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Errapel Mejías-Bikandi – Hispania, 2025
The paper discusses the interpretation of adversative clauses introduced by "pero" and concessive clauses introduced by "aunque" in Spanish. Specifically, the discussion centers around structures that exhibit the forms: (i) "A, pero B," (ii) "A, aunque B-INDICATIVE," and (iii) "A, aunque…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Daniel Sbastian; Gloria Putri Waang – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
Technological advances have made the ability to translate no longer exclusively belong to humans. Today, machine translation has turned into a tool with superior performance to convert text between languages without the need for human intervention. One of the translation research foci is the studies of causative translation, especially from…
Descriptors: Novels, Translation, Indonesian, English (Second Language)
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Wei Yi; Yanlu Zhong – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This meta-analysis synthesized 35 English studies (130 effect sizes, N = 1,981) that employed online tasks to investigate the processing of multiword sequences (MWSs). We examined (a) to what extent MWSs enjoy a processing advantage over novel word combinations; (b) how such a processing advantage is moderated by statistical regularities (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2024
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2024) upgrades ED628218 (ERIC) with labels and analysis and brings the work up to date to reflect language change at the speed of the internet, ChatGPT, social discord, and bloody wars. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
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Arailym Sarbalina; Zharkynbike Suleimenova; Kunipa Ashinova; Zhaidarkul Belassarova; Balkiya Kassym; Aiman Koblanova – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study aims to analyze the factors influencing the typology of Turkic words to examine the specifics of the way students learn Turkic languages in higher education institutions. A hypotheticdeductive, survey, and comparative method was used for the study. Results showed that the learners have trouble constructing oral discourse and do not…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Turkic Languages
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Despina Papadopoulou; Nikolaos Amvrazis; Gerakini Douka; Alexandros Tantos – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The article introduces triangulation to converge evidence from corpus and experimental data, by means of two case studies in second language (L2) learners of Greek. The first case study investigates the acquisition of gender agreement, while the second probes the development of relative clauses. In both studies, findings from the corpus are tested…
Descriptors: Greek, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jiuliang Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To avoid plagiarism, students have to learn the appropriate and effective ways of source text use, such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and citation. However, few studies have investigated how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) employ copy and paraphrase as source text use strategies in completing writing tasks involving reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Lingling Li; Hai Xu; Xian Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Despite the widely used word lists in English as a second or foreign language learning, few attempts have been made to create an academic spoken collocation list, which holds significant potential for enhancing learners' aural and oral abilities in academic communication. This study created a list of the most frequently used and pedagogically…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
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Adler Yang Zhou – Language Teaching Research, 2025
When teaching Mandarin Chinese classifiers, teachers usually ask students to memorize 'classifier + noun', phrases as collocations. Given that Mandarin Chinese has a vast and complicated system of classifiers, the rote memorization of 'classifier + noun' collocations is challenging and monotonous. Therefore, the present study aims to improve that…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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John Read; Thi Ngoc Yen Dang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In second language (L2) vocabulary studies there is continuing interest in tests of depth of vocabulary knowledge, measuring various aspects of word knowledge other than just the form--meaning link that is the focus of breadth (or size) tests. This study aimed to explore new formats that could be used as diagnostic tools for assessing depth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Jifeng Wu; Xiaofei Lu; Renfen Hu; Yun Lin; Fengkai Liu – Modern Language Journal, 2025
The adjustment of syntactic and phraseological complexity is a key consideration in text adaptation. However, research on this topic in the context of Chinese as a second language (CSL) remains limited. Using 700 CSL reading texts graded following the newly issued Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phrase Structure, Grading, Standards
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Zhiliang Yue; Sugunya Ruangjaroon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to provide a comprehensive profile of collocational competence, a key component of one's overall linguistic competence. For the maximum of ecological validity, we elicited naturalistic oral/written production data from 84 Chinese intermediate EFL learners and performed a 2×2 fashion of analysis on their performance in each of the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2025
"A Dictionary of Contemporary Figurative Language" is meant to be an appendix to an earlier, more comprehensive work: ED648945, "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor 2024." This appendix simply updates the dictionary of that previous work to better reflect the language used during the 2024…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Dictionaries, Phrase Structure
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Fariba Foroutan Far; Mahboubeh Taghizadeh – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated the effects of digital and non-digital gamification on EFL learners' learning collocations, satisfaction, perceptions, and sense of flow. The participants divided into three groups of digitally gamified, non-digitally gamified, and non-gamified classes were 75 Iranian EFL students at B1 level. In each class, students were…
Descriptors: Gamification, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Minjin Kim; Xiaofei Lu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The effects of learner- and task-related variables on second language (L2) writing syntactic complexity (SC) have been extensively investigated. However, previous research has rarely assessed the reliability of computational tools for analyzing the SC of L2 spoken production, and we know less about the effects of such variables on L2 speaking SC.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Syntax, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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