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Perez-Cortes, Silvia – Second Language Research, 2022
The present investigation examines intra-speaker variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish by focusing on the potential effects of two variables in their acquisition of mood: lexical frequency and morphological regularity. To do so, this study tested participants' interpretation and use of early-acquired mood alternations conveying either…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Morphology (Languages), Verbs, Spanish
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Daniels, Paul – TESL-EJ, 2022
This paper compares the speaking scores generated by two online systems that are designed to automatically grade student speech and provide personalized speaking feedback in an EFL context. The first system, "Speech Assessment for Moodle" ("SAM"), is an open-source solution developed by the author that makes use of Google's…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Auditory Perception, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing
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Dos Santos, Luis Miguel – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
English language teaching is one of the requirements for many Bachelor of Education programmes in Taiwanese education colleges and universities. In Taiwan, English language is considered one of the general education requirements (usually eight credits) for all undergraduate students. Although additional English language courses are not required…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Conner, Carlin; Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J.; Zajic, Matthew C. – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background and aims: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tele-health has gained popularity for both providing services and delivering assessments to children with disabilities. In this manuscript, we discuss the process of collecting standardized oral language, reading, and writing tele-assessment data with early elementary children with autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation
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Turhan, Burcu; Tuncer, Hülya – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2022
Apology may be defined as "a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected the hearer" (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker... which is positively valued by the speaker and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning
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Canli, Bekir; Çakir, Ismail – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
This study aims to present the washback effect of the undergraduate English placement examination in Turkiye on teachers who are considered one of the highest stakeholders of the test. The data were collected through questionnaires from 110 participants and follow-up face-to-face interviews with 24 English language teachers having teaching…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Language Tests, Testing Problems, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Jinfen; Li, Changying – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study investigates how different form-focused instruction (FFI) timing impacts English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammar development. A total of 169 Chinese middle school learners were assigned to four conditions randomly: control, before-isolated FFI, integrated FFI, and after-isolated FFI. The three experimental groups received…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alharbi, Ahmed O. – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This paper focuses on the most significant empirical studies on the topic of challenges facing the communicative language teaching approach in Saudi Arabia. The communicative language teaching method has been used for more than two decades in Saudi Arabia and research conducted during this period offers some insight into the main challenges of the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Taladngoen, Unaree; Esteban, Reuben H. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Distractors in tests are included to divert attention away from correct answers choices. Knowing what types of distractors commonly appear in tests will benefit test takers as they can prepare themselves beforehand. Therefore, this qualitative study was aimed at making assumptions on plausible lexical distractors which are expected to appear in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Alghamdi, Ghada Mousa Abdullah – English Language Teaching, 2022
Social media platforms have gained exceptional popularity, especially in the last ten years, and have subsequently become important to current human lifestyle. Instagram (IG) is among the most popular social media platforms, and is used by millions of people every day, especially young adults. Given this significance, social media platforms have…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sparks, Richard L. – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
This paper examines evidence for relationships among individual differences (IDs) in L1 achievement, L2 aptitude, and L2 achievement. It begins by providing an overview of my academic journey from L1 educator to L2 researcher and explains the development of the Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis (LCDH). Next, I review Peter Skehan's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Aptitude, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Teaching and learning of technical terms constitute a major problem for ESP instructors and students. To help the students learn, retain, apply and relate technical terms, a multiple-associations instructional approach that focuses on connecting the printed form of the technical term with its pronunciation (the hidden sounds, double and silent…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Azhar, Aqil Zainal; Segal, Avi; Gal, Kobi – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
This paper studies the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies for optimizing the sequencing of online learning materials to students. Our approach provides an end to end pipeline for automatically deriving and evaluating robust representations of students' interactions and policies for content sequencing in online educational settings. We…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Instructional Materials, Learning Analytics, Policy Analysis
Kim, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While language aptitude and motivation are considered to be important contributors to second language (L2) attainment, two major gaps in the past research have been (1) a lack of nonlinear models stemming from a naive and tacit assumption that learning outcomes are linearly related to their predictors, and (2) a lack of unified and integrative…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Aptitude, Learning Motivation
Houston Independent School District, 2022
The dual-language bilingual program in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) is intended to facilitate emergent bilinguals (EBs) integration into the regular school curriculum and ensure access to equal educational opportunities, while promoting biliteracy and bilingualism for both EBs and native English speakers. The dual-language (DL)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
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