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Examining the Perspectives and Attitudes of ESL Students toward Idioms in Second Language Classrooms
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Download full textSakshi Garg – Journal of International Students, 2025
English is especially challenging for English second language (ESL) learners because of its significant cultural and societal implications. For example, idioms--multiworded expressions with multiple meanings--are problematic for ESL learners because of ambiguity in literal translation and reliance on the societal context. This quantitative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Language Patterns
Direct linkXinqing Wang; Frank Boers; Paul Warren – Language Awareness, 2024
Studies have shown that informing language learners about the literal underpinning of idioms can help them to remember these expressions. It has also been suggested that prompting learners to guess the meaning of lexical items may be beneficial because it can pique their curiosity and promote cognitive engagement. In the case of idioms, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Language Patterns
Igor Kotlyar; Noel J. Pearse; Joe Krasman – Discover Education, 2024
AI-based simulations for educational and assessment purposes are gaining global recognition. Informed by cultural comparison research, this study investigates cross-country variations in users' utilization and perceptions of a simulation-based assessment. Specifically, we conducted a comparative analysis between a sample of South African and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation
Qin Luo; Wulin Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
In order to facilitate the instruction and acquisition of EFL writing, this paper compares the uses of the light verb "get" in English writing by Chinese and L1 undergraduates by drawing on insights from the theory of norms and exploitations (TNE). Corpus pattern analysis (CPA) is conducted to analyze the data taken from two comparable…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
Haruka Sophia Iwao; Sally Andrews; Aaron Veldre – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Evidence of sensitivity to graphotactic and morphological patterns in English spelling has been extensively examined in monolinguals. Comparatively few studies have examined bilinguals' sensitivity to spelling regularities. The present study compared late Chinese-English bilinguals and English monolinguals on their sensitivity to systematic…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Eman S. Akeel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Corpus-based studies of lexical bundles have opened new avenues for language teaching research. The fact that naturally occurring language consists of patterns of lexical repetition and multi-word units has given rise to the question of chunkiness in learner language. This study was designed to examine lexical bundles and their functions in a…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
