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Nguyen, Thi-Huyen; Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Pham, Xuan-Lam; Pham, Thao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Our study explored EFL writing skills in relation to self-experience in an authentic learning context with the help of a mobile application. Two authentic writing activities ('Tell your story' and 'Describe your context') were designed and compared to see if they resulted in significant differences in EFL writing performance and writing behavior.…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Saito, Hidetoshi; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Kasahara, Kiwamu – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The study evaluated a recently postponed national test policy on the use of external agencies' English tests measuring four skills for Japanese university admission purposes. Using Kunnan's principles of fairness and justice, we generated and evaluated three claims regarding the test policy: vocabulary coverage of the tests, the justifiability of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Equal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Abdi Tabari, Mahmoud – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study investigated the effects of strategic planning and task structure (personal, narrative, and decision-making tasks) on L2 writing outcomes. One hundred and twenty intermediate English as a foreign language learners were randomly divided into strategic-planning and no-planning-time groups. The strategic-planning group performed the three…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Yeung, Susanna S.; Liu, Yingyi; Lin, Dan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Previous studies have examined the predictive significance of the level of phonemic awareness in L2 spelling, but have left the role of phonemic awareness growth relatively unexplored. The aims of the present study were to examine (1) the growth trajectory of phonemic awareness in the kindergarten years; and (2) the unique contribution of initial…
Descriptors: Spelling, Second Language Learning, Phonemic Awareness, Role
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Alnahidh, Faye; Altalhab, Sultan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
This study aims to investigate the level and the sources of Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety (FLSA). To achieve this aim, a mixed-method approach was used by implementing a questionnaire and interviews. Eighty-five female Saudi EFL university students completed the questionnaire. Six of the most highly anxious students were identified according…
Descriptors: Females, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mills, Kathy A.; Unsworth, Len – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
In an age of mobile technologies, digital animation creation can be an important tool for teaching adolescents how to communicate emotions multimodally. This article draws on appraisal theory and original research to illustrate the power of digital animation for multimodal literacy learning. Students from a culturally diverse cohort were taught…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Animation, Literacy, Emotional Development
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Tatsukawa, Keiso – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This paper aims to clarify the expected oral proficiency level for secondary school English teachers in Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (hereafter MEXT) encourages public secondary school English teachers to reach a threshold level of the Pre-1st Grade of Eiken (an English proficiency test).…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Allen, David – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Cross-linguistic lexical similarity in the form of cognates and loanwords has been shown to positively impact second language learning and use, as well as performance on tests of lexical knowledge, even when the learners' languages differ in script. The present study utilizes Japanese cognate frequency, as an indication of cognate knowledge, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning
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Kohnen, Nicole; Retelsdorf, Jan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: Connectives, such as "because" or "although," explicitly indicate how to semantically link individual segments of a text. Knowledge of connectives has been shown to significantly contribute to variance explanation in comprehension of English and Dutch texts, particularly amongst monolingual students and students…
Descriptors: German, Knowledge Level, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 9
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Karami, Hossein; Kouhpaee Nejad, Mohammadhossein; Nourzadeh, Saeed; Ahmadi Shirazi, Masoumeh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This study was set to cross-validate a bilingual Persian-English version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) against the monolingual English version and compare Iranian EFL learners' performance on the two versions. Various bilingual versions of the VST have been developed based on the assumption that bilingual versions are not affected by the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lindsey Alane Hiebert – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This manuscript-based dissertation is comprised of three interrelated longitudinal studies on Spanish language growth and deceleration and its impact on English language growth and English reading skills in bilingual children. Chapter 1 introduces the manuscript-based dissertation and provides the background on existing, longitudinal work of dual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
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Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Saldaña, David; Moreno-Perez, Francisco J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The aim of the study is to describe the performance of deaf and hearing people while speechreading Spanish, a language with transparent orthography, and to relate this skill to reading efficiency. Three groups of 27 participants each were recruited: a group of deaf participants, a chronological age-matched hearing group and a reading age-matched…
Descriptors: Lipreading, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Spanish
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Frost, Rebecca L. A.; Monaghan, Padraic; Christiansen, Morten H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
High frequency words have been suggested to benefit both speech segmentation and grammatical categorization of the words around them. Despite utilizing similar information, these tasks are usually investigated separately in studies examining learning. We determined whether including high frequency words in continuous speech could support…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Speech Communication, Task Analysis, Language Tests
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Hindman, Annemarie H.; Wasik, Barbara A.; Bradley, Donald E. – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examined how teacher--child conversations unfold during shared book reading in Head Start classrooms as well as the relations between that talk and children's vocabulary learning. Book reading experiences in 27 Head Start classrooms were videotaped and coded for teacher talk, child responses, teacher follow-up…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Books, Vocabulary Skills, Classroom Communication
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Lin, Candise Y.; Wang, Min; Newman, Rochelle S.; Li, Chuchu – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: This study examined the development of stress sensitivity and its relationship with word reading. Previous research has rarely measured phoneme and stress sensitivity in the same task, making a direct comparison of the contribution between the two in reading development difficult. Methods: Participants were native English-speaking…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Phonology, Elementary School Students, Correlation
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