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Fawzi Eltayeb Yousuf Ahmed; Nawal Mosa Mohammed Abdallah; Sarah Osman Eltom Hamed; Fatima Mohamed Ali Hamed – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
The current study attempts to explore and analyze errors of word choice made in written language by Saudi undergraduates at King Khalid University. It additionally tries to determine the probable sources of errors and provide remedies to them. The study focuses on word choice errors in four areas, viz., literal translation, collocation, subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Shelley Staples; Anh Dang; Hui Wang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Learner corpora have been used extensively in corpus research to identify gaps and errors within learner writing but have rarely been directly used in corpus-informed instruction (CII). Importantly, scholars in CII have pointed out that "it is as important to see what learners can do as well as what they can't" when using learner corpora…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Learning Analytics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Taylor, Charlie – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Whether or not to teach grammar explicitly is an issue that has long been debated in the field of SLA. There seems to be a growing consensus among many researchers now in support of embedding some element of explicit instruction within a communicative curriculum. The main arguments in support of explicit instruction are threefold: two widely cited…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Meta Analysis, Grammar, Second Language Learning
James Coburn; Simon Borg – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
The national 'Competence for Quality' in-service programme in Norway aims to enhance the subject knowledge and instructional competences of primary and secondary school teachers across subjects. The programme is evaluated annually through a teacher survey which, however, does not capture in depth how the programme impacts on participants. This…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady; Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal; Samia Khalifa Abdullah – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: English as a foreign langauge (EFL) students find it difficult to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire on translation in the practical world. Therefore, this study explored if training in pretranslation techniques (PTTs) (syntactic parsing) as suggested by Almanna (2018) could improve the translation proficiency of Yemeni EFL…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ming Chen; Yongbing Liu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This corpus-based study investigates lexical richness in English writing by Chinese senior high school students. Lexical uses in 303 compositions were compared across three grades in terms of lexical sophistication, variation, density and errors. Timed compositions were sampled from Writing Corpus of English Learners, and the sample sizes of three…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, High School Students, Connected Discourse, Foreign Countries
Jeffrey Dawala Wilang; Jebamani Anthoney; Alvina Kullu Sulankey – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
This study examines high school students' beliefs about studying English, particularly their perceptions of language intelligence, aptitude, and age sensitivity in language learning. A total of 87 Year 12 students from a boys' school in Northeastern Thailand voluntarily participated in a pre-and post-intervention online language mindset…
Descriptors: High School Students, Error Patterns, Learning Processes, English (Second Language)
Xiaoluan Liu; Jixian Nie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present study compared bilingualism with bidialectalism in their respective impact on executive control, using a short-term language switching training paradigm for participants who were both bidialectals (Shanghainese-Mandarin Chinese) and bilinguals (Chinese-English). Twenty participants were assigned to a control group where no language…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Bilingualism, Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
Eva Thue Vold – Language Teaching Research, 2025
It is commonly agreed that learner target language output and spoken interaction are essential to communicative language learning. This video-based classroom observation study of five lower secondary schools in Norway investigated how second language (L2) English and third language (L3) French teachers responded to their students when they spoke…
Descriptors: French, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Qiaoling He; Isabel Oltra-Massuet – Language Teaching Research, 2024
As one type of the most extensively used sentences, English questions are must-learn grammatical structures for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). However, it is commonly seen that English learners across proficiency levels produce ungrammatical English questions. To determine the source of learners' erroneous production, we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Thompson, Amelyn A.; Renandya, Willy A. – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2020
The role of gesture in second language acquisition (SLA) has recently become a promising area of research, characterized by the growing number of empirical research studies that examine the potential of incorporating gestures in such areas as the teaching of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. This paper focuses on how gesture can be…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Samad, Mujahitha Abdul – English Language Teaching, 2022
In many parts of the world, learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL) often face language difficulties and challenges in their performance in learning. These challenges and errors have multiple forms and causes, covering various language and skills aspects. This study focuses on the types of grammatical…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Terzioglu, Yildiz; Bensen Bostanci, Hanife – SAGE Open, 2020
The present study aims to shed light on analyzing the types and the frequency of the written sentence errors committed by 58 tenth grade Turkish Cypriot English as a foreign language (EFL) students in two classrooms, that is, Class A and B at a public vocational high school in North Cyprus. A quasi-experimental design was employed in the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Tran Ngoc Quynh Phuong; Bao Trang Thi Nguyen; Thi Linh Giang Hoang; Vu Quynh Nhu Nguyen; Le Hoang Phuong Ngo – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
This article examines the use of prompt-based lexical collocations in opinion essays by Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) students. Fifty second-year English majors at a Vietnamese university wrote 100 opinion essays on two topics as progress tests. The AntConc programme (Anthony, 2020) was employed to identify the frequencies of use…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Factors Contributing to Speaking Anxiety and Anxiety Reduction Techniques in Thai Adult EFL Learners
Natthakit Suratin; Virasuda Sribayak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The aim of the study was to identify the factors that contribute to speaking anxiety in Thai adult EFL learners working in an online media company and enrolled in an English course provided by the company, as well as to discover the anxiety reduction techniques used by these learners. The results showed that significant contributors to speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication