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Direct linkChing-Ni Hsieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study examined the role of writing task types and L2 reading proficiency on young English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing performances. The participants were 185 students (Grades 7 and 8) from Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. The students responded to a descriptive and an email writing tasks that assessed their writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tuohilampi, Laura; Nieminen, Juuso Henrik; Beswick, Kim – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
When a Year 7 student physically reacted to a prompt of another student by anxiously drumming the desk with his ruler, exclaiming "uuuuhh", the initial thought of the observing researcher, Laura, was: "this is an interesting account". This started a reflective journey of first applying robust research methodologies to the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Grade 7, Researchers
Download full textPili-Moss, Diana; Schmidt, Torben; Blume, Carolyn; Middelanis, Lisa; Meurers, Detmar – Research-publishing.net, 2022
The present exploratory study investigated the efficacy of secondary face-to-face classroom-based English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction digitally supported by the FeedBook, an interactive computer assisted language learning web-based suite of exercises providing item-level scaffolded feedback. Seventy-seven native (L1) German…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Collins, Penelope; Tate, Tamara P.; won Lee, Joong; Krishnan, Jenell A.; Warschauer, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We examined the contributions of English proficiency, genre, and the use of textual sources to adolescent writing. The sample included 1819 native English speakers and language minority students from 127 seventh- and eighth-grade classes in an urban school district. Students were randomly assigned one of three source-based essay prompts…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Brunfaut, Tineke; Kormos, Judit; Michel, Marije; Ratajczak, Michael – Language Testing, 2021
Extensive research has demonstrated the impact of working memory (WM) on first language (L1) reading comprehension across age groups (Peng et al., 2018), and on foreign language (FL) reading comprehension of adults and older adolescents (Linck et al., 2014). Comparatively little is known about the effect of WM on young FL readers' comprehension,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy
Park, Yujong – English Teaching, 2018
A growing number of task-based learning (TBL) research has employed a process-oriented research framework to analyze second language data in L2 classrooms using a task-in-process vs. task-as-workplan dichotomy (e.g., Seedhouse, 2004). Adopting the task-in-process framework, the current study analyzes how students in Korean EFL classrooms interact…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Menke, Mandy R. – Hispania, 2015
Language immersion students' lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic competencies are well documented, yet their phonological skill has remained relatively unexplored. This study investigates the Spanish vowel productions of a cross-sectional sample of 35 one-way Spanish immersion students. Learner productions were analyzed acoustically and compared to…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Vowels, Elementary School Students, Spanish
