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Teaching English as a Foreign Language via Four Language Skills
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Qamili, Shprese – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
English is a compulsory foreign language in all public and private primary and secondary schools and universities in the Republic of Kosovo. English language is a separate subject in the "Curricular Framework of Pre-University Education in the Republic of Kosovo", where it is ranked after the mother tongue. Thus, English occupies a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
The Effect of Colloquial Jordanian Arabic on Learning the English Definite Article and Negation
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Tawalbeh, Ibrahim Z. – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of Colloquial Jordanian Arabic upon the use of negation and the definite article in English. The sample of the study consisted of 100 male and 100 female Jordanian 10th graders in the academic year 2011-2012. The students were randomly selected from public schools in the region of Karak-Jordan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Proactive and Reactive Focus on Form and Gestures in EFL Classrooms in Japan
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Kamiya, Nobuhiro – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between proactive and reactive Focus on Form (FonF) and gestures. Two English classes in a public high school in Japan taught by a native speaker of English were observed and videotaped for 96 min and analyzed. Overall, 64 proactive FonF and 43 reactive FonF were provided. Among them,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Native Speakers
Examining the Writing of Adolescent African American English Speakers: Suggestions for Assessment and Intervention
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Horton-Ikard, RaMonda; Pittman, Ramona T. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This article describes the use of African American English (AAE) in the written and oral language of African American adolescents who struggle with writing. Written and oral language samples of 22 African American 10th-grade students were transcribed, analyzed, and coded for AAE, grammatical errors, spelling errors, and punctuation errors. Four…
Descriptors: Spelling, Black Dialects, Form Classes (Languages), Written Language
Modern Greek Language: Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax by Non-Native Speakers
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Andreou, Georgia; Karapetsas, Anargyros; Galantomos, Ioannis – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2008
This study investigated the performance of native and non native speakers of Modern Greek language on morphology and syntax tasks. Non-native speakers of Greek whose native language was English, which is a language with strict word order and simple morphology, made more errors and answered more slowly than native speakers on morphology but not…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Greek, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
English Articles and Modals in the Writing of Some Botswana Students
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Alimi, Modupe M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2007
What syntactic patterns emerge in students' use of articles and modals? What are the reasons for these patterns? What implications do the findings of the study have for English language instruction in Botswana? Exactly 1556 essays comprising class assignments, written seminar presentations, test papers and examination scripts from 514 randomly…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Writing (Composition), Assignments