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Shemshadsara, Zahra Ghorbani – English Language Teaching, 2011
Mastering pronunciation in EFL context, where direct access to native speaker is scarce, is a highly challenging objective for many language students in Iran. Stress as a suprasegmental feature, more specifically, poses its own problems, specially when suffixes are added to words. There are different types of suffixes, two of which are neutral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Metalinguistics, Suprasegmentals
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Xu, Jianping – English Language Teaching, 2009
This empirical study was undertaken to test the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer and Hulstijn, 2001) by examining the impact of three tasks on vocabulary acquisition. It was designed to test and develop the involvement load hypothesis by examining the impact of different reading tasks on the L2 vocabulary acquisition. The results show that…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Hypothesis Testing, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning