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Professional Content-Based Courses for Novice Language Learning
Most language programs at colleges and universities across the United States have their greatest impact through the general education degree...
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Leveraging Language for Specific Purposes as a Motivating Factor for World Language Study
The United States (US) Military Academy at West Point is a 4-year, undergraduate institution generally recognized for its strong engineering...
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Professional Development in Phonological Awareness for Early Childhood Educators in Low-Income, Urban Classrooms: A Pilot Study Examining Dosage Effects
Providing high-quality literacy instruction in early childhood may positively affect the long-term outcomes of children from disadvantaged...
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Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Identity and Representations of English as a Foreign Language: Toward a Dominant Language (Teaching) Constellation?
This chapter describes and analyses EFL student teachers’ representations of EFL teaching and their identity as teachers by resorting to visual...
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Development of an English for Research Purposes Program for STEM Graduate Students
A “guerilla” needs analysis was conducted to define the language needs, wants, and lacks of students at a Japanese national graduate institution for...
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Mining culture from professional discourse: a lexicon-based hybrid method
Professional discourse is a culturally situated construct. However, due to methodological constrains, culture as a discourse determinant revealed by...
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Prioritizing Horizontal Spoken Discourse in Teaching English for Medical Purposes
In this chapter, the author argues that, in the field of spoken medical discourse, teaching horizontal discourses (peer-peer,...
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Dental Internet Resources in Teaching Specialty Language Within Russian as a Foreign Language Course
The article is devoted to educational application of dental Internet resources in teaching the specialty language within Russian as a foreign...
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Unit 1: The Nature and Purposes of Language as Communication
Tasks to raise awareness of the different ways in which language is used in everyday contexts and some specific settings.
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Contextualizing and Adapting Teacher Education and Professional Development
In the past two decades, the influence of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in language teaching has significantly expanded. In parallel...
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Reimagining Education Is Dead. Long Live Reimagining Education! New Technological Innovations in Second Language Teacher Education and Professional Development
Amid a hermeneutic phenomenology steeped in an iterative problem-solving process that seeks to foster technological innovations in second language...
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The Language Certificate: Encouraging Foreign Language Proficiency for All University Students
Majoring (or minoring) in a foreign language has long been the standard way for students to have their proficiency recognized by the university. This...
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CALL Teacher Education and Professional Development: Contextual Challenges in Under-Represented Contexts
This chapter aimed to identify the key literature on the contextual challenges in under-represented contexts related to CALL teacher education and...
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Third Tip: Find Self-Generated Opportunities for Professional Development
The third tip, offered in this chapter, shifts the focus away from enhancing student learning, towards the development of opportunities for...
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When There Is a Language Issue
This chapter deals with language difficulties in emergency calls due to the fact that the caller is not a speaker of the call-taker’s language and...
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Language and Law
Law serves as the symbol of national power and a tool for maintaining a stable society. Laws are coded in languages and concepts that are used to...
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MADE in Teacher Education and Professional Development
Although many teacher education programs around the world are currently undergoing a shift to a multilingual orientation, it is often done on a...
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Technology + Pedagogy in EFL Virtual Classrooms: University Teachers’ Professional Needs on Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, online learning has raised a great deal of excitement as higher education has moved to complete online delivery...
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Investigating EFL Teacher’s Professional Identities in Flipped Learning Classroom Through Accountability-Focused Evaluations
Technology-enhanced methods are widespread around the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of these favorite methods is flipped learning (FL)...