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Hermas, Abdelkader – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study investigates the acquisition of genericity in L2 French and L3 English. While some exponents become generic by assembling morphological, syntactic and discursive cues, definite singular nominals additionally require the well-established kind restriction. It is a pragmatic and language-specific constraint. The participants are L1 Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
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Azizi, Zeinab; Namaziandost, Ehsan – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Though dynamic assessment (DA) has gained strong theoretical and empirical support over the last decades, second language (L2) practitioners have blamed it for its applicability in large classes. To ameliorate this limitation, peer-dynamic assessment (peer-DA), rooted in the conceptualization of zone of proximal development (ZPD), can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning
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Zavialova, Alisa – TESL-EJ, 2023
Pragmatic formulas have been recognized as linguistic building blocks necessary for successful speech act performance. Current approaches to speech act teaching overlook pragmatic formulas, promoting an incomplete view of pragmatics instruction. This paper reports on the results of a classroom-based study in which a formula-enhanced treatment…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bagherkazemi, Marzieh; Harati-Asl, Mahboobeh – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2022
Research into instructed pragmatics mainly comparing implicit and explicit instruction has gained salience in language teaching research in the last two decades. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of cognitive and interpersonal task-based instruction on EFL Learners' production of two speech acts of apology and request. To…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Comparative Analysis
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Tangtorrith, Nipaporn; Pongpairoj, Nattama – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the production of stress in English compound nouns and phrasal verbs by L1 Thai learners. Based on the Interlanguage Hypothesis (Corder, 1982; Selinker, 1972), it was hypothesized that (1) there is a positive relationship between English proficiency levels and accuracy in stress assignment in compound nouns and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Interlanguage, Correlation, English (Second Language)
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Almalki, Ziad; Jones, Christian – Language Learning Journal, 2022
There have been a number of studies on the use of complaints as a speech act. The majority of these studies have included analysis of how different first language speakers make complaints while only a limited number of studies have examined the effects of instruction on the development of complaints as a speech act. Those that have examined this…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction