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Haron, Haeza; Kasuma, Shaidatul Akma Adi; Akhiar, Ayuni – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2021
This study uses WhatsApp to facilitate online discussions in developing content idea for ESL writing. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 33 pre-university students participating in online discussions on WhatsApp for five weeks to support face-to-face instructions. Pre-test, post-test, and five weekly writing tests were administered,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Discussion Groups
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Kasap, Süleyman – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
Anxiety related to foreign language has been widely held in recent years and associated studies have found a negative correlation between language anxiety and the academic performance of English-speaking students. Whenever foreign language learners express themselves in a second language, there is an anxiety about the image that is communicated…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries
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Zhang-Wu, Qianqian; Brisk, Maria Estela – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Although being able to meet the TOEFL requirement for college admission, Chinese international students often encounter linguistic challenges during their initial college experiences. Understanding such challenges set the foundation for implementing Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) in higher education. Although well studied in K-12…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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Murdoch, Yvette Denise; Lim, Hyejung; Cho, Jiyoung – SAGE Open, 2021
This study investigated the influence of acquired L1 writing skills on exophonic writings of students (N = 147) from diverse majors, who visited an English writing center for assistance. Affective differences revealed students with L1 writing tutelage (WL1) had lower avoidance behavior and higher extrinsic motivation and writing self-efficacy.…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Second Language Learning
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Zhou, Wangmei – CATESOL Journal, 2021
The effects of collaborative learning have been well studied in the context of students' developing reading proficiency. However, only a handful of scholars have examined the impact of collaborative learning on students' development of higher order thinking skills (Chapman, Ramondt, and Smiley, 2005; Lehtinen et al., 1999; Ma 2009). This article…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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
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