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Li, Chili; Wang, Yuehua; Qian, Long; Shang, Zhenru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper reports on the results of a quantitative study that was aimed to measure the use of socio-cultural strategies in learning English writing among a group of 155 Chinese university English major students. This quantitative survey was informed by the socio-cultural theory that holds that L2 learning is a mediational process in which a…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alsaadi, Haya Mohammed Anazi – English Language Teaching, 2021
Language assessment is a vital part of the process of learning and teaching a foreign language. Language learners need to be provided with the best methods to measure how much they are acquiring the target language and to select the most authentic tasks of testing for them. As it has been recommended to use multiple assessment instead of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Chen, Jiliang; Li, Lanlan; Shen, Yalin; Li, Haoxia – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study is intended to explore the influence of partners' L2 proficiency on test-takers' performance and on their interaction patterns in paired oral assessment, and it tries to analyze the underlying causes on the basis of Vygotsky's theory of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and Storch's patterns of interaction. An experiment including…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language, Sociocultural Patterns
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Harutyunyan, Liliya; Poveda, María Fernanda – English Language Teaching, 2018
Even though there is plenty of published information about the advantages of peer review, little can be found on what the beneficiaries (i.e. the students) feel about this method and what they might expect from it. In this paper, we present an analysis of the perceptions of 44 students at one of the largest universities in Ecuador, who had just…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Asif, Fariha – English Language Teaching, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that trigger language anxiety among Saudi learners in English as Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. The factor of anxiety is especially found among learners while developing proficiency in over all communication and speaking skills as felt by the EFL teachers. The study also seeks to answer…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Aguirre-Garzón, Edgar Augusto; Castañeda-Peña, Harold Andrés – English Language Teaching, 2017
Research has accumulated important knowledge over recent decades on how licensed language teachers develop and learn from cognitive and socio-cultural stances. Yet, relatively little evidence exists on how non-licensed-in-English language teachers (NLELTs) grow professionally in their communities. Similarly, few studies have yet investigated the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers