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Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. Cecilia; Santo, Jonathan – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Spanish learners engaged in two-way interaction gap tasks where, through social interaction, they identified and defined low-frequency vocabulary. Participants (referred to as actors to differentiate them from task partners) completed two such tasks. Each time, they collaborated with different partners of varying degrees of Spanish proficiency and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Papaieronymou, Irini – Athens Journal of Education, 2017
This paper presents the results of a study which examined the role of particular tasks implemented through two instructional methods on college students' achievement in probability. A mixed methods design that utilized a pre-test (with multiple-choice items) and post-test (with multiple-choice and open-ended items) in treatment and control groups…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Academic Achievement, Probability
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Alsamani, Abdul-Aziz Saleh; Daif-Allah, Ayman Sabry – English Language Teaching, 2016
The aim of this paper is to study the impact of introducing an integrative pedagogical approach in the ESP classes on developing the English language vocabulary of Computer Science and Information Technology students in the College of Science, Qassim University. The study suggests a framework for an ESP course-design employing students' project…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Methods, English for Special Purposes, Control Groups
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Yazdani Moghaddam, Masoud; Fakhraee Faruji, Laleh – TESL-EJ, 2013
This study has been an attempt to investigate the impact of cooperative tasks on the lexical development of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Sixty male and female students, who had scored homogeneously in a teacher-made proficiency test, participated in this study. Both the control and the experimental groups participated in a multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Murphy, Philip – ReCALL, 2010
Despite the fact that the benefits of pair and group work for those espousing an interactionist view of second language learning are well documented (Lightbown & Spada, 1999; Long, 1981; Pica, 1994, 1996; Van Lier, 1996), learning environments exist in which students have no option but to study alone. Of particular interest for this research are…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning