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Horton, Nicholas J.; Chao, Jie; Palmer, Phebe; Finzer, William – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2023
Text provides a compelling example of unstructured data that can be used to motivate and explore classification problems. Challenges arise regarding the representation of features of text and student linkage between text representations as character strings and identification of features that embed connections with underlying phenomena. In order…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Data Analysis, Learning Processes, Written Language
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2023
Time metaphorical expressions are common in all languages and in general as well as specialized contexts. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic time metaphorical expressions containing , and the difficulties that student-translators have in translating them; the translation strategies they use and the…
Descriptors: Time, Figurative Language, Arabic, English (Second Language)
Tasker, David Gasbarro – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Written language occupies a uniquely important space in the university. The present investigation concentrates upon variation in the situations and language that characterize the different varieties of writing produced at the undergraduate level in the English department. The aim of such an investigation is to identify and characterize the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Written Language, English Instruction
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Makowski, Martha B. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
Teaching meaningful and productive mathematical argument in school requires teachers who are comfortable with diverse forms of mathematical justification. This study examines the written and oral justifications of pre-service middle school teachers (PSTs) in a single classroom, focusing on the types of justifications they use during the patterns…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Ibrahim, Mohammed Ali Elsiddig – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This research aims to address the syntactic problems that Saudi students confront when translating. The significance of the study is to detect syntactic issues among Saudi Arabian undergraduate students. The question is addressed in the study: what are the syntactic problems that Saudi students confront when translating? The researcher used a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Translation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Gesuato, Sara – TESL-EJ, 2021
This paper addressed the under-investigated question whether speech act moves can be identified and classified in conversation by examining the content, positioning, and strategic role of utterances in turns and turn sequences. To this end, offering exchanges were analysed in the transcripts of 31 open role-plays. These were elicited from American…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Native Speakers
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Wattananukij, Wattana; Pongpairoj, Nattama – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigated pragmatic transfer in responses to English tag questions by L1 Thai learners based on Interlanguage Pragmatics, specifically pragmatic transfer (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, 1993). The L1 Thai learners were categorized into two groups according to their English proficiency levels: advanced and intermediate. Oral and written…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Perez-Gomez, Francisco; Cortes Coss, Dina Elizabeth – English Language Teaching, 2021
In student-teachers' education, it is fundamental to foster the intercultural communicative competence for them to express their views on cultural concepts and phenomena in written and orally, with native and non-native speakers of a foreign language. In the same vein, future foreign language teachers, particularly at an early stage of their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Learning Processes, Self Concept
Delute, Regina Chriscel S. – Online Submission, 2019
The study analyzed the directives in the English major examinations collated from Batangas State University. It covered the instructors extent of use of examination types. At the end of the study, a set of guidelines in the construction of directions was proposed. The descriptive method of research was utilized with the questionnaire as the main…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Ananda, Lalith – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
In the past three decades or so, the conceptual rigor of intertextuality has exercised enormous influence on pedagogical practices. In this context, intertextuality can also be used as a means of harnessing students' critical stances that are crucial for teaching language skills. Based on eight qualitative student interviews at a university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Qualitative Research
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Arts, Jorik Gerardus; Jaspers, Mieke; Joosten-ten Brinke, Desiree – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In Higher Education, much of a lecturer's time is spent on supplying students with written comments as a form of feedback on assignments. Although it is clear that students use these comments to make adjustments to their assignments, it is doubtful that these comments create a learning effect. This may indicate that the way feedback is supplied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Written Language, Feedback (Response)
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Dmitrievykh, Irina L.; Kuklina, Svetlana S.; Cheremisinova, Rimma A.; Ogorodnikova, Natalia V. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
Contemporary foreign-language education focuses on the development of multicultural language personality of the university graduate, who has necessary competencies to implement in professional activities. One of such competences is professionally-oriented foreign language communicative competence that is responsible for the capability of a future…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods
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Walker, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Lexical sound symbolism in language appears to exploit the feature associations embedded in cross-sensory correspondences. For example, words incorporating relatively high acoustic frequencies (i.e., front/close rather than back/open vowels) are deemed more appropriate as names for concepts associated with brightness, lightness in weight,…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phonology
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Li, Degao; Gao, Kejuan; Wu, Xueyun; Xong, Ying; Chen, Xiaojun; He, Weiwei; Li, Ling; Huang, Jingjia – American Annals of the Deaf, 2015
Two experiments investigated Chinese deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) adolescents' recognition of category names in an innovative task of semantic categorization. In each trial, the category-name target appeared briefly at the screen center followed by two words or two pictures for two basic-level exemplars of high or middle typicality, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Adolescents
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Geng, Jingyi; Schnur, Tatiana T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
In 4 word-translation experiments, we examined the different representational frameworks theory (Crutch & Warrington, 2005; 2010) that concrete words are represented primarily by category, whereas abstract words are represented by association. In our experiments, Chinese-English bilingual speakers were presented with an auditory Chinese word…
Descriptors: Translation, Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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