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Teh-yi Dori Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Attaining Advanced proficiency and beyond has been a principal goal for second language learners, practitioners, and researchers. Achieving this level in writing requires producing connected discourse of paragraph-level length and nurturing the ability to arrange various linguistic units to form a unified and cohesive whole. This ability, known as…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Bilingual Education Programs
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Hailay Tesfay Gebremariam – SAGE Open, 2024
Although, written corrective feedback (hereafter referred to as CF) is applauded in many writing courses for fostering students' quality writing, its impact on grammatical accuracy in L2 students' writing remains a debated topic. Thus, this study looked into the effect of CF types on L2 students' grammatical accuracy in writing. To achieve this…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Written Language, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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Tereza Švarcová – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons for low retention rates among students in the Chinese classes in upper secondary education in the Czech Republic. The principal research question was whether Chinese characters were the main reason why many students decided to stop attending their Chinese classes. Semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Zhang, Shuai; Breuer, Esther Odilia; Grünke, Matthias; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The current study examined German spelling errors among students with German as their first language (L1) and those with German as their second language (L2) in Grades 3-4 (elementary school students; n = 127) and Grades 5-7 (secondary school students; n = 379). Five hundred and six students participated in the study. We performed two separate…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Analysis (Language), Individual Differences, Foreign Countries
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Warnby, Marcus; Malmström, Hans; Hansen, Kajsa Yang – Language Testing, 2023
The academic section of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT-Ac) and the Academic Vocabulary Test (AVT) both assess meaning-recognition knowledge of written receptive academic vocabulary, deemed central for engagement in academic activities. Depending on the purpose and context of the testing, either of the tests can be appropriate, but for research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scores, Written Language, Receptive Language
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Rawia Hayik – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study is situated within a male-dominated Palestinian-Israeli reality rife with issues of gender privilege. With a purpose to disrupt the status quo in my language classroom and positively affect students' beliefs towards gender injustices, I, as a teacher researcher, designed a unit on gender issues including a book set that would challenge…
Descriptors: Arabs, Sex Role, Reader Response, Oral Language
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Karina Cerda-Oñate; Trinidad Cisterna; Fernanda Norambuena – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study examines the impact of explicit and implicit pronunciation instruction on the segmental pronunciation accuracy of phonemes /s/ and /z/ in an EFL classroom of 11th-grade Spanish-speaking students. The research focuses on transparent and non-transparent words containing the grapheme <s> and the phonemes /s/ and /z/ and was conducted…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Accuracy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jiazhou Yao; Marianne Turner – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Interest in formal Nuosu Yi language programmes has been waning in Liangshan, China, even though Nuosu Yi continues to be widely spoken among Yi residents. In this paper, we adopt Hornberger (2004. "The Continua of Biliteracy and the Bilingual Educator: Educational Linguistics in Practice." "International Journal of Bilingual…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Pham, Luan Nhu – TESOL Journal, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between learner autonomy (LA) and indirect written corrective feedback (IWCF) in an EFL writing classroom in Vietnam. Forty-one intermediate EFL learners from a class of a foundation writing course volunteered to participate in the study. During the course, the teacher provided IWCF in response to the…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language)
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Reguieg, Fatima Zohra; Hamitouche, Fatiha – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The current research is significant. It aims to improve learners' writing and facilitate their academic achievement. This study examines learners' and teachers' preferences to written corrective feedback types in enhancing EFL learners writing. The main research question is to investigate the likes of teaches and learners regarding written…
Descriptors: Preferences, Written Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Mifka-Profozic, Nadia; Behney, Jennifer; Gass, Susan M.; Macis, Marijana; Chiuchiù, Gaia; Bovolenta, Giulia – Language Learning, 2023
We conducted a multisite replication of Yang and Lyster's (2010) study investigating the effects of recasts and prompts on learning English regular and irregular past tense. Our study was conducted with intact high school and vocational school classes in Italy and Bosnia. Our participants were young adolescents (14-15 and 16-17 years old), a…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Samuel, Aqeela; Akther, Mumtaz – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2021
This research was aimed to study students' perceptions of written corrective feedback (WCF) and their preferences about WCF at secondary level. Descriptive research design of quantitative approach was used. 1000 (500 boys and 500 girls) students of grade IX were participated in the study and selected from 60 schools (30 public and 30 private) by…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Written Language, Error Correction
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Ruth Swanwick; Samantha Goodchild; Elisabetta Adami – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This paper critically analyses the meaning and use of translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in the context of a bilingual deaf education classroom where there are asymmetrical sensorial experiences of being deaf and being hearing, and different access to 'codified' (either speech or sign-language) resources. The pedagogical…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, Deafness
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Loh, Elizabeth Ka Yee; Liao, Xian; Leung, Shing On; Tam, Loretta Chung Wing – Language Awareness, 2021
Learning Chinese characters could be challenging for many CSL learners due to the distinction in orthographic features between the Chinese written system and their first languages. While acquisition of orthographic knowledge could be important for learning Chinese characters, how they can gain knowledge about different aspects of Chinese…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Foreign Countries
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David, Samuel S.; Cole, Mikel W. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This article, a case study of a single instance of collaborative translation in the classroom, explores the role of material mediation and embodied activity in the linguistic problem solving work of emergent multilinguals. We describe one teacher's lesson with a small group of Spanish speaking students in her 7th grade ESL classroom. Collaborative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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