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Zhang, Jie; Lo, Meng-Ting; Lin, Tzu-Jung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study investigated how word and child characteristics affect children's ability to learn the meanings of novel words. Participants were fourth- and fifth-graders representing native English speakers (NE) and bilingual learners with fluent English proficiency (FEP) and designated English Learners (EL). Students were taught the meanings of a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Zhai, Na; Ma, Xiaomei – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) has been frequently used to provide feedback on student writing. Many empirical studies have examined the effectiveness of AWE on writing quality, but the results were inconclusive. Thus, the magnitude of AWE's overall effect and factors influencing its effectiveness across studies remained unclear. This study…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Meta Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Judy, Tiffany; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; Martín-Villena, Fernando; Miller, David – Second Language Research, 2023
This study tests the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CSH) as applied to adult second language acquisition of aspect in Spanish. The CSH purports that differences among tutored and untutored learners result from competition between one system of underlying grammatical knowledge and another of learned metalinguistic knowledge in tutored learners…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Takeda, Yuya – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
This paper reports on the narrative of Shannon, a Taiwanese Canadian female assistant language teacher (ALT) of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, one of the world's largest government-sponsored programmes for recruiting English language teachers to teach overseas [Nagatomo (2016). "Identity, gender and teaching English in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Political Attitudes, Race, Gender Differences
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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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