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The aim of this study is to investigate how teachers interpret the reading strategies in the revised English as aSecond Language (ESL) syllabus from 2021, and what advantages and disadvantages they see with the syllabuswhen they teach reading strategies. Previous studies suggest that it is beneficial to teach reading strategies in school.The revised ESL syllabus for upper secondary in Sweden mentions reading strategies but gives no definition orinstruction, making it the teachers’ responsibility to choose an interpretation. However, there is not much researchon the interpretation of reading strategies in ESL in a Swedish context nor in upper secondary school.The study was made through interviews, which where analysed thematically, and a survey, where univariate analysiswas used. The results showed that most teachers were confident using and explaining the strategies, but ofteninterpreted them in different ways. The results also showed that while most teachers think the phrasing in thesyllabus is clear, there are some ambiguities. Most teachers also said they had the resources they needed, but somedidactic resources were mentioned as lacking by some.Conclusions from these results are: that the revised ESL syllabus provides room for interpretation and gives teachersautonomy which they see as positive; that the differences in strategy interpretation can affect the students’ right toequal education; that there are strategies of which teachers are unsure; and that the lack of some resources is anobstacle in the implementation of the syllabus and the teaching of reading strategies. Implications of this thesis arethat policy makers can use it in their development of future educational policy documents, and that teachers can useit to educate themselves on their role in interpreting the syllabus in their work.

[ES] La adquisición de vocabulario es uno de los principales desafíos para los estudiantes de idiomas y la falta de un vocabulario adecuado es el primer impedimento para una comunicación exitosa. A través de una revisión de la literatura sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de vocabulario se identificó una brecha importante; la mayor parte de la investigación se lleva a cabo en condiciones controladas. Existe la necesidad de comprender la influencia de la enseñanza del vocabulario en el entorno real del aula. Este estudio examina específicamente la influencia de metodologías de enseñanza de vocabulario en el aula. Este estudio se realizó en una universidad privada con 37 participantes en un estudio piloto y 166 en el estudio principal, ambos divididos en grupos de control y experimentales utilizando un diseño de pretest-postest para analizar la influencia de la instrucción de vocabulario explícito en las clases. El conocimiento del vocabulario se evaluó antes y después de las intervenciones con una versión adaptada de la Escala de conocimiento del vocabulario (VKS por sus siglas en inglés) (Paribakht y Wesche, 1993). Esta investigación constó de dos fases. En primer lugar, se evaluó en un estudio piloto la instrucción de vocabulario explícito a través de la exposición visual al vocabulario objetivo con traducción al español y entrada auditiva, esta etapa se centró en el primer paso para el aprendizaje de vocabulario mencionado por Nation (2013): Prestar atención a las palabras. Los resultados obtenidos del estudio piloto no presentaron diferencias significativas entre el grupo control y el experimental. Por lo tanto, se decidió incluir una actividad adicional para mejorar el aprendizaje de vocabulario. En la segunda fase, que incluyó a 166 estudiantes, empleó una actividad de vocabulario basada en la web, así como la exposición visual. Esto se introdujo para evocar el segundo paso del aprendizaje de vocabulario: Recuperación. Esta metodología brindó oportunidades para que los participantes exploraran el vocabulario con una nueva herramienta de aprendizaje; permitiendo a los estudiantes no solo notar el vocabulario clave, sino también recuperarlo. Los resultados del estudio principal fueron alentadores, el grupo experimental superó al grupo de control en la prueba posterior (p<0,001) mostrando una mejora significativa en la mayoría de las palabras. Podemos suponer que la metodología adicional incluida en el estudio principal podría ser responsable de la mejora del vocabulario. Después de la intervención, una entrevista semiestructurada con los participantes del grupo experimental obtuvo información sobre sus ideas sobre su propio aprendizaje y la metodología utilizada. Los participantes dieron una opinión positiva de las actividades basadas en la web y reconocieron la importancia del desarrollo del vocabulario en su proceso de aprendizaje de idiomas. Este estudio destaca la influencia positiva de la instrucción de vocabulario explícito en el entorno del aula de aprendizaje de inglés. La tecnología brinda oportunidades para replicar esta metodología con poca inversión de tiempo; esta puede ser una herramienta beneficiosa para profesores y estudiantes. En este sentido, al final, se discuten las implicaciones pedagógicas. / [CAT] L'adquisició de vocabulari és un