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Al Noursi, Omar Hussein – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The blended learning approach utilizes modern technologies and electronic media in teaching to create a technology-based environment. However, it is not an exclusive online environment because the teacher and the students have to be present in a traditional face-to-face classroom. It is widely believed that adopting a blended learning approach…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, High School Students, Grade 12, English (Second Language)
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Bai, Ying – Language Testing in Asia, 2020
Test takers' individual characteristics may have a significant impact on their test performance (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, Language assessment in practice: Developing language assessments and justifying their use in the real world, 2010). However, given their dynamic and context-sensitive nature, different variables of test takers' individual…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Performance Factors, English (Second Language)
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Kayarkaya, Burcu; Unaldi, Aylin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
Comprehending a text involves constructing a coherent mental representation of it and deep comprehension of a text in its entirety is a critical skill in academic contexts. Interpretations on test takers' ability to comprehend texts are made on the basis of performance in test tasks but the extent to which test tasks are effective in directing…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Elizabeth Villanueva – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Language placement test serve with multiple purposes to measure the language abilities and performance of language learners to place them in the most appropriate language course with curriculum that best meets the language needs. There is the need to assess appropriately the Spanish heritage language learners' (SHLLs) abilities at the high-school…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Spanish, Native Language, Heritage Education
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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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Yuan Lu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study explored second language (L2) competence in discontinuous discursive formulaic sequences, namely Chinese correlative connectives (CCCs; e.g. yinwei . . . suy 'because . . . so'), in relation to the determinants of formulaic sequence acquisition by scrutinizing L2 Chinese learners' performance on two controlled tasks. Mixed-effects…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lee, Claire – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2019
In 2012, head teachers responded to the proposed new Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (commonly known as the SPaG or GPS test) with warnings of curriculum narrowing, teaching to tests, and misery for pupils and families. Despite head teachers' opposition to the test, seven cohorts of Year 6 pupils have now taken it. This article…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Language Tests, English Instruction, Grammar
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Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica A. R. – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
The current study was designed to determine whether classroom quality (i.e., the quality of teacher--child interactions) served as a mediator of peer effects with respect to preschool children's gain in language skills over an academic year. Participants were 670 preschool-age children (64.6% boys; "M" = 4 years, 4 months, "SD"…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Preschool Children, Language Skills, Special Education
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Parkin, Jason R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Theories of reading and writing development suggest that the factor structure of achievement batteries could change across development. As a result, it is important to test achievement batteries for invariance across development. The purpose of these analyses is to determine whether the factor structure of reading, writing, and oral language…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Reading Tests, Writing Tests, Language Tests
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Chen, Si; Zhao, Jing; de Ruiter, Laura; Zhou, Jing; Huang, Jinzhen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
We examined the effect of learning English as a foreign language in early childhood on children's later English and Chinese achievement and attitude toward English learning in mainland China. A total of 892 children were divided into two groups according to whether they had any English learning experience before they entered elementary school. To…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Chinese, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
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Zabala Delgado, Julia; Rouveyrol, Laurent – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Verbal interaction has been the subject of a growing interest among language professionals in Europe since the CEFR was published in 2001; in linguistics, verbal interaction has long been studied. In the Bakhtinian approach, it is even considered "the fundamental reality of language". All types of interaction share the fact that they are…
Descriptors: Spanish, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Runnion, Elizabeth A.; Pierce, Melissa; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the change in specific English microstructure features according to language ability in preschool Spanish-English dual language learners. Method: We collected English narratives from 22 Spanish-English dual language learners with typical language development (TD) and 22 Spanish-English dual language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Spanish, English
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Trinh, Quoc Lap; Nguyen, Thi Dieu Lien; Le, Thanh Thao – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The effects of international phonetic alphabet (IPA) instruction on English as a foreign language (EFL) adult learners' pronunciation have been well-recognized. However, not many studies on the topic were conducted in the Vietnamese context. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate (1) the impact of IPA learning on Vietnamese EFL adult…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonetics, Alphabets, Second Language Learning
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Jones, Wayne; McKeown, Kara; Littlewood, Suzanne – ELT Journal, 2022
While there are a variety of reasons for implementing English medium instruction (EMI) at higher-education institutions (HEIs) worldwide, this decision is often made without consideration of its potential impact on student learning. Federal HEIs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are no exception. With English language admission standards at…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dilekçi, Atilla; Çiçek, Seher – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this research is to evaluate secondary school Turkish language assessment tools in the sense of PISA reading skills criteria. To this end, document analysis, one of qualitative research methods, was employed in the current study. The research data were collected from 82 assessment tools prepared by 23 teachers. The questions…
Descriptors: Turkish, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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