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Mohammed Ali Mohsen – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Writing in a language different from one's mother tongue is a daunting task. The same challenge may apply to languages that have diglossic features whose spoken form differs from the written form. This article investigates Arab students' writing behaviors (fluency, pauses, and revision) in response to an argumentative composition in their L1…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Native Language, Arabic, Language Fluency
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Roger William Anderson – Journal of International Students, 2024
Educators of International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) have been overlooked, erroneously. As teacher educators, their work is exponentially important to North American universities. A multiple case study examined three ITA Educators' ideologies, involving data from two interviews -one being a stimulated recall using classroom observations…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Anneleis Humphries; Catherine Smith; Julie Choi – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia face numerous barriers to successful tertiary education. One key challenge is developing critical literacy skills beyond basic language proficiency. Critical literacy empowers students to understand power relations, critique underlying assumptions and explore issues of belonging -- factors crucial…
Descriptors: Refugees, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Attiyat, Nazzem Mohammad Abdullah – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Reading opens up wide-reaching paths for knowledge as it deepens the feelings of empathy. Therefore, it represents a unique skill consists of a mixture of several procedures that encourage the interaction with printed words for content and pleasure. The current study tries to identify the impact of pleasure reading on enhancing writing achievement…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Writing Achievement, Empathy, Reading Comprehension
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Su, Wei – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
This paper examines how interpreting quality is evaluated by peer students in an English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting class. In the study, 18 students received training on how to evaluate interpreting based on three quality components: accuracy, presentation and target language quality. Then, they were asked to evaluate three translation…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Interpretive Skills, English (Second Language), Chinese
Mehany, Abdelkareem Ali Abdelnaeim – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of Differentiated Instruction (DI) on English writing fluency of the First Year Secondary Al-Azhar Students. To answer the study questions, the researcher adopted the quasi-experimental approach (One-Group Design). The study participants from Al-Azhar Secondary Stage students in Sohag Governorate.…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Secondary School Students, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)
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Owens, Sarah J.; Thacker, Justine M.; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Speech disfluencies can guide the ways in which listeners interpret spoken language. Here, we examined whether three-year-olds, five-year-olds, and adults use filled pauses to anticipate that a speaker is likely to refer to a novel object. Across three experiments, participants were presented with pairs of novel and familiar objects and heard a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
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Ockey, Gary J.; Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny – Applied Linguistics, 2021
A challenge of large-scale oral communication assessments is to feasibly assess a broad construct that includes interactional competence. One possible approach in addressing this challenge is to use a spoken dialog system (SDS), with the computer acting as a peer to elicit a ratable speech sample. With this aim, an SDS was built and four trained…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, Language Fluency, Language Tests
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Assiri, Ahmad I.; Siddiqui, Ahlullah – English Language Teaching, 2021
This research aims to assess the importance of Extensive Reading (ER) in developing reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and speaking fluency among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at King Khalid University (KKU). Most EFL students appear to be under pressure and confront anxiety while acquiring English language competency in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development
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Orellana, Anymir; Arguello, Georgina; Kanzki-Veloso, Elda; Wojnas, Katarzyna – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2021
Automated real-time captions and subtitles are useful for implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Checkpoint 1.2 that suggests offering a text-based alternative to auditory information for all learners to access the content equally. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the "Microsoft PowerPoint Live"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Inclusion, Visual Aids, Spanish
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Eren, Ömer; Kiliç, Mehmet; Bada, Erdogan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Language learners' actual speech performances constitute an essential aspect of studies on second language learning and teaching. Although there is ample research on fluency and pauses in English, current literature does not touch on this issue from a multilingual perspective by comparing both read and spontaneous speech performances. In this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Semitic Languages, Turkish
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Torres Clark, Jane; Chrispeels, Janet H. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: This study explored principals' leadership actions from three leadership frameworks, instructional, socio-cultural and cultural-psychological, to understand how each contributes to influencing teachers' work and learning opportunities for Hispanic English learners. Design/methodology/approach: The research was conducted as a case study,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Principals, English Language Learners, Leadership Styles
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Werle, Danielle; Byrd, Courtney T. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptual ratings and performance evaluations of students who do and do not stutter by professors who require oral presentations. Additionally, this study sought to investigate the influence of behaviors related to communication competence on perceptual and evaluative ratings. Method: One…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Stuttering
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Reynolds, Barry Lee; Yu, Melissa H. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
The present study exemplifies the potential of International Corner Speed Chatting activities to enhance English fluency when local students use English as an international language (EIL) with other local as well as international students. For data collection during the activity, classroom observation through video recording and photography was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
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Jan, Jie-Sheng; Lomeli, Arlett – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Indigenous peoples of Taiwan, the most disadvantaged of the minority groups, account for only about 2.4% of the total population. Within the Minnan dominant society of Taiwan, the Indigenous minority groups are confronted by critical language loss often attributed to cultural and structural assimilation factors. This study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups, Language Maintenance
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