dels principals desafiaments per als estudiants d'idiomes i la falta d'un vocabulari adequat és el primer impediment per a una comunicació amb èxit. A través d'una revisió de la literatura sobre l'ensenyança i l'aprenentatge de vocabulari es va identificar una bretxa important; la major part de la investigació es du a terme en condicions controlades. Hi ha la necessitat de comprendre la influència de l'ensenyança del vocabulari en l'entorn real de l'aula. Aquest estudi examina específicament la influència de metodologies d'ensenyança de vocabulari en l'aula. Este estudi es va realitzar en una universitat privada amb 37 participants en un estudi pilot i 166 en l'estudi principal, ambdós dividits en grups de control i experimentals utilitzant un disseny de pretest-postest per a analitzar la influència de la instrucció de vocabulari explícit en les classes. El coneixement del vocabulari es va avaluar abans i després de les intervencions amb una versió adaptada de l'Escala de coneixement del vocabulari (VKS per les seues sigles en anglès) (Paribakht i Wesche, 1993) . Aquesta investigació va constar de dos fases. En primer lloc, es va avaluar en un estudi pilot la instrucció de vocabulari explícit a través de l'exposició visual al vocabulari objectiu amb traducció a l'espanyol i entrada auditiva, esta etapa es va centrar en el primer pas per a l'aprenentatge de vocabulari mencionat per Nation (2013) : Parar atenció a les paraules. Els resultats obtinguts de l'estudi pilot no van presentar diferències significatives entre el grup control i l'experimental. Per tant, es va decidir incloure una activitat addicional per a millorar l'aprenentatge de vocabulari. En la segona fase, que va incloure a 166 estudiants, va emprar una activitat de vocabulari basada en la web, així com l'exposició visual. Açò es va introduir per a evocar el segon pas de l'aprenentatge de vocabulari: Recuperació. Esta metodologia va brindar oportunitats perquè els participants exploraren el vocabulari amb una nova ferramenta d'aprenentatge; permetent als estudiants no sols notar el vocabulari clau, sinó també recuperar-lo. Els resultats de l'estudi principal van ser encoratjadors, el grup experimental va superar al grup de control en la prova posterior (p<0,001) mostrant una millora significativa en la majoria de les paraules. Podem suposar que la metodologia addicional inclosa en l'estudi principal podria ser responsable de la millora del vocabulari. Després de la intervenció, una entrevista semiestructurada amb els participants del grup experimental va obtindre informació sobre les seues idees sobre el seu propi aprenentatge i la metodologia utilitzada. Els participants van donar una opinió positiva de les activitats basades en la web i van reconèixer la importància del desenvolupament del vocabulari en el seu procés d'aprenentatge d'idiomes. Este estudi destaca la influència positiva de la instrucció de vocabulari explícit en l'entorn de l'aula d'aprenentatge d'anglès. La tecnologia brinda oportunitats per a replicar esta metodologia amb poca inversió de temps; esta pot ser una ferramenta beneficiosa per a professors i estudiants. En este sentit, al final, es discutixen les implicacions pedagògiques. / [EN] Vocabulary acquisition is one of the major challenges for language learners and the lack of proper vocabulary is the first impediment to successful communication. A literature review of vocabulary teaching and learning identified an important gap; most research is conducted under controlled conditions. There is a necessity to understand the influence of vocabulary instruction in real classroom settings. This study specifically examines the influence of vocabulary teaching methodologies in the classroom. This study was conducted in a private university with 37 participants in a pilot study and 166 in the main study, both divided into control and experimental groups using a pretest-posttest design in order to analyse the influence of explicit vocabulary instruction in classes. Vocabulary knowledge was assessed before and after interventions with an adapted version of the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS) (Paribakht & Wesche, 1993). This research consisted of two phases. First, explicit vocabulary instruction through visual exposure to target vocabulary with Spanish translation and aural input was assessed in a pilot study. This stage focused on the first step for vocabulary learning mentioned by Nation (2013): Noticing. Results obtained from the pilot study presented no significant difference between the control and the experimental group. Therefore, it was decided to include an additional activity to enhance vocabulary learning. In the second phase, which included 166 students, employed a web-based vocabulary activity as well as the visual exposure. This was introduced to evoke the second step of vocabulary learning: Retrieval. This methodology provided opportunities for participants to explore vocabulary with a new learning tool; allowing students to not only notice target vocabulary, but also to retrieve it. The results from the main study were encouraging, the experimental group outperformed the control group in the posttest (p<0.001) showing significant improvement in most words in the experimental group. We may assume that the additional methodology included in the main study could be responsible for the vocabulary enhancement. After the intervention, a semi-structured interview with participants from the experimental group elicited information about their ideas toward their own learning and the methodology used. Participants gave a positive opinion of web-based activities and acknowledged the importance of vocabulary development in their language-learning process. This study highlights the positive influence of explicit vocabulary instruction in English Learning classroom settings. Technology provides opportunities to replicate this methodology with little time investment; a beneficial tool for teachers and students. In this sense, pedagogic implications are discussed. / Palacios Vivar, C. (2022). Effects of Exposure to L1 Translation in Vocabulary Acquisition in English as a Foreign Language with College Students [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/183071

<p dir="ltr">The existing landscape of collaboration and partnership-based research involving university writing centers primarily explores joint initiatives with campus libraries, academic programs, and high schools designed to support a variety of student learning objectives. This project is motivated by the increasing demand for partnerships between institutions of higher education across national borders and responds to a critical gap in writing center collaboration research involving international partners and identity-affirming campus partners to support the literacy and language learning needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Through the lens of a multi-institutional partnership between Colombia and the United States, the study draws on the insights and experiences of staff, tutors, and administrators from two writing centers at partner institutions in Colombia and a Latino cultural center at a university in the United States offering multilingual support programming. Qualitative findings support ideas for the development of collaborative visions between partners and suggest implications for individual and collective agency in partnership settings. Based on participant input about student experiences with language politics, sense of belonging, and access to support on campus, this study also proposes recommendations for building accompliceships with partners through a critical collaborative approach aimed at developing intercultural competence and a mindfulness of difference in writing mentorship.</p>

Drawing on theoretical work in literacy education, drama education and second language education, and taking account of poststructuralist, postcolonial, third world feminist, critical pedagogy, and intersectionality frameworks, this dissertation presents findings from an ethnography that critically examined the experiences of English language learners (ELLs) in three different drama classrooms, in three different high school contexts. More specifically, this multi-site study investigated two aspects of multiliteracies pedagogy: i) situated practice and ‘identity texts’ (Cummins et al., 2005; Cummins, 2006a) and ii) multimodality and embodied learning by overlaying, juxtaposing, or contrasting multiple voices (Britzman, 2000; Gallagher 2008; Lather 2000) of drama teachers and their students to provide a rich picture of the experiences of ELLs in drama classrooms. The diverse drama pedagogies observed in the three different drama contexts offer possibilities for a kind of cultural production proceeding from language learning through embodied meaning-making and self-expression. The situated practice of drama pedagogies provided a third space (Bhabha, 1990) for the examination of students’ own hybrid identities as well as the in-role examination of the identities of others, while moving between the fictional and the real in the drama work. The exploration of meaning-making and self-expression processes through drama, with attention to several aspects of embodied learning—from concrete, physical and kinesthetic aspects, to complex relational ones—was found to be strategic and valuable for the language and literacy learning of the English language learners. The findings from this study highlight the role of embodied forms of communication, expression and meaning-making in drama pedagogy. This embodied pedagogy is a multimodal form of self-expression since it integrates the visual, audio, sensory, tactile, spatial, performative, and aesthetic, through physical movement, gesture, facial expression, attention to pronunciation, intonation, stress, projection of voice, attention to spatial navigation, proximity between speakers in space, the use of images and written texts, the use of other props (costumes, artefacts), music and dance. The dialogic, collective, imaginative, in-between space of drama allows students to access knowledge and enrich their language and literacy education through connections to the real and the fictional, to self/others, to past and present experiences, and to dreams about imagined selves and imagined communities (Kanno & Norton, 2003).

Drawing on theoretical work in literacy education, drama education and second language education, and taking account of poststructuralist, postcolonial, third world feminist, critical pedagogy, and intersectionality frameworks, this dissertation presents findings from an ethnography that critically examined the experiences of English language learners (ELLs) in three different drama classrooms, in three different high school contexts. More specifically, this multi-site study investigated two aspects of multiliteracies pedagogy: i) situated practice and ‘identity texts’ (Cummins et al., 2005; Cummins, 2006a) and ii) multimodality and embodied learning by overlaying, juxtaposing, or contrasting multiple voices (Britzman, 2000; Gallagher 2008; Lather 2000) of drama teachers and their students to provide a rich picture of the experiences of ELLs in drama classrooms. The diverse drama pedagogies observed in the three different drama contexts offer possibilities for a kind of cultural production proceeding from language learning through embodied meaning-making and self-expression. The situated practice of drama pedagogies provided a third space (Bhabha, 1990) for the examination of students’ own hybrid identities as well as the in-role examination of the identities of others, while moving between the fictional and the real in the drama work. The exploration of meaning-making and self-expression processes through drama, with attention to several aspects of embodied learning—from concrete, physical and kinesthetic aspects, to complex relational ones—was found to be strategic and valuable for the language and literacy learning of the English language learners. The findings from this study highlight the role of embodied forms of communication, expression and meaning-making in drama pedagogy. This embodied pedagogy is a multimodal form of self-expression since it integrates the visual, audio, sensory, tactile, spatial, performative, and aesthetic, through physical movement, gesture, facial expression, attention to pronunciation, intonation, stress, projection of voice, attention to spatial navigation, proximity between speakers in space, the use of images and written texts, the use of other props (costumes, artefacts), music and dance. The dialogic, collective, imaginative, in-between space of drama allows students to access knowledge and enrich their language and literacy education through connections to the real and the fictional, to self/others, to past and present experiences, and to dreams about imagined selves and imagined communities (Kanno & Norton, 2003).

This thesis is a reflective exploration of the use and impact of using drama pedagogies in the English as a Second Language (ESL)/ English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. It stems from the problem of secondary school English language learning in Malaysia, where current teaching practices appear to have led to the decline of the standard of English as a second language in school leavers and university graduates (Abdul Rahman, 1997; Carol Ong Teck Lan, Anne Leong Chooi Khaun, & Singh, 2011; Hazita et al., 2010; Nalliah & Thiyagarajah, 1999). This problem resonates with my own experiences at school, as a secondary school student, an ESL teacher and, later, as a teacher trainer. Consequently, these experiences led me to explore alternative or supplementary teaching methodologies that could enhance the ESL learning experience, drawing initially from drama techniques such as those advocated by Maley and Duff (1983), Wessels (1987), and Di Pietro (1983), and later from process drama pedagogies such as those advocated by Greenwood (2005); Heathcote and Bolton (1995); Kao and O'Neill (1998), and Miller and Saxton (2004). This thesis is an account of my own exploration in adapting drama pedagogies to ESL/EFL teaching. It examines ways in which drama pedagogies might increase motivation and competency in English language learning. The main methodology of the study is that of reflective practice (e.g. Griffiths & Tann, 1992; Zeichner & Liston, 1996). It tracks a learning journey, where I critically reflect on my learning, exploring and implementing such pedagogical approaches as well as evaluate their impact on my students’ learning. These critical reflections arise from three case studies, based on three different contexts: the first a New Zealand English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) class in an intermediate school, the second a Malaysian ESL class in a rural secondary school, and the third an English proficiency class of adult learners in a language school. Data for the study were obtained through the following: research journal and reflective memo; observation and field notes; interview; social media; students’ class work; discussion with co-researchers; and through the literature of the field. A major teaching methodology that emerges from the reflective cycles is that of staging the textbook, where the textbook section to be used for the teaching programme is distilled, and the key focuses of the language, skills, vocabulary, and themes to be learnt are identified and extracted. A layer of drama is matched with these distilled elements and then ‘staged’ on top of the textbook unit, incorporating context-setting opportunities, potential for a story, potential for tension or complication, and the target language elements. The findings that emerge through critical reflection in the study relate to the drama methodologies that I learn and acquire, the impact of these methodologies on students, the role of culture in the application of drama methodologies, and language learning and acquisition. These findings have a number of implications. Firstly, they show how an English Language Teaching (ELT) practitioner might use drama methodologies and what their impact is on student learning. While the focus is primarily on the Malaysian context, aspects of the findings may resonate internationally. Secondly, they suggest a model of reflective practice that can be used by other ELT practitioners who are interested in using drama methodologies in their teaching. Thirdly, these findings also point towards the development of a more comprehensive syllabus for using drama pedagogies, as well as the development of reflective practice, in the teacher training programmes in Malaysia. The use of drama pedagogies for language learning is a field that has not been researched in a Malaysian context. Therefore, this account of reflective practice offers a platform for further research and reflection in this context.