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Bartolome Jose Bazan Rios – ProQuest LLC, 2024
According to cognitive psychologists, consistent practice (i.e., tasks with a high degree of similarity) of a skill leads to the development of automaticity, with the degree of automatization being increased if the practice also involves exact repetition. Practice is skill specific, meaning that practicing one skill does not automatize related…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Executive Function, Listening Skills, Second Language Learning
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Michael Sadeghi; Mostafa Pourhaji – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Sariçoban, Arif; Karadayioglu, Aybüke – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the levels of language learning strategies employed by A1-A2 level high school students while learning English as a foreign language. In the Turkish formal education system, English is a compulsory subject in all public and private schools, and students start to learn English from 2nd grade at the elementary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Kim, Minkyung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Adopting a cognitive perspective, this study examined roles of working memory capacity (WMC), first language (L1) syllogistic inferencing, and second language (L2) linguistic knowledge on literal and inferential understanding of L2 reading comprehension in adolescent L2 learners. Participants were 193 Korean ninth-grade learners of English. The…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yen-Liang Lin – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which different pedagogical gestures contribute to learners' foreign or second language (L2) narrative recall, and further discussed how task complexity and task difficulty (i.e. working memory capacity or WMC) influence recall performance. Sixty-four adolescent learners, assigned to four different gesture…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Learning, Recall (Psychology)
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Migyeong Jang; YiBoon Chang – English Teaching, 2023
This study investigated the effects of multisensory memory strategies of pairing visual and aural learning strategies of aural lexical advance organizers (LAO) and read-alouds on 146 Korean high school students learning the meaning and pronunciation of 18 unfamiliar English words. In this quasi-experimental design, the control group learned the…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Memory, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Duong, Tham My; Nguyen, Hang Thi Thu – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
It is widely acknowledged that language learning strategies (LLSs) are beneficial to learners' academic achievements, learner autonomy, and motivation; however, it is indicated that Vietnamese students, particularly high school students, have found it hard to employ LLSs. This paper aims at exploring language learning strategies used by high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Zia Tajeddin; Ali Malmir – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Learners' acquisition of pragmatic competence in additional languages has received mounting attention since the 1990s. However, although studies on general learning strategies have proliferated since Oxford's (1990) influential inventory was published, studies on pragmatic-specific learning strategies contributing to the acquisition of this…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Zhou, Hong; Feng, Yufang – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
This study explores the status quo of speaking strategies used by Chinese High School Students of International Department by using both questionnaire and interview. The participants were 90 second-year Chinese High School Students of International Department, and then the data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0. The study yields certain results. First,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jester, Kathleen A. M.; Giles, Rebecca M.; Ferguson, Susan N. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2019
Three vocabulary learning approaches -- rote memorization; Cover, Copy, Compare (CCC); and Cover, Copy, Compare Adapted with picture (CCCA) -- were examined for effectiveness in promoting long-term memory retention for productive vocabulary in foreign language learning. Pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest data were collected using Conjuguemos,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary, High School Students
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Logojan, Anamaria Aurelia – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
This article presents the results of a research project carried out in 2017 at the Agricultural High School of Universidad Autónoma Chapingo in Texcoco, Mexico, with the aim of determining which vocabulary strategies students used, as well as the frequency of their use. A Likert-scale questionnaire with 5 points, adapted from Easterbrook (2013),…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kim, Minkyung; Nam, Yunjung; Crossley, Scott A. – Language Testing, 2022
This study investigated the effects of working memory capacity (WMC), first language (L1) syllogistic inferencing ability, and second-language (L2) linguistic knowledge on L2 listening comprehension for passages of different lengths. Participants were 193 Korean ninth-grade learners of English. A path analysis was used to examine multivariate…
Descriptors: Native Language, Short Term Memory, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning
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Supakorn, Patnarin; Feng, Min; Limmun, Wanida – English Language Teaching, 2018
The success of language learning significantly depends on multiple sets of complex factors; among these are language-learning strategies of which learners in different countries may show different preferences. Needed areas of language learning strategy research include, among others, the strategy of grammar learning and the context-based approach…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Learning Strategies
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Lockiewicz, Marta; Jaskulska, Martyna – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
The aim of our study was to examine the relationship between NL (Native Language: Polish) phonological processing skills (verbal and phonological short-term memory, phoneme segmentation and blending, rapid automatised naming (RAN)) and the accuracy and fluency of NL and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) word and nonword decoding and word…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Correlation, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Luebbers, Julie – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Second language (L2) educators have proposed a unique anxiety for general L2 learning and an anxiety specific to L2 reading. Since the early 1990s, the L2 anxiety concept has been challenged on theoretical and empirical grounds. In this investigation, U.S. high school L2 learners were administered the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS)…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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