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Download full textSaud, Wafa Ismail – English Language Teaching, 2018
The aim of the study was to examine the lexical errors made by EFL students. The technique for eliciting information employed was an achievement test. A sample of 30 Saudi female students was asked to write essays in English that were assessed by the researcher. The students were all majoring in English in the third year at King Khalid University.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sriwantaneeyakul, Suttawan – English Language Teaching, 2018
Translation ability requires many language skills to produce an accurate and complete text; however, one important skill, critical reading in the research, has been neglected. This research, therefore, employed the explanatory sequential mixed method to investigate the differences in Thai-English translation ability between students with a high…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Translation, Semantics
Ghasemi, Hadis; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
Both lack of time and the need to translate texts for numerous reasons brought about an increase in studying machine translation with a history spanning over 65 years. During the last decades, Google Translate, as a statistical machine translation (SMT), was in the center of attention for supporting 90 languages. Although there are many studies on…
Descriptors: Translation, Indo European Languages, Second Languages, English
Uçar, Serpil; Yükselir, Ceyhun – English Language Teaching, 2017
This research was conducted to investigate how frequently Turkish advanced learners of English use the logical connector "thus" in their academic prose and to investigate whether it was overused, underused or misused semantically in comparison to English native speakers. The data were collected from three corpora; Corpus of Contemporary…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cabrera Solano, Paola Alexandra; Gonzalez Torres, Paul Fernando; Ochoa Cueva, Cesar Augusto; Quinonez Beltran, Ana Lucia; Castillo Cuesta, Luz Mercedes; Solano Jaramillo, Lida Mercedes; Espinosa Jaramillo, Franklin Oswaldo; Arias Cordova, Maria Olivia – English Language Teaching, 2014
Extensive studies have been conducted regarding mother tongue (L1) interference and developing English writing skills. This study, however, aims to investigate the influence of the Spanish language on second language (L2) writing skills at several Ecuadorian senior high schools in Loja. To achieve this, 351 students and 42 teachers from second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Writing Skills, Interference (Language)
Wu, Wen – English Language Teaching, 2008
Although Communicative Language Teaching is accepted by many English teachers in China as one of the most effective approach in English language teaching, there are still a number of misunderstandings about it. By comparing Johnstone; Sato and Kleinsasser and Thompson as well as Spada, this article focuses on four of the main misunderstandings,…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Semantics
