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Leila Gholami – Language Teaching Research, 2024
An extensive number of corrective feedback (CF) studies have examined learners' errors with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms) and established an association between learners' uptake of CF and their second language development. However, learners' errors with formulaic sequences (FSs) comprising idioms,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Second Language Instruction
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Bianca Mister; Honglin Chen; Amanda Baker – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Developing L2 learners' productive mastery of vocabulary is a challenging task. Recent research has called for greater attention to understanding how receptive vocabulary may be transformed for productive use (Schmitt, 2019). Using a design-based research methodology, this study investigated adult ESL learners' productive oral vocabulary…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
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Vladimir Román Gutiérrez-Huancayo – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The present study aims to investigate how social media can influence the development of oral skills in 60 students from a higher education institution in Peru. In this regard, mixed-methods research was conducted, with pre and post-tests, to evaluate the before and after of implementing a program that involved uploading videos recorded by the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Oral Language, Psychological Patterns
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Chau, Tuc; Huensch, Amanda; Hoang, Yen K.; Chau, Hiep T. – TESL-EJ, 2022
This study investigated the effects of L2 pronunciation instruction on speech intelligibility and fluency, the relationship between intelligibility and fluency, and the extent to which utterance fluency can predict perceived fluency. Participants were 30 beginning adult EFL learners who received either segmental or suprasegmental instruction. Oral…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Pronunciation Instruction
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Sarath Withanarachchi Samaranayake – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This study aims to assess the impact of online tutoring on oral English fluency in Thai adult learners who have had only primary education in their native language but have no formal education in English. The research involved 34 adult learners participating in online hourly tutoring sessions over six months. Pre- and post-tests were used to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Tutors, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
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Katya Petrova; Kyle Jasmin; Kazuya Saito; Adam T. Tierney – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Languages differ in the importance of acoustic dimensions for speech categorization. This poses a potential challenge for second language (L2) learners, and the extent to which adult L2 learners can acquire new perceptual strategies for speech categorization remains unclear. This study investigated the effects of extensive English L2 immersion on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese
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Nur Ilianis Adnan; M. Arif Rahman Hakim; Anisha Sasidharan; Mohamad Jafre Zainol Abidin – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
English is widely used in the working environment globally. In Malaysia, many employers have English courses which relate to their job requirements. This is to help employees to become more competent, fluent, and confident in communicating in English while working. Besides academic qualifications, employers pay great attention to employees'…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Saunders, J'aimi Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The problem addressed through this study was that, in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, adult learners in an intensive English program often suffer from tiredness, mental overload, and not having enough time for learning, these are factors which negatively impact their ability to learn English successfully. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Notarianni Burk, Gabriella – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the extent to which lexical aspect and grounding influence the acquisition of tense and aspect by ninety-four instructed adult learners of Italian in two academic settings in North America. The semantic notions of tense and aspect have been extensively investigated in the domain of second language acquisition. After more…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
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Bril, Marco; Gerrits, Anouk; Visser, Merel – International Journal of Listening, 2022
Listening comprehension is a real-time process, yet very little is known about the variables affecting real-time second language (L2) listening. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of syntactic complexity and word frequency on L2 listening. Furthermore, the role of the listener's working memory capacity in listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Linguistic Input, Short Term Memory, Correlation
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Zhang, Haomin; Koda, Keiko – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study explored the role of early oral language in reading development among adult heritage language (HL) learners to provide insights into the possible developmental pattern of HL reading development. One hundred and ninety-five English-speaking Chinese HL (CHL) students participated in this study. They completed a language background survey…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Heritage Education, Morphology (Languages), Language Role
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Panahzadeh, Vahid; Asadi, Bita – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
The literature on task planning abounds with studies in laboratory or classroom contexts; however, the contribution of task planning to the testing context has remained a largely uncharted area of enquiry. The current study is primarily focused on exploring the impacts of pressured vs. unpressured on-line task planning conditions on EFL students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Task Analysis, Planning, Second Language Learning
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Gonzalves, Lisa – Language Awareness, 2021
Many U.S. adult schools currently aim to create academic and career pathways by implementing higher order thinking and metalinguistic application in their ESL curriculum. However, this 'ability to reflect on and manipulate the structural features of language' poses a significant hurdle to adult ESL learners newly learning to read and write, as…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Adult Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lascotte, Darren K.; Tarone, Elaine – Modern Language Journal, 2022
In commercial materials for the teaching of second language (L2) pronunciation, common bottom-up approaches segment phonology into a series of discrete and decontextualized linguistic components with rules that students are encouraged to internalize. Such approaches seem out of step with recent second language acquisition (SLA) theory and research…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Cochi, Carol – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2020
The number of non-academic adults who need English as a second language (ESL) classes is ever increasing, yet little is known about the instructional practices used to teach this population of learners. The focus of this article is to describe an exploratory single case study of the instructional practices used by teachers in a nonacademic adult…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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