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Does Foreign Language Writing Benefit from Increased Lexical Fluency? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment
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van Gelderen, Amos; Oostdam, Ron; van Schooten, Erik – Language Learning, 2011
We report a classroom experiment directed at increasing lexical fluency in writing. Participants were 107 Dutch students in bilingual (EFL) education (Grades 10 and 11). According to current theories of writing such fluency allows writers to devote more attention to higher order aspects of text production, such as idea generation, selection and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Control Groups, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
The Development of Passive and Active Vocabulary in a Second Language: Same or Different?
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Laufer, Batia – Applied Linguistics, 1998
This study examined development of three types of vocabulary knowledge (passive, controlled active, and free active) over one year of second-language instruction and the relationship of the three types at different stages of vocabulary learning. Subjects were 48 Israeli high school students of English as a Second Language. Results raise questions…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Bangladesh Is My Motherland. A Case Study of Bengali and English Language Development and Use among a Group of Bengali Pupils in Britain.
Warner, Rachel – 1992
A study of 23 secondary school students in year 11 at a British comprehensive school investigated students' feelings about English and Bengali, their native language, their language learning history, how they had developed English language skills in a predominantly Bengali-speaking community, how they had maintained and developed their Bengali,…
Descriptors: Bengali, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques