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Direct linkQiuyun Lu; Alice Deignan – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners' awareness of them. To investigate this, we analyzed 72 argumentative essays written in English by a group of 37 intermediate Chinese university students of English. We identified metaphors using an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wei Zhou; Lay Hoon Ang – SAGE Open, 2024
Malaysia is a multilingual and multiethnic country with a substantial population of ethnic Chinese, who use standardized languages such as Malay, English, and Mandarin, as well as various Chinese dialects in their daily lives within and beyond Chinese communities. Cantonese is a community language that significantly impacts the lives of local…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Sino Tibetan Languages, Foreign Countries
Albino, Gabriel – SAGE Open, 2017
This study was an attempt to assess how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) improved their speaking fluency in a task-based language teaching (TBLT) approach used with ninth-grade learners at PUNIV-Cazenga, a high school in Luanda. In a case study design that used picture-description tasks, learners' speeches were audio recorded before…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
