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Direct linkPhil Hiver; Ali H. Al-Hoorie; Akira Murakami – Language Learning, 2025
In this paper, we report a longitudinal study of the effects of procedural task repetition on learners' task performance (i.e., syntactic complexity in relation to lexical complexity). We investigated how task repetition results in differences at the group and individual level across each task interval (T = 7). Intermediate-level Saudi learners of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Longitudinal Studies
Alshehri, Mona G.; Zhang, Dongbo – Language Learning, 2022
This study compared how distinct lexical competences, including lexical knowledge as well as processing skills at both word/lexical and sublexical/morphological levels, collectively and relatively predict reading comprehension in adult learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The participants were 220 Arabic-speaking EFL learners in a…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Moskovsky, Christo; Alrabai, Fakieh; Paolini, Stefania; Ratcheva, Silvia – Language Learning, 2013
While consensus exists about the critical role of learners’ motivation in second language acquisition, controlled investigations of the effects of teachers’ motivational strategies are limited. The research reported here used a quasi-experimental design to assess the effects of motivational strategies used by Saudi English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Second Language Learning
