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Geng, Jingxin; Razali, Abu Bakar – English Language Teaching, 2022
Automated Writing Evaluation program (AWE) has gained increasing ground in ESL/EFL writing instruction because of its instructional features, such as the instant automated writing score system and the diagnostic corrective feedback in real-time for individual written drafts. However, there is little known about how the automated feedback provided…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
Cheng, Jianshan – English Language Teaching, 2022
New liberal arts refer to the reorganization of traditional liberal arts to realize the intersection and integration within liberal arts and between liberal arts and natural sciences. The characteristics of new liberal arts are mainly problem-orientation, cross-integration, new technology application and innovative development. Under the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
Patarapongsanti, Ampika; Thongsan, Nuchsara C.; Sukrutrit, Praweerata; Para, Chamnan; Saphanuchart, Nawarat – English Language Teaching, 2022
Effective written communication is not only a crucial skill for academic achievement but also for business context as it could lead to individual professional career success and profitable accomplishment. To achieve these goals requires concise and correct communication. This study, therefore, aims to explore the most frequently-made errors by 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Boonnoon, Sichabhat – English Language Teaching, 2020
One sub-type of collocations which is under-researched is binomials. The purposes of this study were to investigate Thai EFL students' knowledge of English binomials, determine the syntactic structure of the internal elements of binomials reported as most or least known by them, and test if the students' knowledge of binomials was significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Second Language Learning
Zhang, Fenghua – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigates the pragmatic development of the refusal strategies to the four different eliciting types (1 request, 1 suggestion, 1 invitation, and 1 offer) by Chinese English major students with low-intermediate language proficiency. The data was collected through written discourse completion tasks, and coded based on the modified…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ren, Junhong – English Language Teaching, 2022
Effective translation instruction is crucial to the improvement of translation competence and language abilities of undergraduates majoring in translation. On the basis of an analysis of the problems in translation teaching, this paper provides an overview of the development of translation teaching reform, and puts forward some suggestions on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2021
The term 'struggling language learner' is one that is usually ascribed to students who are trying, without much success to master the English language in an academic setting. As a case study, this study was carried out to gain insights into the 'struggles' of the struggling English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Ten students were selected…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Problems
RahmtAllah, Enas Abdelwahab Eltom – English Language Teaching, 2020
Writing is considered an essential learning tool for all content areas. However, to master and have excellent writing skills for EFL students of undergraduate programs is challenging. Cohesion and coherence are both crucial textual elements to master writing. The present study examined coherence in English essays written by 46 female Saudi EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Undergraduate Students
Ismail, Fouzul Kareema Mohamed; Zubairi, Ainol Madziah Bt. – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper presents the findings of a study that intended to seek the content validity (CV) evidence of an instrument to measure the reading ability of university students in Sri Lanka. The reading passages and items were adapted from CEFR aligned Learning Resource Network (LRN) materials. The items were designed based on the cognitive processing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Items, Content Validity, Reading Tests
Li, Chili; Wang, Yuehua; Qian, Long; Shang, Zhenru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper reports on the results of a quantitative study that was aimed to measure the use of socio-cultural strategies in learning English writing among a group of 155 Chinese university English major students. This quantitative survey was informed by the socio-cultural theory that holds that L2 learning is a mediational process in which a…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wang, Chen; Yang, Jingjing – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study intends to find out how the retention of new vocabulary items could be affected by the item type (collocations versus single words), association strength between collocates and the collocate-node relationship. 101 Chinese EFL learners encountered the new items in paired-associate format. Participants were assigned to three groups:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alshammari, Reem Fuhaid – English Language Teaching, 2022
The main aim of the present study is to develop first year university students' meta-cognitive reading comprehension using inquiry-based learning strategy. Subjects of the study were 106 (53 males, 53 females) first year university students enrolled in two classrooms at colleges representing urban and sub-urban areas in Shaqra University. The…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Metacognition, Pretests Posttests
Xue, Mei; Saffari, Narges; Motevalli, Saeid – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper reviews the literature on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research in 15 CSSCI foreign language journals in China's CNKI database over the last two decades. The data have been quantified and visualized with Citespace. This paper analyzes research advances and themes, and then puts forward suggestions based on the current situation…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Masters Theses
Saleh, Alaa Mamoun; Meccawy, Zilal – English Language Teaching, 2021
Distance education is becoming more in demand at universities all around the world in general and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in particular, than ever before. This study aimed at highlighting the students' perceptions of cheating on a distance learning programme at King Abdulaziz University (KAU). The study will further explore the ways…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Lertchalermtipakoon, Passamon; Wongsubun, Umarungsri; Kawinkoonlasate, Pongpatchara – English Language Teaching, 2021
This research had 3 objectives. First, to discover the main skills students studying in Tourism (TR) and Hospitality Industry (HI) need to successfully use English. Second, to ascertain the essential skills that students need in English language acquisition. Last, to investigate which skills students found to be the most problematic in English…
Descriptors: Vocational English (Second Language), Tourism, Hospitality Occupations, Second Language Learning