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Bachelor, Jeremy W. – Online Submission, 2023
This paper examines the use of technology in the development and assessment of interpersonal communication skills in an online second language (L2) Spanish classroom. The study explores the use of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools and strategies to promote interaction among learners, while also considering the challenges and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Computer Mediated Communication
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Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This paper presents a case study of a Hong Kong university student's experiences of learning English as a second language (L2) over a four-year period, with particular attention to the changes in her identities and beliefs across time and space. Drawing on a narrative inquiry approach, the study revealed that the student's L2 identities appeared…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Chang, Jackie – Arab World English Journal, 2021
English is regarded as a key to globalization or internationalization and future success for Taiwan and its people. One of the most extraordinary results of English-as-the-global-language of English teaching and learning in Taiwan is private English language schools are ubiquitous. Research into how private English language schools weld together…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Gesuato, Sara – TESL-EJ, 2021
This paper addressed the under-investigated question whether speech act moves can be identified and classified in conversation by examining the content, positioning, and strategic role of utterances in turns and turn sequences. To this end, offering exchanges were analysed in the transcripts of 31 open role-plays. These were elicited from American…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Native Speakers
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Pelzl, Eric; Lau, Ellen F.; Jackson, Scott R.; Guo, Taomei; Gor, Kira – Language Learning, 2021
Previous event-related potentials (ERP) research has investigated how foreign accent modulates listeners' neural responses to lexical-semantic and morphosyntactic errors. We extended this line of research to consider whether pronunciation errors in Mandarin Chinese are processed differently when a foreign-accented speaker makes them relative to…
Descriptors: Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Pronunciation
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Baran-Lucarz, Malgorzata; Lee, Jang Ho – International Journal of English Studies, 2021
Empirical research shows that language anxiety has a detrimental effect on foreign language learning and its use. Several studies suggest that anxiety related to mastering and using foreign languages is skill-specific. This study examined pronunciation anxiety and attempted to determine its significant correlates. The included factors ranged from…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Native Speakers
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Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2021
This study evaluates the development of L2 collocational competence in texts written by learners of differing proficiency levels, compared to native speaker collocation patterns from a reference corpus. We address: (1) whether learners develop their collocation competence as their proficiency grows; and (2) How is this development mediated by…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina – Education Economics, 2021
We analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect students' educational achievement and social integration. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity by using a novel measure of the degree of linguistic diversity in the classroom. Conditional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Integration, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Hwang, Sophia H. J.; Cappella, Elise; Kieffer, Michael J.; Yates, Miranda – Grantee Submission, 2021
This study examines the associations among cross-linguistic social ties, individual-level social network and demographic characteristics, and academic and social-emotional outcomes in a sample of third to eighth grade Latine and Black youth attending urban afterschool programs. Guided by social capital and social learning perspectives, this study…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Student Diversity, Urban Areas, After School Programs
Vera E. W. Hanaoka – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines how L2 Japanese speaker international students experience their subjectivity (Harre & Gillett, 1994), that is, how their language use and actions convey their thoughts and feelings, their sense of self, and how they relate to the world around them, in casual conversations with L1 Japanese speaker peers. In order to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Japanese, Second Language Learning
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Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia – Applied Linguistics, 2017
The current study investigated linguistic influences on comprehensibility (ease of understanding) and accentedness (linguistic nativelikeness) in second language (L2) learners' extemporaneous speech. Target materials included picture narratives from 40 native French speakers of English from different proficiency levels. The narratives were…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Listening Skills
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Tzeng, Christina Y.; Nygaard, Lynne C.; Namy, Laura L. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Although language has long been regarded as a primarily arbitrary system, "sound symbolism," or non-arbitrary correspondences between the sound of a word and its meaning, also exists in natural language. Previous research suggests that listeners are sensitive to sound symbolism. However, little is known about the specificity of these…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Oral Language, Phonics
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Cheng-Ji Lai – International Education Studies, 2024
Despite the increasing popularity of dual language education programs in Taiwan, limited research assesses their effectiveness. This study evaluated eight English Immersion Programs (EIPs) in Taiwan, representing a dual language education model, using the "Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education" (GPDLE) framework. Interviews with…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Bilingual Education Programs, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Bi, Zhou – Higher Education Studies, 2019
This paper aims to explore topic effect on syntactic complexity in Chinese EFL learners' and English native speakers' writings. To this end, the paper examined 600 argumentative essays on two topics, using 14 measures of syntactic complexity to investigate whether there is significant difference in topic effect on EFL writings and ENS writings.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Difficulty Level, Persuasive Discourse
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Köroglu, Zehra – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
This study has been conducted to evaluate transition marker (TM) types in the MA theses written by the native speakers (NSs) of English and Turkish speakers (TSs) of English. The purpose is to compare the most salient transition types of the NSs and TSs randomly selected theses introduction, results and discussion, and conclusion sections in the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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