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Carreres, Ángeles; Noriega-Sánchez, María – Research-publishing.net, 2021
While translation has been used for centuries for the purpose of language learning, there is no doubt that recent approaches in the area of language and translation pedagogy have helped re-conceptualise -- and re-operationalise -- translation in radically new ways. In the last two decades, the role of translation in language teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Guidelines
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Canollari-Baze, Albana; David, Gaby – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Drawing from a "constructivist" approach, this qualitative research presents results of teaching the Doctoral English Course (DEC) at the Center for Languages (CDL), University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. The DEC aims to train doctoral candidates in the practice of scientific communication in English. By allowing students to (re)think…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Scientific Research, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Mirzaei, Maryam Sadat; Meshgi, Kourosh – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper investigates the effect of sentence complexity, specifically lexical and syntactic surprisal, on L2 listening difficulty. Psycholinguistic studies revealed that surprisal cases correlate with textual comprehension difficulty. Based on surprisal theory, these cases are less probable or expected, considering the precedent context, thus…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Difficulty Level, Listening Skills
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Bordet, Geneviève – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This chapter focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on language classes in a Paris university in 2020. The first case studied is a Master of Arts (MA) class in translation studies. The forced and sudden switch to online learning was well accepted by students who cooperated with the academic staff to choose an online platform, in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Cornillie, Frederik; Baten, Kristof; De Hertog, Dirk – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This paper reports on the potential of Oral Elicited Imitation (OEI) as a format for output practice, building on an analysis of picture-matching and spoken data collected from 36 university-level learners of German as a second language (L2) in a web-based assessment task inspired by Input Processing (VanPatten, 2004). The design and development…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Imitation, Oral Language
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Schmied, Josef – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This chapter reports on the 'Corona teaching' in a department of English studies at a German university of technology. It discusses the general frame in the German university system and in this specific department, faculty and university. It focuses on the responses depending on participants and learning objectives. One larger lecture for 1st year…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Masters Programs
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Lewandowska, Elwira – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The present contribution discusses the importance of communicative strategies in introducing English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). A brief meta-analysis of the research conducted in the area of pragmatics reveals that one of the most salient elements of using ELF is the users' ability to conduct meaningful exchanges through various communicative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Official Languages
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Ngo, Thi Phuong Le – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A Virtual Resource Center (VRC) has been brought into use since 2008 as an integral part of a task-based language teaching and learning program for Business English courses at Nantes University, France. The objective of the center is to enable students to work autonomously and individually on their language problems so as to improve their language…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis, Business Communication, Second Language Learning
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Okazaki, Hironobu; Watanabe, Kanji; Hashimoto, Shinichi; Suzuki, Mitsuko; Fukuda, Eri; Kido, Kazuhiko – Research-publishing.net, 2014
Okazaki and Nitta (2005) developed an e-learning program called PLIMA (your Personal LIstening Manager) which focuses on improving poor phonological analysis such as the inability to hear liaison or unstressed sounds. However, the fact remains that there are certain types of liaison sounds that learners do not catch, and some types they do. This…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Electronic Learning
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Lai, Shu-Li – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A number of studies have suggested the potentials of corpus tools in vocabulary learning. However, there are still some concerns. Corpus tools might be too complicated to use; example sentences retrieved from corpus tools might be too difficult to understand; processing large number of sample sentences could be challenging and time-consuming;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes