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Wu, Shiyu; Liu, Dilin; Li, Zan – Second Language Research, 2023
This study tests the Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) that functional morphology presents the greatest difficulty in second language acquisition by examining Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' knowledge of both functional morphological properties and core syntactic properties across three language proficiency levels. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lorenzo García-Amaya – Second Language Research, 2024
orInverse relations, or "trade-off effects," are a common outcome of interlanguage development: a learner may increase performance in one linguistic domain while simultaneously decreasing performance in another. In this study, we investigate the relationships between one aspect of fluency (pause usage) and two aspects of syntactic…
Descriptors: Spanish, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Juffs, Alan; Fang, Shaohua – Language Learning, 2022
This article focuses on the role of crosslinguistic patterns with verbs in the mapping of noun phrases/semantic roles to positions in morphosyntax, with a particular focus on second language (L2) development of Spanish "se." The data set derives from high school learners of Spanish in the United States under broadly deductive and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Phuong, Do Thi Vu – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
This study investigated common written errors and the causes that language learners frequently commit. A descriptive qualitative approach was conducted with the participation of 57 eleventh-graders at a high school in Hung Yen province during the second term of the academic year 2021-2022. The respondents were requested to participate in five…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rastgou, Ali; Storch, Neomy; Knoch, Ute – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
Despite teachers' mainstream practices in L2 writing classrooms addressing different dimensions of writing over time, much of the research on feedback in recent years has been of relative short duration and has mainly focused on accuracy. The current longitudinal study investigated the influence of sustained teacher written feedback on accuracy,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Yang, Kyungmo; Bae, Jiyoung – English Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the continuity of reading passages of Korean high school English textbooks with the 2015 Revised National Curriculum using CohMetrix, a software that analyzes English texts in a range of linguistic features. Twentyone English textbooks were analyzed: 11 High School English, five High School English I,…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Huh, Myung-Hye; Lee, Jongbong – English Teaching, 2018
We explored whether task complexity, operationalized by the two types of writing prompts, affects EFL high school students' narrative writing in terms of syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, fluency, cohesion, and text quality. 32 intermediate EFL students who were randomly assigned to two prompt groups completed a written narrative task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Daghan-Aslan, Gülbin; Kiray, Gülay – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The present study aims to identify translanguaging strategies and question the effectiveness of these strategies in foreign language classrooms. To this aim, a 10th grade German class was observed during fall and spring semesters of 2017-2018 academic year, and interviews before, during and after observation process were conducted with the German…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kurniawati, Nia; Sugaryamah, Deuis; Hasanah, Aan – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
This study was intended to depict how Critical Literacy Pedagogy (CLP) principles were incorporated in EFL reading class in Indonesian secondary school and the students' Critical Thinking (CT) were fostered during learning process. This study was a classroom practice-based model of how the principles were transferred into the detailed teaching…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Learning Processes, Prior Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
Kim, Hyunwoo; Rah, Yangon; Hwang, Haerim – English Teaching, 2020
Usage-based approaches to language acquisition explain language development as a gradual process of generalizing constructions through language experience. This study investigated second language learners' development of constructional knowledge from the perspective of usage-based language development. A total of 169 Korean EFL students at five…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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)
Granados, Adrián; Lorenzo-Espejo, Antonio; Lorenzo, Francisco – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
However influential the interdependence hypothesis has become in bilingual research, it still lacks full empirical support. This longitudinal study explores the parallels in the biliteracy development (L1 Spanish and L2 English) of 20 students in a European immersion programme (i.e. CLIL) over a two-year period. A bilingual learner corpus of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Paragas, Jeger P.; Francisco, Christopher D. C. – Online Submission, 2020
The study identified the performance of Grade 7 students enrolled in Umingan Central National High School across their academic performance in English under creative writing skill. In gathering the profile of the students and their performance in identifying morphological and syntactical errors, descriptive and correlational research designs with…
Descriptors: Social Media, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, High School Students
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