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Yoon, Chae Won; Chon, Yuah V. – English Teaching, 2022
To investigate L2 adolescent learners' use of machine translation (MT), an MT error correction (EC) test was developed, based on the analysis of MT errors arising from translating the learners' L1 of middle school EFL textbooks. Learners were also asked to report on their use of MT EC strategies on the EC task. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Translation, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Proficiency
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Daniels, Lia M.; Kennedy, Kathleen E. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) is an invaluable resource for students and faculty members in the social sciences. However, many students and researchers fail to recognize the value of APA style in supporting writing excellence. In this research note we describe an innovative pedagogical approach to APA style…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Writing for Publication
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Almusharraf, Norah; Alotaibi, Hind – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2021
Committing errors is expected in the development of language acquisition and learning; however, there is limited research that contributes to the literature on the effect of gender of English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. This study explored the gender differences in EFL students' writing using two approaches: human evaluation and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Inansugan, Kei; Sajonia, Kethelle; Pastolero, Nelson – Online Submission, 2021
This study mainly explored the use of Discourse Markers (DMs) in journalistic writings and the factors that prompted the BSED English students of CVSC Maragusan to commit errors. This study employed the qualitative research. Ten (10) informants were part of the writing assessment and phone interview and were chosen through purposive sampling. For…
Descriptors: Journalism, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W. – International TESOL Journal, 2021
The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to examine how Chinese learners develop in their use and misuse of English modal verbs from Grade 7 to 9. Specifically, it examines form-function connections and explores the factors behind learners' development. The main focus is on the modal verbs "can," "could," "will," "would,"…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Marissa, Dian N.; Hamid, Shazia – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
This action research examined the process of integrating students' out-of-school digital literacy into a second language composition class and the role of social mediation in developing learner agency. It involved EFL students with pre-basic and basic proficiency (pre-A1 to A1-A2 on the CEFR level) in a Saudi Arabian university. Using socially…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Technological Literacy, Informal Education, English (Second Language)
Khan, Jalal Uddin – Online Submission, 2019
Having hardly learnt any English or having at best learnt wrong English (which is worse than no English) during their junior and secondary school years and having little or no exposure to English outside their classrooms, and partly due to certain weaknesses and shortcomings in what the teachers teach and how they teach, college students in some…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spelling, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
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Lahuerta, Ana – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper examines written language accuracy in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and a non-CLIL instruction context including grade and gender in the analysis. Essays written by 393 third and fourth year CLIL and non-CLIL secondary education students were evaluated by two measures of second language (L2) accuracy: error-free…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
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Vakili, Shokoufeh; Ebadi, Saman – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Theoretically grounded in Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of mind, Dynamic Assessment (DA) provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate different aspects of learners' developmental trajectory, including the ways they overcome their errors. As a qualitative inquiry into the nature of errors reflecting learners' development in academic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing
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Shousha, Amal Ibrahim; Farrag, Nahed Moussa; Althaqafi, Abeer Sultan – English Language Teaching, 2020
This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and becoming efficient writers. The importance of this research stems from the fact that, it is a comparative study that shows the differences…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Feedback (Response)
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Sevilla-Morales, Henry; Gamboa-Mena, Roy – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2019
This study examines future teachers' theoretical reflections on Critical Incidents and how these link to Costa Rica's English teaching system. Participants included 30 senior college students from an English teaching program. Using narrative research techniques, the authors have concluded that: (1) spaces for reflection must be created in EFL so…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Incidents Method, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Morgan, Gareth – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study examines the effectiveness of the provision of specific input on the use of verb conjugation and tenses to preparatory students at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. This is a well-documented grammatical issue for native Arabic speakers, and was undertaken due to this factor, as well as the students under…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Morphemes, Grammar, Semitic Languages
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Baldinger, Erin E.; Campbell, Matthew P.; Graif, Foster – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2018
Effectively leading whole-class mathematics discussions is made more difficult when students' contributions are incomplete, imprecise, or not yet correct, and not easily correctable--what we call "errors." Through purposefully designed opportunities to investigate, enact, and reflect on teaching, teacher candidates (TCs) can develop…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Error Patterns, Error Correction
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Austin, Traci L.; Sigmar, Lucia S.; Mehta, Gurinder B.; Shirk, Jennifer L. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2018
This study investigates the impact of McGraw-Hill's "Connectâ„¢ LearnSmartAchieve" ("LSA") on student writing outcomes at a regional AACSB-accredited business school. The authors analyzed a total of 172 student writing samples before and after the introduction of selected "LSA" modules in six junior-level business…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Business Schools, Writing (Composition), Business Communication
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