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Download full textWeizheng, Zheng – English Language Teaching, 2019
Foreign language teaching highlights the cultivation of the learners' communicative competence, because the main purpose of learning a foreign language is to use the target language to communicate. However, many students in higher institutions in China cannot speak English fluently after having learned English for more than ten years, although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Communication, Second Language Instruction
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
Pourakbari, Ali A.; Biria, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2015
One of the most significant current discussions in L2 classroom research has been related to the necessity of vocabulary in language learning.Undoubtedly, EFL learners with high levels of lexical knowledge perform better in writing and oral tasks. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate the efficacy of Task-induced Involvement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam – English Language Teaching, 2015
In recent years, a number of studies have attempted to assess the English vocabulary knowledge of high-school students and undergraduate university students in contexts where English is a foreign language (EFL). The present paper explores the lexical development of Arab undergraduates at a Saudi University where EFL is the medium of instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Vocabulary, Second Language Learning
Tang, Hersong; Chiou, Jer-Shiou; Jarsaillon, Oliver – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigated how task-based learning (TBL) developed the verbal competence of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) by employing qualitative and quantitative analyses. We compared the impromptu oral presentations on reading texts of 76 intermediate EFL learners given respectively in the beginning and the end of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sun, Xiaohui – English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper investigated a number of common ungrammatical patterns that were found in Chinese EFL leaners' free writings, in order to find useful pedagogical implications for English grammar teaching in EFL setting, especially in China. The corpus of writing data is examined by the author together with a native English teacher. Our findings suggest…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Baicheng – English Language Teaching, 2009
The present study, by use of questionnaire and vocabulary tests, has investigated the foreign language vocabulary learning situation of 481 undergraduates in terms of their perspective of vocabulary learning, strategy use and vocabulary size. Based on the questionnaire investigation and vocabulary level tests, the characteristics of the subjects'…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Metacognition
