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Na Tao; Ying Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Task design features have different effects on second language (L2) production and can be adopted for different pedagogical purposes. However, the synergistic effects of task features were left unexplored in the extant task-based literature. The present study investigated the synergistic effects of two task design features, namely, prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Yang, Hui-Yu – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2022
The present study was to explore whether dynamic visualizations enriched with visuospatial cues can optimize learners' cognitive processing of mechanical systems. The animated conditions and cueing patterns were the independent variables with an attempt to investigate their impacts on retention and transfer tests. Either dynamic or static…
Descriptors: Visualization, Visual Stimuli, Spatial Ability, Cues
Yang, Huiyu – Frontiers of Education in China, 2019
The relevant studies using a cross sectional view of speech organs supplemented with visuospatial cues and verbal text to explore EFL learners' learning effectiveness and behavior through mobile devices when learning English phonetics are scarce. This study was attempted to investigate whether the presence of visuospatial cues can benefit EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Handheld Devices
Alshammari, Hammad Ali; Ahmed, Elsayed Abdalla; Shouk, Mukhled Atta Abu – English Language Teaching, 2020
Studying English literature is interrelated to studying English as a foreign language (EFL), and thus incorporating literary texts into EFL learning curricula is important for providing EFL learners with the necessary language skills and emotional growth. However, EFL learners prefer to avoid studying English literature due to several challenges…
Descriptors: English Literature, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Difficulty Level
Rungsinanont, Sathirasak – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
The objectives of the study are to investigate the most significant contributory factors affecting Engineering students' reading ability in regard to journals, and to identify the problems thus encountered when they read English language journals. The participants in this study consisted of 60 Engineering students who were majoring in Industrial…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Content Area Reading, Reading Ability
Yang, Hui-Yu – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
The present empirical study investigated whether progressive visuospatial cues presented in a self-regulatory mode could assist learners in comprehending the operation of a mechanical system. In the present study, the interactivity and cueing were the independent variables in terms of investigating their effectiveness on retention and transfer…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Stimuli, Comprehension, Retention (Psychology)
Shepard-Carey, Leah – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
Inference-making is integral to reading comprehension, defined as information 'retrieved or generated during reading to fill in information left implicit in a text'. However, there are few studies regarding the inferencing of young emergent multilinguals that account for multilingualism and culture, attend to the learning processes influenced by…
Descriptors: Inferences, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Darabi Bazvand, Ali – Cogent Education, 2019
The present study examined the effect of L1 domain-relevant knowledge on L2 reading comprehension texts among student teachers of ELT (N = 90), drawn from a population of 270 student teachers studying at an undergraduate program in some state universities in Iran. A proficiency test was applied to control language proficiency of students. Among…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Song, Donggil – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of sequencing instructional materials and learners' prior knowledge on learning ESL (English as a second language) through an online learning course. 121 fifth-grade students from an elementary school in Korea participated in the study. Each participant was allocated to one cell of a 2 × 2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grade 5, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Gandhi-Lee, Eshani N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Because language provides the framework through which knowledge is constructed, it is crucial to consider the ways in which students with limited English proficiencies are able to express their understanding. English language learners (ELLs) make up a significant portion of the student body in the education system and represent many ethnic and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, STEM Education, Student Evaluation, Science Tests
Yang, Hui-Yu – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The studies regarding using a cross sectional view of speech organs enriched with attention cueing and written text to probe learners' learning efficiency and behavior through mobile phones is scant. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the presence of attention cueing can benefit learners with different amounts of prior knowledge in…
Descriptors: Cues, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Attention
Tejada R., Venecia – Online Submission, 2016
This research is focused on the difficulties on English Literature Comprehension for modern language students at UASD Language School and it is aimed to identify each one of those difficulties to be further studied and analyzed in order to look for a possible solution to the problem. This group has observed that a great number of students are…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Bilikozen, Neslihan; Akyel, Ayse – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
This study explores the relative contribution to EFL reading comprehension of the following individual-difference variables: prior knowledge, topic interest, linguistic proficiency, gender, reading motivation, and metacognitive awareness. It also investigates the relationship between the aforementioned individual differences and the role of text…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Reading Motivation, Prior Learning, Second Language Learning
Wu, Xiaoli; Lowyck, Joost; Sercu, Lies; Elen, Jan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: The study deepened our understanding of how students' self-ef?cacy beliefs contribute to the context of teaching English as a foreign language in the framework of cognitive mediational paradigm at a ?ne-tuned task-speci?c level. Aim: The aim was to examine the relationship among task complexity, self-ef?cacy beliefs, domain-related…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Koehler, Natalya A.; Thompson, Ann D.; Phye, Gary D. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This is a design study meant to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating three rather different theoretical perspectives for future efforts in multimedia instructional design. A multimedia instructional grammar program contextualized within the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) was developed and evaluated. The program design was…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Instructional Design, Geography, Instructional Effectiveness
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