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Differentiating Learner's English Proficiency in Oral Presentation Focusing on Textual Markers
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Sasithorn Limgomolvilas – rEFLections, 2024
Creating its own learner corpus, this research proposed to analyze and classify the transition markers used in solo presentation by 30 Thai engineering students based on Hyland (2019)'s Marker Categorization in Textual Metadiscourse. This research also aimed to identify and compare the quantities of individual transition markers among three groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language
Effects of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning on Foreign Language Learners' Speaking Skill Development
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Rui Li – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Despite the growing body of research regarding the effectiveness of MALL (mobile-assisted language learning) technologies on foreign language (FL) learners' speaking skill development, a comprehensively quantitative meta-analysis regarding the effect sizes of these studies is still lacking. To solve the problem, this study reported results based…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Skill Development, Speech Communication, Second Language Instruction
Are Reading Interventions for English Language Learners Effective? A Meta-Analysis
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Ludwig, Caralyn; Guo, Kan; Georgiou, George K. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
Despite concerted efforts to improve the reading skills of English language learners (ELLs), it remains unclear if the interventions they have been receiving produce any positive results. Thus, the purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine how effective reading interventions are in improving ELLs' reading skills and what factors may influence…
Descriptors: Intervention, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Within- and Cross-Language Relations between Oral Language Proficiency and School Outcomes in Bilingual Children with an Immigrant Background
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Prevoo, Mariëlle J. L.; Malda, Maike; Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – Review of Educational Research, 2016
Sixteen meta-analyses were conducted to examine relations of typically developing bilingual immigrant-background children's oral language proficiency in their first and second language with the school outcomes of early literacy (k = 41), reading (k = 61), spelling (k = 9), mathematics (k = 9), and academic achievement (k = 9). Moderate to strong…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Immigrants, Bilingualism
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) in L2 Oral Proficiency Development: A Meta-Analysis
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Lin, Huifen – ReCALL, 2015
The ever growing interest in the development of foreign or second (L2) oral proficiency in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) classroom has resulted in a large body of studies looking at both the direct and indirect effects of CMC interventions on the acquisition of oral competences. The present study employed a quantitative meta-analytic…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
EFL Classroom Peer Assessment: Training Effects on Rating and Commenting
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Saito, Hidetoshi – Language Testing, 2008
This study examined the effects of training on peer assessment and comments provided regarding oral presentations in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms. In Study 1, both the treatment and control groups received instruction on skill aspects, but only the treatment group was given an additional 40-minute training on how to rate…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language)