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Hala Alsabatin; Waleed Nureldeen; Remon Eskander; Waleed Nasr – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Reading ability in English is decisive in determining the academic achievement of university students who study the English language, or any other subject in English. Extensive research has been conducted to explore whether ESL/EFL reading problems are language-specific or general reading problems. In this regard, previous research on the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Ability, Native Language
Raymond Yasuda – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study investigated the effect of consistent freewriting practice on written fluency development. Thirty-nine first-year university students completed 70 10-minute freewriting activities over the course of an academic semester. Written fluency, measured as words produced per minute (wpm), increased from a mean of 19.5 wpm to 30.1 wpm over a…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Essays, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Alrefaee, Sara; Mudkanna, Anita; Almansoob, Najeeb; Alrefaee, Yasser – Online Submission, 2019
This study attempts to investigate the relationship between students' weakness in listening skill and its effect on their performance in the TOEFL IBT integrated task of writing. It also investigates the balance among the students' four language skills. The participants of the study are senior students of Rada'a Education College of Albaydaa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Listening Skills
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
Alzamil, Abdulrahman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
English articles are thought to be complex, ambiguous and not salient in spoken language, which is why second language (L2) learners of English exhibit usage variability. Much of the L2 acquisition literature seems to agree that L2 learners are affected, one way or another, by their first language (L1). However, the debatable and controversial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Semitic Languages, Nouns, Phrase Structure
Alrefaee, Yasser; Al-Ghamdi, Naimah – Online Submission, 2019
This study examined the relationship between negative pragmatic transfer and language proficiency with reference to the refusal speech acts as realized by Yemeni learners of English as a Foreign Language (henceforth referred to as YLEs). Forty Yemeni learners of English (20 of low proficiency level and 20 of high proficiency level) and 2 baseline…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Correlation, Transfer of Training, Task Analysis
Chen, Lin; Perfetti, Charles A.; Fang, Xiaoping; Chang, Li-Yun – Second Language Research, 2021
When reading in a second language, a reader's first language may be involved. For word reading, the question is how and at what level: lexical, pre-lexical, or both. In three experiments, we employed an implicit reading task (color judgment) and an explicit reading task (word naming) to test whether a Chinese meaning equivalent character and its…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Reading Processes
Alshehri, Amira Abdullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study investigates two models of L2 vocabulary acquisition at an advanced L2 level: L1 lemma mediation and the revised hierarchical models. Proponents of the L1 lemma mediation model postulate that advanced L2 learners map L2 words to L1 meanings or concepts, whereas proponents of the revised hierarchical model argue that the increasing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Kim, Sung-Yeon; Kim, Kyung-Sook – TESL-EJ, 2022
Reading-integrated writing is known as an effective approach to teaching and learning vocabulary as it allows students to transfer vocabulary from a source text to writing. This study examines whether vocabulary transfer from an input text to writing varies according to the two types of tasks: essay writing and synchronous text chat. One hundred…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Word Lists, Transfer of Training
Chen, Che-Han – English Language Teaching, 2021
Although much research on English for specific purposes (ESP) has been conducted, little focus has been placed on investigating the mechanisms involved in ESP readers' comprehension process. This case study explored the reading process that characterizes a competent ESP reader's comprehension. A juris doctor student attending a major university in…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Case Studies, English for Special Purposes, Recall (Psychology)
Davis, Larry – Language Testing, 2016
Two factors were investigated that are thought to contribute to consistency in rater scoring judgments: rater training and experience in scoring. Also considered were the relative effects of scoring rubrics and exemplars on rater performance. Experienced teachers of English (N = 20) scored recorded responses from the TOEFL iBT speaking test prior…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Oral Language, Scores, Language Tests
Xi, Xiaoming; Mollaun, Pam – Language Learning, 2011
We investigated the scoring of the Speaking section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language[TM] Internet-based (TOEFL iBT[R]) test by speakers of English and one or more Indian languages. We explored the extent to which raters from India, after being trained and certified, were able to score the TOEFL examinees with mixed first languages…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Scoring, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Shahry, Mohammad Naseh Nasrollahy – TESL Canada Journal, 2011
Investigations into the role of context have often failed to find a positive role for this in vocabulary learning. This study, following a line of research concerned with the role of context, adds to the literature by examining the effect of three consecutive context sentences instead of one. Thirty-three Iranian EFL learners were asked to learn…
Descriptors: Sentences, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Tsai, Yea-Ru; Talley, Paul C. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
This paper reports on the effect of a Moodle-supported strategy instruction on both reading comprehension and strategy use among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students. Specific reading strategy training was first integrated into a Moodle system, which included reading exercises on problem identification, monitoring comprehension,…
Descriptors: Management Systems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Davis, Lawrence Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Speaking performance tests typically employ raters to produce scores; accordingly, variability in raters' scoring decisions has important consequences for test reliability and validity. One such source of variability is the rater's level of expertise in scoring. Therefore, it is important to understand how raters' performance is influenced by…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Expertise, Scores, Second Language Learning
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