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Sagun, Mark Leomyr A.; De Vera, Presley V. – Online Submission, 2019
This study anchors on the linguistic theme of "Metalinguistic Awareness". The study analyzed this phenomenon as imbibed by high school students, and how it can be promoted by instructional tools, such as literary pieces that have gained predominant use in ESL and EFL teaching. The participants of this study are Grade 8 students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Llach, M[a]. Pilar Agustin – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
The present paper intends to investigate the lexical gap-filling behaviour of primary and secondary Spanish learners of English. When there is a mismatch between the learners lexical knowledge and their communicative needs, then a lexical gap arises. Learners resort to different mechanisms to compensate for that lack of lexical knowledge.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Semantics, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)