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Megala Rajendran; Moniza Ray; Ajit Ilangovan; Vinoth Kumar Chokkalingam; Anand Binod Singh – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Digital games are increasingly used in education to boost engagement and reduce stress. Digital game-based learning (DGBL) has improved the learning experience. However, further investigation is needed to determine the specific impact of commercially available, off-the-shelf (COTS) video games on English language skills. This study provides a…
Descriptors: Video Games, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Skills
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Safoura Jahedizadeh; Abbas Khademorreza; Somayeh Sadat Sarvari – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Although language skills have gained unparalleled momentum in language education, there is a paucity of research on one of the most significant subskills: vocabulary. Due to the underestimation of an efficient method to learn foreign language vocabularies, scant research attention has been dedicated to exploring the best vocabulary learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
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Mohammad Ahmadi Safa; Fateme Motaghi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Studies have documented the significance of scaffolding as a sociocultural theory driven type of assistance for the development of English as foreign language (EFL) learners' language skills in general; however, the comparative efficacy of various cognitive and/or metacognitive scaffolding procedures for EFL learners' listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Correlation, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Reza Zabihi; Danial Erfanitabar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study investigated the efficacy of varying degrees of written corrective feedback (WCF) explicitness on the accuracy of revised drafts and new pieces of writing among learners of different proficiency levels. A total of 130 learners of English were divided into three proficiency groups (basic, independent, and proficient users), with learners…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Revision (Written Composition)
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Maryam Barghamadi; Amanda Müller; James Rogers; Joanne Arciuli – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The study explored the impact of proficiency, frequency, L1-L2 congruency, and semantic transparency on the knowledge of multi-word units (MWUs) among Iranian L2 learners (N = 256). A gap-filling test was used to assess learners' productive knowledge, employing a high-frequency MWU list created with the lemmatised concgramming method. The list,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mahtab Janfada; Leila Iranmanesh – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Language tests, including international high-stakes English proficiency tests widely used around the world, are to be viewed as ideological constructs connected with power relations and center-periphery demarcations at different social levels. In this paper, we examine the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an instance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Namaziandost, Ehsan; Razmi, Mohammad Hasan; Atabekova, Anastasia; Shoustikova, Tatyana; Kussanova, Bibigul H. – Journal of Education, 2023
There has been an ongoing debate on the effectiveness of spaced and massed distribution instruction in second/foreign language learning. A number of studies in the literature have investigated the impacts of spacing effect on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' vocabulary acquisition. This study aims to expand the body of existing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development
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Gang Wang; Soheila Soleimanzadeh; Majid Elahi Shirvan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
As a social-interactional positive behavior, the flow of compassion (i.e., selfcompassion, compassion for others, and compassion from others), which refers to sensitivity to suffering in self and others with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it, has yet to be investigated in a highly social-interactional context such as foreign language…
Descriptors: Altruism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Mohammad Hassanzadeh; Mostafa Ranjbar – Language Teaching Research, 2025
While research into various dimensions of language learning strategies has been thriving over the recent years, grammar learning strategies (GLS) have largely remained under-explored. The present mixed methods research aimed to explore GLS in the three stages of classroom grammar tasks, while striving to determine the sequence of GLS and their…
Descriptors: Grammar, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Najafi, Maryam; Shahrokhi, Mohsen; Shojaee, Maryam; Atharizadeh, Mahmood – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
This paper aimed at examining and comparing the effects of different humor-based strategies (joke, pun, and limerick) on vocabulary learning of EFL learners at intermediate and advanced levels. To this end, 120 EFL learners in a private institute were asked to serve as the participants of the study. They were then divided into two groups according…
Descriptors: Humor, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Souzandehfar, Marzieh; Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim, Khaled – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing focus on innovative approaches to language instruction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. Task-supported language Instruction (TSLI) has emerged as one such approach. While previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of TSLI in improving language proficiency, its broader…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Bonyadi, Alireza; Kalvanagh, Mehdi Kheyrollahi; Bonyadi, Minoo – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021
Feasibility of maintaining an educational sustainable development (ESD) depends on exploring teachers' concepts on their common practices in classroom settings. Speakers in multilingual contexts commonly switch their codes, languages, during their numerous social interactions. Nowadays, the phenomena, code switching, has expanded to cover any…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Teacher Attitudes
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Yenkimaleki, Mahmood; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Soodmand Afshar, Hassan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The present study investigated the efficacy of segmental/suprasegmental vs. holistic pronunciation instruction in the development of listening comprehension skills by EFL learners, using a pre-test post-test design. Six groups of 20 intermediate EFL learners at a university in Iran took part in the study, all groups receiving the same amount of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Pronunciation Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)
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Khezrlou, Sima – Language Awareness, 2023
Although the development of implicit grammatical knowledge is highly desirable, not all grammatical constructions could be learned implicitly. Therefore, one of the ultimate objectives of most English as Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms is to aid learners in developing their (automatic) explicit grammatical knowledge. Using progressively complex…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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