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Judith Borràs; Àngels Llanes – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Performing a stay in a country where the L2 is the official language can provide the perfect immersion for L2 development (traditional study abroad). In the case of English learners, internationalization and the role of English as a lingua franca make it unnecessary to perform the stay in an English-speaking country. Hence, an increasing number of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Undergraduate Students
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Issa, Bernard Ibrahim; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy; Bowden, Harriet Wood – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study examined linguistic development among both intermediate and advanced college-level second language (L2) learners during short-term study abroad summer programs in Spain. Participants completed a measure of overall proficiency, as well as assessments of receptive grammatical (morphosyntactic) and lexical (semantic) abilities at the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency
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Struck, Jason; Jiang, Nan – Second Language Research, 2022
Language switch costs have been explored less in receptive tasks than in productive tasks, and previous studies have produced mixed findings with regard to switch cost symmetry and the relationship of switch costs to executive function. To address these unresolved gaps, one hundred Chinese-English bilingual adults completed a bilingual lexical…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Task Analysis, Receptive Language, Executive Function
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Ureel, Jim J. J.; Diels, Ella; Robert, Isabelle S.; Schrijver, Iris – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
As expert intercultural communicators, translators constantly face the challenges of comprehending and producing language that is stylistically appropriate in various communicative contexts. To scale these challenges, they must acquire advanced levels of sociolinguistic competence. Although sociolinguistic competence is considered an essential…
Descriptors: Translation, Sociolinguistics, Undergraduate Students, Indo European Languages
Edelman, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study was an investigation into the aural and written receptive knowledge of the English semantics of English lexis that is loanwords in the Japanese language and the predictive strength of the variables of semantic distance, concreteness/abstractness, polysemy, phonological distance, number of syllables, number of phonemes, number of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Japanese, Semantics, English (Second Language)
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Qadi, Ahmad – English Language Teaching, 2021
Observing receptive skills development in Saudi Arabia's undergraduates at Summer University (pseudonym), this paper immaculately investigates students' perceptions regarding the uses of Facebook as a well-liked forum of social media pertinent to enhancement of Receptive Skill of English, as a foreign language. At greater extent, their approaches…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Uchihara, Takumi; Harada, Tetsuo – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study investigated the relationship between vocabulary knowledge (written and aural receptive vocabulary size and self-rating of vocabulary knowledge) and self-perceptions of four language skills (reading, listening, writing, speaking) targeting undergraduate students in English-medium instruction (EMI) courses in Japan. The students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Receptive Language
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Hajiyeva, Konul – English Language Teaching, 2015
This article reports on the results of two studies on receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge of first-year English majors in an English-medium degree programme. The aim of the study is to answer these research questions: (1) to what extent do the receptive and productive vocabulary sizes of English majors increase after a year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Vocabulary
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Young-Davy, Belinda – ORTESOL Journal, 2014
One of the questions facing language instructors is how direct vocabulary instruction should be. Much recent research into vocabulary acquisition and studies of learning strategies strongly indicates that the explicit vocabulary learning vs. implicit vocabulary learning issue is not a dichotomy, but rather a continuum (Hunt and Belgar, 2005; Lee…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
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Bolton, Kingsley; Kuteeva, Maria – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
In recent years, universities across Europe have increasingly adopted the use of English as an academic lingua franca. Our article discusses current trends in Swedish higher education by presenting the results of a large-scale survey on the use of English conducted at Stockholm University. The survey involved 668 staff and 4524 students and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English for Academic Purposes, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries