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Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
There is a wealth of literature examining the role of motivation in second language (L2) learning but remarkably little research that has examined how teachers can foster motivation in the classroom. For this reason alone Guilloteaux and Dornyei's (2008) correlational study of the relationship between motivational strategies and student motivation…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Ellis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 2006
This article re-examines the question of what makes some grammatical structures more difficult to learn than others, arguing that this question can only be properly understood and investigated with reference to the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge of a second language. Using a battery of tests that were designed to measure…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Grammar, Correlation
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Ellis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 1995
Studied the relationship between modified oral input and the acquisition of word meanings by Japanese high school students. Results include a strong relationship between comprehension and word meaning acquisition was only evident in a test replicating learning format; and rate of word acquisition was faster with the premodified input. (54…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, English (Second Language), High School Students