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Tao Zeng; Peng Xu; Xi Gao – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of explicit information (EI) in the context of Processing Instruction (PI) as an alternative to traditional teaching methods. PI encompasses explicit information and structured input activity (SI). However, the effectiveness of EI has been a subject of debate. To address this question, grade-7…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Huan Zhang – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Continuation Task, which closely links language inputs and outputs, is considered to be an effective method in foreign language learning. This paper is an empirical research that investigates the effects of interaction and alignment of Continuation Task in Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) writing. The participants are a total of 30 Cambodian…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cambodians
Maria de Lourdes Marisol Irwig – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this comparative study is to determine whether the linguistic input approach based on Krashen's (1989) comprehensible input (CI) and supported by Kolb's (2015) experiential learning (ELT) and Siemens' (2005) connectivism theory (CT) to improve eighth graders' Spanish speaking and writing linguistic proficiencies. Previous research…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Lieselotte Sippel – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2025
This article explores how soccer can be used as a lens to teach about German history, culture, and society. I outline three sample modules for an advanced German course at the high school or college level: The first module focuses on soccer in German history, the second on sexism and LGBTQ-related topics in soccer, and the third on soccer and…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Advanced Courses
Zilmer, Caleb – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed methods study draws upon theoretical perspectives from usage-based linguistics (UBL) and variationist sociolinguistics to explore four learners' use of second language (L2) Spanish present tense indicative verbal inflectional morphology (i.e., simple present conjugations). The study compares the frequency and distribution of students'…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students
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Judit Kormos; Kathrin Eberharter; Elisa Guggenbichler; Simone Baumgartinger; Viktoria Ebner; Benjamin Kremmel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Authentic listening increasingly involves being able to pause or replay recordings as needed. In this study, we investigated differences in the reported use of listening strategies and listening anxiety between single-play and self-paced test administration. We also analyzed the interrelationships among first language (L1) literacy skills, second…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension Tests, Literacy
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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
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Hanna L. Binks; Enlli Môn Thomas – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Numerous studies suggest that bilinguals demonstrate smaller vocabularies than monolinguals, and that bilinguals' breadth of vocabulary knowledge - both expressive and receptive - is linked to input frequencies in each language [e.g. Hoff, E., S. Welsh, S. Place, and K. Ribot. 2014. "Properties of Dual Language Input That Shape Bilingual…
Descriptors: Welsh, English (Second Language), English, Cognitive Ability
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Tao Zeng; Chang Xu; Jia Hu; Xiuzhi Fu – SAGE Open, 2024
This research investigated the impact of processing instruction (PI) on the acquisition of the English third-person singular present tense by Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners and whether this effect would extend to the acquisition of other language components. This study featured the pretest-immediate-posttest design and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
Thane, Patrick D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present dissertation brings together research on heritage language acquisition and bilingual education and makes inroads into the limited research on heritage language development in school-aged bilingual children. This study explores how bilingual education, patterns of exposure, and lexical frequency shape adolescent Spanish heritage…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Huang, Zilin; Benati, Alessandro – Applied Language Learning, 2023
This study investigates the effects of motivation and structured input on the acquisition of English past tense regular forms. The role of motivation in the positive effects generated by processing instruction has been investigated in one previous study (Farhat & Benati, 2018). However, more research is needed to generalize the initial…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input
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Azkarai, Agurtzane; Oliver, Rhonda; Gil-Berrio, Yohana – Language Learning, 2022
The interactionist hypothesis holds that conversational interaction facilitates second language (L2) learning by providing learners opportunities to receive meaningful input, modify their output, and attend to language form. Although research has often explored the efficacy of different types of L2 instruction (deductive or inductive), few studies…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Milton, James; Hopwood, Oliver – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The vocabulary content of the French MFL curriculum in England has received criticism (Häcker, M. 2008. Eleven pets and 20 ways to express one's opinion: the vocabulary learners of German acquire at English secondary schools. "The Language Learning Journal" 36, no. 2: 215-26; Tschichold, C. 2012. French vocabulary in Encore…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Xiaopeng; Mai, Chunping – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This article reports on two studies, testing how three different types of input (skewed first, skewed random and balanced) affect second language (L2) learning of English present counterfactual (IF-Is) and past counterfactual (IF-IIs) conditionals, two constructions differing in complexity. The experiment included a proficiency test, a pretest, a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Lea Vergara Mendoza – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that translations of language in standardized mathematics tests are not provided, which reduces the achievement scores of native-Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 4 and 8. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore teachers' perceptions of language translation for the National Assessment of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation, Scores
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