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Fattahi, Nazila; Nushi, Musa – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021
The ubiquitous nature of metaphor in everyday life and its significance in second language learning has triggered plethoric research on the relationship between metaphor and language learning. To contribute to the still growing literature, the current study explore the effect of learner variables, namely gender and proficiency, on metaphor use in…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Language Usage, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning
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Shin’ichiro Ishikawa – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
A writer's L1 is generally believed to influence their L2 English writing significantly. However, the extent to which L1 backgrounds influence Asian learners' L2 English writing has not been wholly elucidated due to the lack of data covering various learners in Asia. Therefore, this study analysed more than one-million-word essays written by 2,318…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Qureshi, Muhammad Asif; Aljanadbah, Ahmad – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
The current study examined the impact of translanguaging on second language reading comprehension. The study involved an experimental and a control group. The participants in the experimental group (n = 38) were offered four opportunities to engage Arabic -- their first language -- in comprehending a text in English. These occasions for…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Rahimi, Muhammad – Language Teaching Research, 2019
The impacts of task characteristics on second language (L2) writing require further exploration. This study examined the effects of increasing task complexity on L2 argumentative writing. Upper-intermediate L2 learners performed two writing tasks with varying degrees of complexity in relation to the number of elements and the degree of reasoning.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
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Palfreyman, David M.; Karaki, Suha – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Recent multilingual perspectives view second language writing as part of a language user's dynamic multilingual repertoire, always occurring in the (cognitive and social) context of some first language(s), and often of first language literacy and/or use of other languages. This paper focuses on one element of written language (lexical…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning