 77 Iranian English...
Hu, Guangwei Reyes Pérez, Miller
Extant research has highlighted the essentiality of grammatical metaphor (GM) as a linguistic resource in academic writing. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study investigated the relationship between explicit instruction in nominalisation as one type of GM and ESL learners’ mastery of this key resource. Adopting a true experi...
