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Angela Gardner; Karen Lichtman – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This study investigated how questioning strategies impact language learner performance. Specifically, it explored how questioning strategies influence (i) verb production and subject-verb agreement in the target language, and (ii) learner confidence in completing tasks without translation software. Sixty-eight novice language learners enrolled in…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Second Language Learning, Spanish, High School Students
Malihe YarAhmadi; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Traditional approaches to language assessment have been criticized for their inadequacy in taking account of language learners' potential for development. To obviate this pitfall in traditional assessment, language teachers and researchers have been paying increasing attention to dynamic assessment (DA), which is rooted in Vygotsky's (1978)…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
Eslami, Mehrnoosh; Sahragard, Rahman – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
The present research investigates the effect of self-regulatory strategy instruction on Iranian EFL learners' metadiscoursal writing abilities. To this purpose, 50 Iranian EFL intermediate learners were all native speakers of the Persian language learning the English language in an institute were selected via convenience random sampling.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing Skills
Namaziandost, Ehsan; Razmi, Mohammad Hasan; Atabekova, Anastasia; Shoustikova, Tatyana; Kussanova, Bibigul H. – Journal of Education, 2023
There has been an ongoing debate on the effectiveness of spaced and massed distribution instruction in second/foreign language learning. A number of studies in the literature have investigated the impacts of spacing effect on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' vocabulary acquisition. This study aims to expand the body of existing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development
Pornwiriyakit, Pornchai; Dandee, Warinthon – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This research aims to study the problems of translating word and sentence structures from English into Thai made by students and to solve the English-to-Thai translation problems occurred in the paper test. The samples consisted of 127 students majoring in English for International Communication at Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ghorbanpour, Elham; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Mohseni, Ahmad – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Uni-furcation of assessment and instruction has recently been realized in the form of purposeful assessment scenarios; Assessment [x-bar] Scenarios (analogous to Noam Chomsky's [x-bar] Theory!). [x-bar] here refers to any of the triple assessment scenarios including Assessment for Learning (AFL), Assessment as Learning (AAL), and Assessment of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Second Language Learning, Listening, Formative Evaluation
Na Liu; Jeferd Saong – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
The study examined the use of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in assessing Chinese as a second language and the challenges faced by teachers in the Chinese Language Scholarship (CLS) program. The Concurrent Triangulation Mixed Method Research was used in the study in which qualitative and quantitative data are collected simultaneously,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Kumar, Tribhuwan; Soozandehfar, Seyyed Mohammad Ali; Hashemifardnia, Arash; Mombeini, Rasoul – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Assessment has several advantages like involving students in learning and making them cognizant of their strengths and weaknesses. The effects of peer assessment and self-assessment as two main kinds of assessment have not examined on EFL learners' self-regulated learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills; therefore, the present…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lindstromberg, Seth; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Although retrieval of lexical forms is a prerequisite for language production, research of L2 vocabulary learning has focused much more on meanings and form-meaning mappings than on development of detailed, accessible mental representations of forms. This is particularly true with respect to multi-word items (MWIs). We report an experimental study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Investigating the Impact of Rater Training on Rater Errors in the Process of Assessing Writing Skill
Sata, Mehmet; Karakaya, Ismail – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
In the process of measuring and assessing high-level cognitive skills, interference of rater errors in measurements brings about a constant concern and low objectivity. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of rater training on rater errors in the process of assessing individual performance. The study was conducted with a…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Training, Comparative Analysis, Academic Language
Nakhon Kitjaroonchai; Pimolporn Sanitchai; Chomphunut Phutikettrkit – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
This study examined the relationships between reading assistant (RA) software usage, reading comprehension ability, and post-TOEIC reading scores among Thai EFL university students. Seventy-six students from a private international university in central Thailand participated. Data were collected from students' pre- and post-TOEIC reading scores…
Descriptors: Correlation, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Fluency
Zhao, Yongbin; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This article reports a classroom-based study of the effects of two types of corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of 3rd person "-s." One hundred and nine Chinese university students completed three communicative tasks: One group received implicit CF consisting of a single corrective move (implicit recasts), a second group received…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Namaziandost, Ehsan; Razmi, Mohammad Hasan; Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket; Pourhosein Gilakjani, Abbas – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the effect of using authentic materials on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' reading comprehension, reading motivation, and reading anxiety. In this study, 58 Iranian male EFL learners were selected and randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Both groups were pretested through a reading…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Pretests Posttests
Shirav, Anastasia; Nagai, Emi – English Language Teaching, 2022
A quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of inductive and deductive types of instruction in the acquisition of a complex grammatical structure, the passive voice. The participants were two groups (n = 34) of second-year Japanese students from a vocational school who had three treatment lessons designed for each group embedded into…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests
Using Processing Instruction to Teach English Reflexives to ESL Learners: A Computer Delivered Study
Rong Liu – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
The study examines the effects of using computer delivered Processing Instruction (PI) to teach English reflexives. Thirty intermediate ESL learners participated in the pretest-treatment-posttest study. Participants received the input-based PI activities. Gains were assessed by traditional offline tasks such as sentence interpretation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)