Repair Practices by Japanese Third-Age Learners in Communicative Lessons Online

Collaborative Inquiry Instruction Builds Junior High School Oral Communication Proficiency

General Background Inquiry-Based Learning provides a student-centered framework that promotes active knowledge construction and verbal practice. Specific Background Secondary education learners frequently experience anxiety and restricted vocabulary during English dialogues due to conventional teacher-centered instruct...

Enhancing University Students’ Speaking Skills Through Debate-Based Instruction: A Classroom Action Research Study

The study aims to explore the effectiveness of debate activities as an instructional method for improving the speaking competencies of non-English major students in a Vietnamese university context, addressing the gap in process-oriented research on debate-based instruction in Vietnamese tertiary EFL contexts. The study...

Collaborative work for the development of oral proficiency: experiences in community service

The objective of this study is to analyze how collaborative work activities develop the oral proficiency of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners within a university community service context. A mixed-methods approach was applied, involving a sample of 48 students. For data collection, we applied the Cambridge A...

Comparison of conventional approaches and the relationship between students’ academic and communicative achievement and communicative language instruction

This study is an investigation into the effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach compared to traditional methods on academic achievement and communicative achievement of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners within Iraqi context. CLT differs from traditional instructional methods that typi...

Exploring teachers’ lived experiences in grammar instruction for intermediate learners: Challenges, strategies, and pedagogical implications

This study explored the lived experiences of intermediate teachers in teaching grammar, focusing on the challenges they encountered and the strategies they employed to support learners. Using a phenomenological research design, data were collected from fifteen (15) teacher-respondents through open-ended survey question...

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching