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Chen, Xuemei; Wang, Suiping; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Structural priming studies in production have demonstrated stronger priming effects for unexpected sentence structures (inverse preference effect). This is consistent with error-based implicit learning accounts that assume learning depends on prediction error. Such prediction error can be verb-specific, leading to strong priming when a verb that…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Priming, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
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Yoshimasa Ogawa – Journal of Response to Writing, 2025
This study explored a way to help Japanese university students write longer essays while maintaining grammatical accuracy. Participants were three groups of students enrolled in a one-year EFL course in different academic years (N = 111), and the number of words they wrote in 30 minutes and the number of errors made per 100 words were compared. To…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Accuracy, Writing Evaluation
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Trang, Nguyen Huynh; Anh, Khau Hoang; Khanh, Truong Nhat – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The current study attempted to investigate English collocations used in written translation among fourth-year English majors at a university. The participants included forty-one fourth-year English-majored students and three translation teachers who are teaching English-Vietnamese translation courses in the university. To gather data, the…
Descriptors: Translation, Word Order, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Mirsalari, Seyed Ali; Khoram, Alireza – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
Collocations are one of the areas that create problems for EFL learners. Iranian EFL learners like other EFL learners encounter serious problems in producing collocations. The current study is an attempt to examine the Iranian EFL learners' ability to produce English collocations. It also attempts to identify the strategies that they usually adopt…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Griswold, Olga – CATESOL Journal, 2017
This study analyzed the grammatical control of verbs exercised by 145 monolingual English and Generation 1.5 bilingual developmental writers in narrative essays using quantitative and qualitative methods. Generation 1.5 students made more errors than their monolingual peers in each category investigated, albeit in only 2 categories was the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Verbs, Grammar
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Chui, Daniel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
Previous analyses of the Spanish deictic verbs "venir" "to come", "ir" "to go", traer "to bring" and "llevar" "to take" have drawn upon Fillmore's (1975) series of lectures on deixis in noting that speakers of Spanish forbid the use of the verbs "venir" and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Verbs, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Strong, Brian; Boers, Frank – Modern Language Journal, 2019
English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks and internet resources exhibit various formats and implementations of exercises on phrasal verbs. The experimental study reported here examines whether some of these might be more effective than others. EFL learners at a university in Japan were randomly assigned to 4 treatment groups. Two groups were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)
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Bailey, Daniel; Lee, Andrea Rakushin – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Different genres of writing entail various levels of syntactic and lexical complexity, and how this complexity influences the results of Automatic Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs like Grammarly in second language (L2) writing is unknown. This study explored the use of Grammarly in the L2 writing context by comparing error frequency, error types…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Morgan, Gareth – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study examines the effectiveness of the provision of specific input on the use of verb conjugation and tenses to preparatory students at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. This is a well-documented grammatical issue for native Arabic speakers, and was undertaken due to this factor, as well as the students under…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Morphemes, Grammar, Semitic Languages
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Zhan, Huifang – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper investigated a large number of errors found in the topic-based writings of Chinese EFL learners, especially provided an analysis on frequent errors, to find useful pedagogical implications for English grammar teaching and writing instruction in Chinese EFL setting. Students' topic-based writings were examined by the author. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Shilo, Gila – Educational Research Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of the study was to examine the quality of open test questions directed to high school and college students. One thousand five hundred examination questions from various fields of study were examined using criteria based on the writing centers directions and guidelines. The 273 questions that did not fulfill the criteria were analyzed…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Questionnaires, Test Construction, High School Students
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Phuket, Pimpisa Rattanadilok Na; Othman, Normah Binti – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Writing is the most difficult skill in English, so most EFL students tend to make errors in writing. In assisting the learners to successfully acquire writing skill, the analysis of errors and the understanding of their sources are necessary. This study attempts to explore the major sources of errors occurred in the writing of EFL students. It…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Manokaran, Janaki; Ramalingam, Chithra; Adriana, Karen – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research is a corpus-based study of secondary and college ESL Malaysian learner's written work by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Past Tense Auxiliary "Be". This research studied the past tense auxiliary "be", types of past tense auxiliary "be" errors and frequency of past tense auxiliary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Morphemes, Verbs
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Jabulani, Sibanda – South African Journal of Education, 2014
The study reports on challenges related to the use of the language of attribution in academic essay writing by Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students at Rhodes University, as a microcosm of similar challenges faced by university students elsewhere. The study content-analysed 150 essays written by 50 PGCE students taking the course…
Descriptors: Essays, Teaching Methods, College Students, Course Descriptions
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Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2014
Developmental composition courses serve a sizable and growing number of Generation 1.5 students, or long-term U.S. resident language learners, and it is believed that language challenges may be part of Generation 1.5 writers' difficulty in controlling the academic register. The current study investigates possible similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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