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Thompson, Amelyn A.; Renandya, Willy A. – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2020
The role of gesture in second language acquisition (SLA) has recently become a promising area of research, characterized by the growing number of empirical research studies that examine the potential of incorporating gestures in such areas as the teaching of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. This paper focuses on how gesture can be…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Khan, Jalal Uddin – Online Submission, 2019
Having hardly learnt any English or having at best learnt wrong English (which is worse than no English) during their junior and secondary school years and having little or no exposure to English outside their classrooms, and partly due to certain weaknesses and shortcomings in what the teachers teach and how they teach, college students in some…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spelling, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
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Barone, Susan M.; Cargile, Carrie – English Teaching Forum, 2020
When it comes to L1 and L2 differences in second-language writing, some researchers are not fully convinced that there is a fundamental difference. However, when comparing L1 and L2 writing, many would agree that macro- and micro-level writing characteristics exist and overlap (Eckstein and Ferris 2018). This article identifies some of the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Issa, Sandra Tompson – English Teaching Forum, 2015
An understanding of noun positions in sentences can correct many recurring problems in the writing of English language learners. This article outlines an approach for anticipating and preventing these sorts of errors while providing a framework to explain the errors to students. For this approach to be successful, students need to have an…
Descriptors: Nouns, English Language Learners, Error Patterns, Grammar
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2015
Every language has its own rhythm. Unlike many other languages in the world, English depends on the correct pronunciation of stressed and unstressed or weakened syllables recurring in the same phrase or sentence. Mastering the rhythm of English makes speaking more effective. Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Syllables, Grammar, Phonology
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Dormer, Jan Edwards – Journal of Adult Education, 2013
Increased English learner accuracy can be achieved by leading students through six stages of awareness. The first three awareness stages build up students' motivation to improve, and the second three provide learners with crucial input for change. The final result is "sustained language awareness," resulting in ongoing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Student Motivation
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Bulamur, Ayse Naz – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2013
I examine how American students respond to foreign instructors, who teach English Composition and Research Writing. I discuss how minority teacher's cultural, lingual, and ethnic differences interfere with classroom dynamics in the United States. I rely on my experiences as a Turkish instructor of composition at the University of Wisconsin,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Foreign Nationals
del Pilar Agustin Llach, Maria – Multilingual Matters, 2011
Lexical errors are a determinant in gaining insight into vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary use and writing quality assessment. Lexical errors are very frequent in the written production of young EFL learners, but they decrease as learners gain proficiency. Misspellings are the most common category, but formal errors give way to semantic-based…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Semantics, Writing Tests, Error Analysis (Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Spelling error corpora can be collected from students' written essays, homework, dictations, translations, tests and lecture notes. Spelling errors can be classified into whole word errors, faulty graphemes and faulty phonemes in which graphemes are deleted, added, reversed or substituted. They can be used for identifying phonological and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spelling, Error Patterns
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Gao, Sixia – International Education Studies, 2009
Errors made by language learners in learning a language are regarded as failure of competence. Linguists believe that errors are committed when the learner makes use of the learning strategies. By analyzing the learner's errors, we can better understand his inter-language and his learning process. It's necessary to understand the roots of errors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
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Gilmore, Alex – ELT Journal, 2009
Large corpora such as the British National Corpus and the COBUILD Corpus and Collocations Sampler are now accessible, free of charge, online and can be usefully incorporated into a process writing approach to help develop students' writing skills. This article aims to familiarize readers with these resources and to show how they can be usefully…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Process Approach (Writing), Computational Linguistics, Internet
Xie, Fang; Jiang, Xue-mei – Online Submission, 2007
This paper makes a study of error analysis and its implementation in the EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom teaching. It starts by giving a systematic review of the concepts and theories concerning EA (Error Analysis), the various reasons causing errors are comprehensively explored. The author proposes that teachers should employ…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Futagi, Yoko; Deane, Paul; Chodorow, Martin; Tetreault, Joel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This paper describes the first prototype of an automated tool for detecting collocation errors in texts written by non-native speakers of English. Candidate strings are extracted by pattern matching over POS-tagged text. Since learner texts often contain spelling and morphological errors, the tool attempts to automatically correct them in order to…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Computational Linguistics
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Lott, David – ELT Journal, 1983
Areas of contradiction and controversy over error analysis are discussed, and an interference error analysis project is described, giving a detailed definition of interference error. Several practical approaches to teaching out interference errors are outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
LDA of Minnesota, 2004
This is the second of two issues focused on teaching beginning reading skills to adults--both native and non-native English speakers. According to the latest research in reading, one of the best strategies for improving reading skills is systematic, explicit instruction in decoding skills or phonics. Although many critics have argued that the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Error Patterns, Phonics, English (Second Language)
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