Browsing by Subject "ESL"

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    Analysis of pragmatic items in an ESL online adaptive placement test
    (2019-01-21) Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa; Martín Marchante, Beatriz
    The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence failures in pragmatic items of an online adaptive placement test taken by a group of 34 Spanish students in their first year at university. A preceding analysis (Carrió & Martín, 2016) showed the type of personal factors, such as lack of vocabula ry, that caused the exam takers failures in the pragmatic part of the test according to their own perception. In this paper, we go deeper and analyze those specific items holding higher percentage of failures so that we can reach some conclusions about its content validity and also about the degree of relationship between these and the pragmatic categories dealt with in the most relevant research carried out in the field of pragmalinguistic testing and assessment.
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    Sustained content language teaching: insights from an ESL and EFL course.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Reynolds, Barry Lee; Shieh, Jin-Jy; Ding, Chen; Ha, Xuan Van
    Instructional settings (English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL)) may provide different opportunities for learners’ meaningful language use. This qualitative study was designed to shed light on this issue. The data included multiple sources collected from a sustained content gastronomy language course taught in an American ESL and a Taiwanese EFL context. Findings revealed that various factors (e.g., themes, environment, and learners) contributed to learners from both contexts meeting course goals. The findings further indicate that it is not the ESL/EFL context but instead using a sustained content language teaching approach that incorporates theme-based instruction and dynamic units that ensures learners are provided opportunities for meaningful and purposeful language use.