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Olsen, Michael K. – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Evidence that L2 learners of Spanish overgeneralize indirect object pronouns (OPs) to direct object contexts with human referents and direct OPs to indirect object contexts with nonhuman referents has been provided by Zyzik (2006), Malovrh (2008), and Olsen and Juffs (2022). However, the effect of instruction on this phenomenon has not been…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Hedayat Sarandi; Hossein Nassaji – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This study examines the role of recast frequency and its effectiveness in the acquisition of English articles in a computer-mediated context. Sixty-one preintermediate university language learners in Turkey were randomly divided into four main groups: high frequency recast (HF), low frequency recast (LF), test control, and task control groups. The…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
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Bacca-Acosta, Jorge; Tejada, Julian; Lampropoulos, Georgios; Avila, Cecilia – CALICO Journal, 2023
Virtual reality (VR) is gaining momentum in language education thanks to technological advances and technology at a cost that is affordable for deploying a learning experience. However, there is a need for more research to identify the topics that are most suitable to be taught using VR in English as a foreign language (EFL) courses. In order to…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wong, Man Ho Ivy – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Informed by two usage-based approaches, this study investigated to what extent different types of computer-based training facilitated English preposition learning among intermediate Chinese learners of English. The design of the pedagogical materials was informed by the cognitive linguistics (CL) framework while the training format was motivated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Concept Formation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Zhang, Hong; Torres-Hostench, Olga – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) training for FL students. Our hypothesis was that with specific MTPE training, students will able to detect and correct machine translation mistakes in their FL. Training materials were developed to detect six typical mistakes from Machine…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Brown, Esther L.; Shin, Naomi – First Language, 2022
Child language acquisition research has provided ample evidence of lexical frequency effects. This corpus-based analysis introduces a novel frequency measure shown to significantly constrain adult language variation, but heretofore unexplored in child language acquisition research. Among adults, frequent occurrence of a form in a particular…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Word Frequency, Computational Linguistics