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Gholami, Leila – Language Awareness, 2022
Research on corrective feedback (CF) and language teachers' beliefs and practices on the provision of CF has been mainly limited to learners' non-target-like use of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms). Consequently, learners' non-target-like use of formulaic sequences, that is, collocations, idioms, lexical…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Pouresmaeil, Amin; Gholami, Javad – Language Learning Journal, 2019
This study investigated incidental focus-on-form in a free discussion English as a foreign language (EFL) class with no pre-selected syllabus. Fifteen hours of classroom interactions in an upper-intermediate class with 15 homogeneous adult learners were audio-recorded and analysed. The participants also completed separate uptake sheets for each…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Phonology, Second Language Learning
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Heidari-Shahreza, Mohammad Ali; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Learning Journal, 2016
Based on a prior study by Chen and Truscott, the present study investigated the possible effects of repetition (repeated exposure) and L1 lexicalization on the incidental acquisition and retention of 10 English target words by 90 Persian-speaking EFL learners at an Iranian university. Seven aspects of vocabulary knowledge were measured, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Retention (Psychology)
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Ghabanchi, Zargham; Ayoubi, Elham Sadat – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This study is an attempt to compare the effect of four reading conditions on incidental vocabulary learning and recall of intermediate EFL learners. A sample population of 120 Iranian intermediate students read two short passages in one of four reading conditions: 1) L1 Marginal Glosses (MG1--provision of L1 translations of unknown words), 2) L2…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Recall (Psychology)