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Direct linkChou, Mu-Hsuan – Education 3-13, 2020
Researchers and language teachers have become increasingly aware of the importance of multi-word items in developing fluency and sounding native-like in English. Nevertheless, understanding and using English phrasal verbs can be challenging and limiting for learners in an EFL environment; offering opportunities to maximise their use of phrasal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Comprehension
Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration
Download full textLumbreras, Ricardo, Jr.; Rupley, William H. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
This study focused on preservice secondary teacher's use of the Understanding by Design (UbD), framework to create effective, engaging lessons for their future secondary level students. The subjects consisted of 69 secondary pre-service secondary education majors at a Texas University who were enrolled in a required course for admission into the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Lesson Plans, Pretests Posttests, Vocabulary Development
Solhi Andarab, Mehdi – Online Submission, 2019
The difficulty in learning vocabulary is a problem that lies in not anchoring the new items to relevant established entities in cognitive structure. Different categories of associations have been reported to aid facilitating vocabulary acquisition. Collocating vocabulary items is a type of association that is considered to be more efficient in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Purnamasari, Ribka; Katemba, Caroline V.; Panjaitan, Nelson – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2018
The purpose of this study is to find out the improvement of students' vocabulary between those who were taught through WTB (Word Tree Branch) or IWW (Interactive Word Wall). This study used quantitative research method and comparative design by using pre-test and post-test. This study was designed to find out the answer to the following question:…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students
Zhang, Xiaopeng; Dong, Xiaoli – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study examined the effectiveness of Zipfian frequency at facilitating the acquisition of English prenominal past participles. Chinese middle school students (N = 103) were randomly assigned to a sequenced Zipfian frequency (SZF) group, a random Zipfian frequency (RZF) group, a balanced frequency (BF) group, and a control group. A mixed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
