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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
Ebadi, Saman; Ebadijalal, Marjan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study reports the results of a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of a virtual reality (VR) tool on Iranian EFL learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) and oral proficiency. Twenty upper-intermediate EFL learners were divided into experimental and control groups role-playing as museum guides with and without Google Expeditions VR…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Burton, John Dylan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
An assumption underlying speaking tests is that scores reflect the ability to produce online, non-rehearsed speech. Speech produced in testing situations may, however, be less spontaneous if extensive test preparation takes place, resulting in memorized or rehearsed responses. If raters detect these patterns, they may conceptualize speech as…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Oral Language, Scores, Speech Communication
Mendoza, Anna – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
The author examines discourses of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and World Englishes (WEs) in the commercials for 2 standardized English tests: the International English Language Testing System for study abroad in English-dominant countries and the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program for Canadian permanent residency and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Hamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
Globalized English proficiency tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are increasingly playing the role of gatekeepers in a globalizing world. Although the use of the IELTS as a "policy tool" for making decisions in the areas of study, work and migration impacts on test-takers' lives and life chances, not…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Murray, Neil; Muller, Amanda – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
Students entering English-medium universities frequently struggle to cope with the language demands of their degree programmes, despite having met the English language entry conditions stipulated by their receiving institutions. This can have significant repercussions for the teaching-learning process, for the student experience and for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, College Students
Afraz, Shahram; Taghizade, Leila; Taghinezhad, Ali – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2018
Speaking is a crucial form of communication in language learning settings. Through speaking skill, ESL/EFL language learners can communicate and convey information. Pictorial aids have been deployed as efficacious mediatory tools in teaching various disciplines such as language teaching. Still, to the best of the researchers' knowledge, a direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Izadi, Mehri; Nowrouzi, Hossein – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
The present study aimed at exploring the effect of reciprocal reading strategies instruction on reading comprehension of EFL learners. Emotional intelligence, another variable of interest, was assessed to indicate whether it plays a role in learners' comprehension. In a pre- and post-test study, forty-two learners went through a reciprocal reading…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Emotional Intelligence, Reciprocal Teaching, English (Second Language)
Ansarian, Loghman; Adlipour, Ali Akbar; Saber, Mehrnoush Akhavan; Shafiei, Elmira – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study investigated the effect of problem-based learning through cognition-based tasks on speaking proficiency of Iranian intermediate EFL learners in comparison to the effect of objective-based tasks. To this end, a true experimental research design was employed. Ninety five (N = 95) language learners studying at a language institute in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Rahimi, Muhammad; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Language Learning Journal, 2016
This study was designed to investigate the effects of incidental unfocused prompts and recasts on improving English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammatical accuracy as measured in students' oral interviews and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) grammar test. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with pre-tests,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis, Advanced Students
Cullinan, Mary – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2016
This paper is a critical analysis of curriculum with a discussion of its main tenets and exploration of issues within the literature. The focus is on curriculum in English as a Second Language (ESL) using critical applied linguistics as a framework. The ideas explored in the paper are synthesized and applied to ESL curriculum in the United Arab…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Crowther, Dustin; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia; Saito, Kazuya – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The current study investigated task effects on listener perception of second language (L2) comprehensibility (ease of understanding). Sixty university-level adult speakers of English from 4 first language (L1) backgrounds (Chinese, Romance, Hindi, Farsi), with 15 speakers per group, were recorded performing 2 tasks (IELTS long-turn speaking task…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Pronunciation, Language Rhythm
Bozorgian, Hossein – International Journal of Listening, 2014
This study investigated the impact of metacognitive instruction on the listening skill, and metacognitive knowledge of a group of male students (N = 30) who were learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Iran. The study participants spoke Persian as a first language and were high-intermediate EFL learners. The participants received a guided…
Descriptors: Role, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Piller, Ingrid; Lising, Loy – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
Australia is one of the world's largest beef exporters. However, meat processing jobs are widely considered undesirable and are increasingly filled with employer-sponsored migrant workers on temporary long-stay visas. Against this background, our paper explores the role of language in the employment and migration trajectories of a group of meat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Temporary Employment, Food Processing Occupations
Nguyen, Thi Thuy Minh – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This study explores how a group of learners of English as a second language (ESL) criticize in everyday situations compared to the native speaker (NS) with a view to expanding the range of speech acts under inquiry in the interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) literature. Data were collected from five NSs of New Zealand English and five intermediate…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Criticism, English (Second Language)
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