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Yurtbasi, Metin – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2017
Turkish students tend to make considerable stress placement errors when pronouncing English polysyllabic words because of the interference of the traditional word stress patterns of their mother tongue. They usually misplace stresses in their utterance, both either as a result of their native pronunciation habits or their lack of stress-placing…
Descriptors: Turkish, Phonology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gimeno, Ana, Ed. – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2011
"The EUROCALL Review" is published online biannually by the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). This issue offers regular sections on: (1) up-to-date information on Special Interest Groups; (2) reports on on-going CALL or CALL-related R&D projects in which EUROCALL members participate; (3) reports…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)
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Guichon, Nicolas; McLornan, Sinead – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper presents results of a pilot study investigating the effects of multimodality upon second language comprehension with a view to informing future instructional design. An experiment was designed to compare the understanding of an authentic BBC audiovisual recording, which was presented to four groups of French undergraduate students (N =…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Design, Interference (Language)
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Chang, Yu-Chia; Chang, Jason S.; Chen, Hao-Jan; Liou, Hsien-Chin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
Previous work in the literature reveals that EFL learners were deficient in collocations that are a hallmark of near native fluency in learner's writing. Among different types of collocations, the verb-noun (V-N) one was found to be particularly difficult to master, and learners' first language was also found to heavily influence their collocation…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Verbs, Nouns, Foreign Countries
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Porte, Graeme K. – ELT Journal, 1995
This paper reports on a small-scale study of the outcomes generated by 15 underachieving English-as-a-Foreign-Language university writers copying text displayed on a computer monitor under pressure of time. Analysis of student's copied texts showed that various inaccuracies that were not in the original had passed into the copied version,…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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Tseng, Yen-Chu; Liou, Hsien-Chin – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
Misuse of English conjunction related to incoherent writing, according to the literature, comes from learners' first language interference, improper mechanical exercises, and misleading lists of connectors in textbooks demonstrated as if mutually interchangeable without contextual constraints. Form-focused instruction with explicit semantic,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Student Attitudes, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
Kitao, Kenji; Kitao, S. Kathleen – 1995
The collection of papers on the teaching of English as a second language includes: "Teaching English in Japan"; "Reading and Evaluating Quantitative Research"; "Transformational Generative Grammar and Language Teaching"; "Process and Social Aspects of Writing: Theory and Classroom Application";…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics
Stewart, Elizabeth, Ed.; And Others – Institute of Language in Education Journal, 1994
This journal is intended to assist language educators in Hong Kong schools in developing and maintaining high standards of instruction in both English and Chinese. The 11 issues presented here contain articles, some in English and some in Chinese, on a variety of language education topics, including: language education planning; instructional…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language), Computer Assisted Instruction