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Sendur, Kristin A.; van Drie, Jannet; van Boxtel, Carla – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
Background: This study focused on undergraduate L2 students' performance in written historical reasoning, particularly written historical contextualization, before and after participating in a historical reasoning course. The Content and Language Integrated Learning course was designed using a cognitive apprenticeship model and was based on…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Foreign Countries
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Fu, Chunxia – English Language Teaching, 2021
Cohesion is a very important part of learning English. The Cohesion Theory of Halliday and Hasan is of great importance for people to acquire the knowledge of cohesion. This study is aimed at applying this Cohesion Theory in CET-4 listening comprehension which is an important test for Chinese college students. This study uses the test papers of…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Park, Mi Sun – TESL-EJ, 2021
Previous research has documented positive effects of pre-task planning on task-based performance, commonly analyzed in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency, in an L2. However, the sources of planning have rarely been examined in the research of task-based language teaching. The present study explored EFL learners' oral performance across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Han, Ye; Xu, Yueting – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
The dissonance between teachers' substantial effort to provide feedback and students' under-engagement with feedback has been consistently reported in higher education. A contributing factor to this disparity students' lack of feedback literacy, however, has been under-researched. This case study of two Chinese undergraduate students therefore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Sharma, Bal Krishna – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
This article investigates the language learning desire of multilingual tourism workers. The data were drawn from two sites in Nepal: an English for occupational purposes class and workplace interactions during treks. The article shows that the male tourism workers use their claims of heterosexual relationships with foreign female tourists as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tourism, Employee Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Ballance, Oliver James – ReCALL, 2021
Narrow reading has the potential to reduce vocabulary load and to provide rich opportunities for developing collocation knowledge, but these benefits rely on narrow reading increasing lexical repetition within a text. Hence, interest in narrow reading has been limited by the relatively small lexical effect of narrowing reading by topic (Nation,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Teaching Methods
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Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Laasonen, Marja; Smolander, Sini; Kunnari, Sari; Arkkila, Eva; Service, Elisabet – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: The role of domain-general short-term memory (STM) in language development remains controversial. A previous finding from the HelSLI study on children with developmental language disorder (DLD) suggested that not only verbal but also non-verbal STM for temporal order is related to language acquisition in monolingual children with DLD.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children, Developmental Disabilities
Arsyad, Safnil; Syahrial; Hakim, Husnul – Online Submission, 2021
This study is aimed at investigating how Indonesian writers in multidiscipline use reporting verbs (henceforth RVs) and reporting signals (henceforth RSs) in their research article introductions in English. Fifty research articles (henceforth RAs) were chosen on purpose from the recent edition of five different English language journals in…
Descriptors: Citations (References), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Verbs
Karami, Amirreza – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to investigate the effects of watching text-relevant video segments on reading comprehension of a culturally unfamiliar text when technical words are present or absent. Therefore, 44 adult English Language Learners (ELLs) with higher-intermediate to advanced English language…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Video Technology, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Clarkin, Erika E. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The present dissertation sets out to investigate the acquisition of variation in future-time expression by English speakers L2 learners of Spanish in a high school setting. I explore the variable use of the morphological future, the periphrastic future, and the present indicative to express the future time in Spanish by the participants. A total…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Levi King – ProQuest LLC, 2021
An intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) system is an application to provide users instruction and practice as they learn a second language. In order to be more effective and more widely adopted, ICALL must better align with second language acquisition (SLA) research, moving away from menu-based or fill-in-the-blank exercises and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Sentences, Educational Technology, Language Acquisition
Siripun Jandragolica – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The Inclusive Reading Club for Young Children presented the study of organizing the reading club activities as an inclusive setting that promote the literacy skills and language development (such as hold books, re-tell story, comprehensive reading skills, response to wh-questions, writing their name) of young Dual language learners, child with…
Descriptors: Young Children, Second Language Learning, Students with Disabilities, Picture Books
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Misun Seo – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study examined Korean learners' production of intervocalic English biconsonantal clusters consisting of /p/, /t/, /k/, /m/, /n/, or /[eng] / followed by /l/ or /[voiced alveolar approximant]/. The results of the production experiment showed several factors influencing Korean learners' production. First, Korean learners' production was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Phonemes, Korean
Eman Bosaad – ProQuest LLC, 2021
We are facing a huge linguistic and cultural change as a result of the spread of English language in KSA. It has been an important criterion to succeed in education or to obtain an opportunity in the Saudi job market (Al- Jarf, 2008; Al-Seghayer, 2014a; Al-Seghayer, 2014b; Rahman, 2013). Therefore, the study of teacher beliefs is important as they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Females
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Anna Krulatz; Anne Dahl – Educational Linguistics, 2021
Similar to other European countries, Norway has opened its borders to large numbers of refugees in the recent years. Norwegian language training is seen as serving an important role in the process of resettlement and integration into the Norwegian society and constitutes a central component of the obligatory, two-year Introduction Program for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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