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Boers, Frank; Dang, Tu Cam Thi; Strong, Brian – Language Teaching Research, 2017
In a recent article, Boers, Demecheleer, Coxhead, and Webb (2014) deplored the lack of effectiveness for the learning of verb-noun collocations of a number of exercise formats which they sampled from EFL textbooks and put to the test in a series of quasi-experimental trials. The authors called for further investigations into possible improvements…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Okuyama, Yoshiko – CALICO Journal, 2007
This study investigated the effects of using Romanized spellings on beginner-level Japanese vocabulary learning. Sixty-one first-semester students at two universities in Arizona were both taught and tested on 40 Japanese content words in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) program. The primary goal of the study was to examine whether the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies