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Xiaoyu Zhang; Sang-Gu Kang – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Dative alternation between prepositional and double object datives has been a popular topic in second language (L2) acquisition, but only few studies deal with discourse constraints such as the "given-before-new" principle, or given-new (GN) ordering, which describes the tendency to place given information before new information. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Candan, Karolin; Inal, Dilek – Journal of English as an International Language, 2020
Although Turkey is a country where English is taught as an international language (EIL), very few research studies have focused specifically on learners' attitudes toward different accents and pronunciations. Therefore, this paper attempts to highlight Turkish university preparatory school students' perceptions on different English pronunciations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Dai, Huiqin; Wen, Xu; Wen, Rui – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Native speakers of English have a strong preference for transferred negation as opposed to non-transferred negation. The present study aims to examine whether young Chinese-speaking ESL learners have a target-like preference for transferred negation and whether they have a system-wide representation of transferred negation in their early English…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Speakers, Preferences, Morphemes
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Tsunemoto, Aki; Trofimovich, Pavel; Blanchet, Josée; Bertrand, Juliane; Kennedy, Sara – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This study examined the effect of benchmarking and peer-assessment activities on second language (L2) French learners' self-assessments of accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency. The learners, who included 25 L2 French students enrolled in a 15-week university-level French course, recorded two oral presentations at the beginning and the end…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, French, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning
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Pan, Zhaoyi; Aroonmanakun, Wirote – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This research investigated the use of English spoken discourse markers by Thai EFL learners in English conversation compared to native English speakers from two perspectives: frequency and pragmatic function. A total of 60 learners were involved in the research: 30 Thai B1-level learners and 30 Thai C1-level EFL learners. Spoken data was collected…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shi, Jinfang; Peng, Gang; Li, Dechao – Language Learning, 2023
This study reports on a self-paced reading experiment exploring whether the figurativeness of collocations affects L2 processing of collocations. The participants were 40 English native speakers and 44 Chinese-speaking English foreign language learners (including doctoral, postgraduate, and undergraduate students). To ensure that the effect…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes
Craig Thorburn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language learners need to map a continuous, multidimensional acoustic signal to discrete abstract speech categories. The complexity of this mapping poses a difficult learning problem, particularly for second language learners who struggle to acquire the speech sounds of a non-native language, and almost never reach native-like ability. A common…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Games, Acoustics
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Zafer Susoy – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2023
This study examines lexical density, lexical diversity and academic vocabulary use in the dissertation abstracts written by EFL (English as a foreign language), ESL (English as a second language) and English L1 (Native Speakers) postgraduate students to find out whether these lexical features differ across different English language backgrounds of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Usage, Doctoral Dissertations, Native Speakers
Thane, Patrick D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present dissertation brings together research on heritage language acquisition and bilingual education and makes inroads into the limited research on heritage language development in school-aged bilingual children. This study explores how bilingual education, patterns of exposure, and lexical frequency shape adolescent Spanish heritage…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Douglas Fleming; Leilah Mbida; Francis Bangou; Carole Fleuret; Mimi Masson; Joël Thibeault; Stephanie Arnott – TESL Canada Journal, 2023
This article outlines a literature review of the current anglophone academic literature pertaining to plurilingualism. We summarize 24 of the most pertinent articles in terms of resistance to the adoption of plurilingual pedagogy; key factors in changing attitudes toward the approach; identified classroom options; and implications for teacher…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Standard Spoken Usage
Pauline Phi Nguyên Ðong – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
There is a need for Vietnamese language education for the Vietnamese American community in the United States, and the Vietnamese Language Program at Westminster High School (WHS) in Orange County, California, has been able to preserve the Vietnamese language. Students in the program also learn about their heritage and culture to stay connected to…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Language Maintenance, Vietnamese People, Asian Americans
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Yeung, Marine – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2021
Native-speakerism has generated much debate in the field of English language teaching, with the general assumption that native English-speaker teachers (NESTs) are better teachers and would be learners' preference over non-native English-speaker teachers (NNESTs) given the choice. Despite challenges against such an assumption in recent decades, it…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shieh, Jin-Jy; Reynolds, Barry Lee – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
Teachers in institutions of higher education have a very high degree of freedom when designing curricula. They make decisions on learning objectives, content, content organization, teaching arrangement, and assessment. Teachers' beliefs regarding curriculum design affect decision-making and planning processes, teaching approaches, and their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Beliefs, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Boning Lyu; Chun Lai – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Studies have explored how second language (L2) learners engage with peer feedback in instructional contexts. However, how learners engage in self-initiated and self-directed feedback practices beyond the classroom in online spaces is largely unknown. Informed by an ecological perspective, an in-depth exploration of the dynamics and underpinning…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Iftikhar Ahmad; Saleem Mohd Nasim – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Guided by Activity Theory framework, this study tends to uncover prominent contradictions in the activity systems in which non-native English as a Foreign Language (EFL) grammar teacher cognition operates. The study attempts to fill the existing research gaps, as there are visible gaps in the literature to address the problem from this angle. To…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grammar, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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