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Ayelet Sasson; Rachel Schiff; Barak Zluf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners. We also examined the correlation between L2 noun phrase comprehension and L2 reading comprehension, as well as the contribution of L2 noun phrase comprehension to L2 reading comprehension. One hundred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 11
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Tang, Mengmeng – Cogent Education, 2020
English and Chinese have typological differences in finiteness. English has morphological finite and nonfinite distinction, whereas Chinese has no morphological finiteness, and multiple verbs in a clause appear in the form of bare verbs with optional aspectual morphemes, such as the perfective morpheme "le". The current study explores…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Classification
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Shi, Bibing; Huang, Liyan; Lu, Xiaofei – Language Testing, 2020
The continuation task, a new form of reading-writing integrated task in which test-takers read an incomplete story and then write the continuation and ending of the story, has been increasingly used in writing assessment, especially in China. However, language-test developers' understanding of the effects of important task-related factors on…
Descriptors: Cues, Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language)
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Chumbay, Julio; Ochoa, Janina Felisha Quito – English Language Teaching, 2020
This research study analyzes the effect the implementation of language-driven CLIL has on senior learners from Manuel J. Calle High School in Cuenca, Ecuador in relation to the development of written production in terms of Syntax, Content, Communicative Achievement, Organization, and Language compared to a non-language-driven CLIL classroom. There…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
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Sungsoo Kim; Jungok Bae – English Teaching, 2017
Because English grammar consists of a long list of features, it is impractical to include all of them in a single grammar test. It would be useful to identify among all those features the best indicators of students' grammatical knowledge and ability so that we could focus on what were the most representative knowledge and skills and simplify…
Descriptors: Grammar, High School Teachers, Grade 12, High School Students
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Keh, Melissa Latham – CATESOL Journal, 2019
Assessing English learners (ELs) in US schools is challenging because many widely used assessments have not been designed with ELs in mind. Yet if teachers are sensitive to how ELs may perform differently from native speakers on such assessments, these assessments reveal useful information about ELs' language and literacy skills. This mixed-method…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Testing
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Kaplan, Dafna; Berman, Ruth – First Language, 2015
The study examined linguistic flexibility of Hebrew-speaking students from middle childhood to adolescence compared with adults on tasks requiring them to alternate between different versions of varied linguistic stimuli. Lexical flexibility was tested by constructing different words with a shared root and a shared prosodic template;…
Descriptors: Intonation, Syntax, Suprasegmentals, Sentence Structure
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Berninger, Virginia; Abbott, Robert; Cook, Clayton R.; Nagy, William – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Relationships between attention/executive functions and language learning were investigated in students in Grades 4 to 9 (N = 88) with and without specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in multiword syntax in oral and written language (OWL LD), word reading and spelling (dyslexia), and subword letter writing (dysgraphia). Prior…
Descriptors: Correlation, Attention Control, Executive Function, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Heilmann, John; Malone, Thomas O. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The authors created a database of expository oral language samples with the aims of describing the nature of students' expository discourse and providing benchmark data for typically developing preteen and teenage students. Method: Using a favorite game or sport protocol, language samples were collected from 235 typically developing…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Skills, Databases
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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
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Morvay, Gabriella – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
Via a variety of measurements, 64 Hungarian native speakers in the 12th grade learning English as a foreign language in Slovakia were tested in a cross-sectional correlational study in order to determine the relationship between the ability to process complex syntax and foreign language reading comprehension. The test instruments involved a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Hungarian
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Chishiba, G. M.; Mukuka, J. – African Higher Education Review, 2012
Language interference is one of the factors that affect language learning by many learners of second and third languages. In Zambia, the impact of language interference on the learners of French requires closer attention. Our literature review shows that few studies have looked at the impact of interference from Zambian languages on the learners…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Interference (Language), Foreign Countries
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Jafary, Mohamad Reza; Nordin, Noreen; Mohajeri, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated the effect of dynamic assessment on learners' syntactic knowledge. The main concern of this study was significant difference between dynamic and static assessment and the possible role of these two forms of assessment on the syntactic development of Iranian EFL college preparatory learners. To fulfill the purpose of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khodadady, Ebrahim; Pishghadam, Reza; Alaee, Farnaz Farokh – English Language Teaching, 2012
An achievement test based on schema theory (S-Test) was developed on the passages comprising the English textbook taught at grade three in state high schools in Iran and administered concurrently with a validated and reliable Social Capital Scale (SCS) to four hundred seventy seven male and female participants. The Z-scores obtained on the S-Test…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Capital, Parenting Styles, Semantics