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Wang, Jie; Singhapreecha, Pornsiri – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Resolution to ambiguity imposed by English relative clauses (RC) was examined with Thai EFL students in this study. Offline experimental items included two-site context NPs, i.e., NP1 "of" NP2 (Complex NP of) and NP1 "with" NP2 (Complex NP "with") modified by RCs. As NP1 and NP2 occupy higher and lower positions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Yifei Gong; Klavs Hansen; Jianlin Chen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Despite the worldwide prevalence of multilingualism, the knowledge of the relationship between domain-general cognitive control and multilingual language control remains scant. Here we provide new insights into this issue by examining systematically how different components of inhibitory control (i.e., response inhibition and interference…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Language Processing, Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics
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Köksal, Onur – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The purpose of the present research is investigating cultural competence development processes of students studying at Selcuk University Department of English Translation and Interpretation. Data of the research were collected with English Translation and Interpretation Students' Cultural Competence Development Processes Survey, developed by the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Translation, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Çetinavci, Ugur Recep; Öztürk, Ismet – Online Submission, 2017
Pragmatic competence is among the explicitly acknowledged sub-competences that make the communicative competence in any language (Bachman & Palmer, 1996; Council of Europe, 2001). Within the notion of pragmatic competence itself, "implicature (implied meanings)" comes to the fore as one of the five main areas there (Levinson, 1983).…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Instruction
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Khansir, Ali Akbar; Dashti, Jamshid Gholami – English Language Teaching, 2014
The main aim of the study was to investigate the effect of question-generation strategy on Iranian EFL third grade high school students' ability in reading comprehension passages via multiple-choice question .In this research, the total number of one hundred and twenty male and female students participated. For homogeneity of the students, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
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Gunnarsson, Cecilia – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
The present longitudinal case study investigated the development of fluency, complexity and accuracy--and the possible relationships between them--in the written production of L2 French. We assessed fluency and complexity in five intermediate learners by means of conventional indicators for written L2 (cf. Wolfe-Quintero et al. 1998), while…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, French, Language Fluency
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Fifty-four students were followed over 10 years beginning in first grade to determine best predictors of oral and written second language (L2) proficiency. Predictor variables included measures of first language (L1) skill administered in first through fifth grades, L1 academic aptitude, L2 aptitude (Modern Language Aptitude Test), and L2 affect…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Predictor Variables, Aptitude Tests, Decoding (Reading)
Webbert, Victoria Vazquez – Online Submission, 2007
In this theoretical dissertation my aim is to research the academic literature in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), compare it to the life experiences of past and/or present students, colleagues, children and myself to reflect and summarize my learning in the form of a conceptual framework that I have named, "Framework for…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Critical Theory, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning