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Exploring the Relationship between Explicit Instruction, Pronunciation Awareness, and the Development of L2 French Connected Speech Processes
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Inceoglu, Solène – Language Awareness, 2021
The general consensus in second language (L2) acquisition research that instruction facilitates L2 development has been confirmed in a growing number of meta-analyses and research syntheses conducted in an increasingly wide range of L2 areas, including, recently, pronunciation instruction. Yet, little research has been done on the…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction
Teachers' Reinterpretations of Critical Literacy Policy: Prioritizing Praxis
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Alford, Jennifer; Kettle, Margaret – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
Recent conservative reviews of Australia's national English curriculum argue for a return to less critical approaches to English language education and a stronger emphasis on traditional, functional approaches to provide adequate English learning experiences for school-age students. This neoliberal shift poses a threat to adolescent learners from…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, National Curriculum, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Individual Consultations: Academic Writing Outcomes for International Students
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Walkinshaw, Ian; Milford, Todd; Freeman, Keri – SAGE Open, 2015
Responding to calls for research into measurable English language outcomes from individual language support consultations at universities, this study investigated the effect of individual consultations (ICs) on the academic writing skills and lexico-grammatical competence of students who speak English as an additional language (EAL). Attendance by…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English for Academic Purposes, Grammar, Vocabulary Skills
Learner Background and the Acquisition of Discourse Features of Korean in the Australian Secondary School Context
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Kim, Sun Hee Ok – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This paper explores how learner background shapes learner performance on discourse features in writing by analysing data produced as part of the Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education project (Scarino et al., 2011) by Year 10 (mid-secondary school) students learning Korean as a foreign or heritage language. Five participants were in…
Descriptors: Syntax, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Community Schools
Balancing the Roles of Explicit Instruction of Text Form Language and Schema Theory in Student Non-Fiction Writing: Problems and Possibilities
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Broer van Arragon, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2003
The focus of this study will be on the intersection of the following domains: Second Language Acquisition research on cohesion and coherence, discourse acquisition of young children, the effect of text form-focused instruction on student non-fiction writing and the impact of schema theory on student decision-making during the writing process.
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
Migrant Children's Language, Parental and Peer Language Environment, and Their Implications in the Australian Intercultural Context.
Rado, Marta; Foster, Lois – 1985
A study of some features of the language usage of nonnative English speakers focused on global communicative competence and the use of text-building devices. Subjects were the primary-school-age children of eight native Italian-, Greek-, and Macedonian-speaking migrant parents and a matched set of native-English-speaking classmates. The language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse