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Hani Hamad M. Albelihi; Arif Al-Ahdal – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The current study explores error fossilization in the academic writing of Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduate learners. A manual textual analysis approach, employing corpus content analysis on writing across diverse genres including argumentative, expository, narrative, and descriptive essays was conducted to discover the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
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Dunworth, Katie; Grimshaw, Trevor; Iwaniec, Janina; McKinley, Jim – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Within the currently diverse UK higher education environment, one important aspect of learning is the development of intercultural competence. The study that informs this paper investigated the ways intercultural competence was perceived as being enhanced or inhibited through current language and educational practices at a university that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Liao, Fei-Hsuan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
The issue of phrasal verb learning has caused much discussion and attracted vigorous investigation. Inspired by the theory of conceptual metaphor, a pedagogical experiment was conducted to investigate whether an approach focussing on sense extension of particle "out" in terms of conceptual metaphors can enhance the learning of phrasal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Native Language, Phrase Structure, Verbs
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Santiago, Julio; Ouellet, Marc; Roman, Antonio; Valenzuela, Javier – Cognitive Science, 2012
Conceptual congruency effects are biases induced by an irrelevant conceptual dimension of a task (e.g., location in vertical space) on the processing of another, relevant dimension (e.g., judging words' emotional evaluation). Such effects are a central empirical pillar for recent views about how the mind/brain represents concepts. In the present…
Descriptors: Attention, Prompting, Priming, Concept Formation
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Al Soudi, Layth – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper aims to investigate the use of connotations of inanimate objects to describe people by speakers of Jordanian Arabic. Its main goal is to analyze the positive and negative connotative meanings of inanimate object used to describe people in Jordan. Besides, the contribution of gender in making connotative meanings. The study provides a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Language Research, Pragmatics
Lee, Hyewon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In recent years, L2 researchers from the sociocultural and cognitive linguistic perspectives have emphasized the importance of properly organized explicit and in-depth grammar instruction for second or foreign language learning. Such instruction is believed to lead learners to systematic understanding of the target features faster and more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure, Verbs