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Giovanna Arenare; Encarnación Carrasco Perea; Carmen López Ferrero – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article focuses on the effects of a 21-hour Romance Intercomprehension (RIC) module on the plurilingual competence in Romance languages of no prior knowledge and EFL reading comprehension skills of a group of Italian schoolchildren aged 10-11. Data were collected pre- and post-training through a simple language identification and…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Linares, Emily – L2 Journal, 2022
Largely banished from language instruction following the adoption of communicative approaches, some researchers now encourage the use of translation as a valuable resource for the language classroom. While increasingly embraced in theory, there remains a need to better understand, through empirical research, the implementation of translation-based…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Àngels Llanes; Júlia Barón; Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Second Language Pragmatics (L2 pragmatics) research focused on the study abroad (SA) context points out the benefits of this context for second language (L2) pragmatic development while also illustrating the non-linearity of this development, as it is shaped by different contextual factors and individual differences. Nevertheless, this research…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad, Pragmatics
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Calchei, Marcela; Barrett, Karen Caplovitz; Amukune, Stephen; Józsa, Krisztián – Cogent Education, 2022
Recent empirical research has demonstrated the importance of mastery motivation in child development. Therefore, it is essential to have valid and reliable instruments to measure this variable. The Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaires (DMQ 18) was validated in English, Hungarian, Chinese and Spanish. In this article, we evaluate the psychometric…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Russian, Romance Languages, Ethnic Groups
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Manegre, Marni – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
This study investigates how previous exposure to a foreign language and culture influences student performance in online knowledge-building tasks. As knowledge-building tasks allow students to share and distribute their knowledge; this study examines whether foreign language and culture knowledge is also distributed amongst the group. The study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness
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Tódor, Erika Mária – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The aim of the article is to analyse the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the skills of reading and text-understanding, focusing on the comparative analysis of experiences of meaning in native language, Romanian and English in the case of Hungarian pupils. We attempted to present the qualitative indexes and factors of the process of reading…
Descriptors: Native Language, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Reading Skills