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Nancy Gagné; Leif M. French; Kirsten M. Hummel – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Within the same learning context, learners' outcomes in terms of oral fluency vary greatly. This study tracked the relative contributions that first language (L1) and initial second language (L2) fluency skill and working memory (WM) made to L2 fluency development. We assessed the performance of French-speaking Grade 6 learners' (n = 47, mean age:…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Short Term Memory, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Jianlin Chen; Yu Liu; Yanyan Xiong; Min He – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present study tested whether the switch costs of production-based language switching tasks by trilinguals are due to competition from outside language schemas or from within language systems. We recruited 90 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals in 10th grade in a Tibetan middle school in China to name digits and number words using different…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language)
Dan Zhang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2025
This study explores the application of the task-based teaching method in English education, particularly from the perspective of big data. Traditional English teaching models often fail to meet the diverse needs of students, with the task-based approach, despite being student-centered, encountering challenges such as task difficulty control and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Learning Analytics, Learner Engagement
Ding, Wenjun; Yu, Guoxing – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
This paper examined to what extent causal explanation speaking tasks (CESTs) are cognitively appropriate for assessing young language learners' (YLLs) L2 speaking. Ninety-six YLLs (48 from Grade 4 and 6 each) in China performed two CESTs in both L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English). They also completed receptive and productive L2 vocabulary size tests.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Native Language
Robin Couture-Matte – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
The present investigation aimed to assess the use of scaffolding strategies by young English as a second language learners who carried out communicative tasks in the context of high-immersive virtual reality (HVR) (Kaplan-Rakowski & Gruber, 2019). More specifically, 24 students enrolled in an intensive program in the province of Quebec,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Marium Abugasea Heidt – NECTFL Review, 2025
As language programs are endangered in K-16 contexts due to low enrollments, and for budgetary reasons, it is more important than ever to find enduring ways to help promote the study of languages and to make studying languages enjoyable for everyone. For sustainable language education, we need to focus on and promote the true purpose of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, Declining Enrollment
Xueping Li; Yiru Wang – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study examines how the genre of input text influences Chinese young EFL learners' performance on continuation tasks. Participants were 30 students in Grade 9 and repeated-measures design was adopted to compare their performance on narrative and argumentative continuation tasks, in terms of writing quality, CAF indicators as well as alignment.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Christopher Rendes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Learning a second language is a complex task. Adopting the innovative use of a multimodal literacies approach provides young second language (L2) learners with expanded opportunities to immerse themselves in the target language. This study explored how participants utilized their multimodal literacies along with the level of investment…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
Park, Yujong – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study assesses a range of task-based interaction (i.e. structured vs. unstructured tasks) between lower-English-proficiency middle school English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in a task-based learning (TBL) class employing conversation analytic methodology. From the video data, which allowed for an emic analysis of the students' vocal…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shang Jiang; Anna Siyanova-Chanturia – First Language, 2024
Recent studies have accumulated to suggest that children, akin to adults, exhibit a processing advantage for formulaic language (e.g. "save energy") over novel language (e.g. "sell energy"), as well as sensitivity to phrase frequencies. The majority of these studies are based on formulaic sequences in their canonical form. In…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Suh Keong Kwon – English Teaching, 2024
This paper investigates the cognitive processes involved in English word recognition among young EFL learners using eye-tracking methodology. A quasi-experimental mixed method design was used to investigate how young L2 learners engage with basic words, with or without pictorial cues. A total of seventeen 6th-grade pupils from two schools…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
A. Lopez, Alexis – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
In this study, I examined how 34 Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) used their linguistic resources (English and Spanish) and language modes (oral and written language) to demonstrate their knowledge of proportional reasoning in a dual language mathematics assessment task. The assessment allows students to see the item in both…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Language Usage, Mathematics Instruction
Govindarajoo, Mallika Vasugi; Chin Hui, Chow; A Aziz, Siti Farhah – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
The purpose of this research was to identify the common errors made in English writing by Malaysian Chinese primary year 6 ESL students and to determine the extent of the influence of the first language, Mandarin in ESL writing. The Mandarin language uses a logographic writing system while the English language is written in alphabetic scripts. The…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pili-Moss, Diana; Schmidt, Torben; Blume, Carolyn; Middelanis, Lisa; Meurers, Detmar – Research-publishing.net, 2022
The present exploratory study investigated the efficacy of secondary face-to-face classroom-based English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction digitally supported by the FeedBook, an interactive computer assisted language learning web-based suite of exercises providing item-level scaffolded feedback. Seventy-seven native (L1) German…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Cenoz, Jasone; Leonet, Oihana; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article is on pedagogical translanguaging, understood as planned instructional strategies used with a pedagogical purpose in a multilingual educational context. The paper reports a study on cognate identification and cognate awareness carried out in a multilingual primary school. The study aims at analyzing whether the identification of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students