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Ishikawa, Masako; Suzuki, Wataru – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Languaging--that is, using language to mediate thinking, orally or in writing--facilitates second language (L2) learning. As languaging requires the deliberate, analytical action of L2 learners, learners with higher language aptitude are likely to benefit more from languaging than those with lower aptitude. Thus, this study investigated the extent…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Written Language, Language Aptitude
Xiaoyan Zhang; Min Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examines the effects of the continuation task and the model-as-feedback writing task (MAFW) on English as a foreign language (EFL) vocabulary learning. Three classes of intermediate-level Chinese EFL learners were randomly assigned to a continuation group, a MAFW group, and a control group. Three aspects of vocabulary knowledge --…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Models, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
YiHsuan Wood; Jeffrey J. Green; Ellen Knell; Yu Liu – Language Awareness, 2025
This study used eye-tracking to investigate the real-time processing of phonetic and semantic radicals (components of Chinese characters that give clues to their pronunciation and meaning) by intermediate-level university Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners. Additionally, the study examined how knowledge and awareness of radicals affect…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Uchihara, Takumi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
The study investigates how the test modality (spoken or written) of classroom weekly quizzes influences vocabulary learning strategies and facilitates learning the spoken and written knowledge of form-meaning connection in L2 words. Japanese university students in academic English courses were assigned to two experimental conditions (spoken test…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, College Students
Stefania Spina; Irene Fioravanti; Luciana Forti; Fabio Zanda – Second Language Research, 2024
This article introduces the CELI corpus, a new learner corpus of written Italian consisting of ca. 600,000 tokens, evenly distributed among CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) proficiency levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. The collected texts derive from the language certification exams administered by the University for Foreigners…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Best Practices
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)
Abe, Makoto – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
How online interactants advance their talk in written interactions has been extensively investigated in different areas, including language learning. Applying a conversation analysis technique, this study examined how second language (L2) learners managed topics in L2 task-based text-chat interactions and the effects of L2 proficiency on their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Discourse Analysis
Tipaya Peungcharoenkun; Budi Waluyo – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: Research in the field of writing pedagogy within higher education has extensively examined the significant roles that feedback plays in the development of students' writing skills. However, comparative studies that investigate the efficacy of teacher-provided written and oral feedback, both with and without the aid of technology,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Technology Uses in Education
Vandeweerd, Nathan; Housen, Alex; Paquot, Magali – Language Testing, 2023
This study investigates whether re-thinking the separation of lexis and grammar in language testing could lead to more valid inferences about proficiency across modes. As argued by Römer, typical scoring rubrics ignore important information about proficiency encoded at the lexis-grammar interface, in particular how the co-selection of lexical and…
Descriptors: French, Language Tests, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Nadasdy, Paul; Aizawa, Kazumi; Iso, Tatsuo – Research-publishing.net, 2018
The New General Service List Test (NGSLT) (Stoeckel & Bennett, 2015) was designed as a diagnostic test to measure students' written receptive vocabulary knowledge. This test battery was developed based upon the New General Service List (NGSL) (Browne, 2013), which makes it appealing to teachers in Japan, and especially those who see vocabulary…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Language Tests
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)
Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff – Language Testing, 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Inferences
Zhang, Jie; Li, Hong; Liu, Yang; Chen, Yu – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Two experiments investigated whether exposure to Chinese characters and pinyin would facilitate oral vocabulary learning for Chinese as a first (L1) and second (L2) language learners. In Experiment 1, 48 second Chinese graders studied 15 made-up associations between spoken labels and pictures accompanied either by no orthography, by pinyin, or…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Chinese
Jang, Sung-Soo – English Teaching, 2020
The study investigates whether differences in metalinguistic information contained in written corrective feedback (CF) mediate its effectiveness for second language (L2) development. To address this, metalinguistic CF was distinguished into three types in terms of how specific its metalinguistic information was. They were then compared among…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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)