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Download full textTai, Hsuan-Yu; Chen, Yuan-Shan – Education Sciences, 2021
The present study aimed to examine the effect of proficiency on the pragmatic comprehension of speech acts, implicatures, and routines, as well as the way learners of different proficiency levels employ strategies when comprehending a pragmatic task. Thirty-three high-proficiency and forty-one low-proficiency Chinese learners of English completed…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkChen, Pei-Hua; Fu, Jen-Tso – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
The Revised Preschool Language Assessment (RPLA) is a standardized measure for examining the language status of and determining potential language difficulties among preschoolers between 3 and 6 years old. To facilitate the applicability of the RPLA for use with Mandarin-speaking children, the present study adopted exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children, Language Tests, Standardized Tests
Yeldham, Michael – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study examined the influence of formulaic language on second language (L2) listeners' lower-level processing, in terms of their ability to accurately identify the words in texts. On the one hand, there were reasons for expecting the presence of the formulas to advantage the learners, because the learners would process these formulaic words…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Huang, Hsin-chou – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
With the advancement of such Web 2.0 applications as weblogs, language learners have more opportunities to use a target language for communication purposes and to experience peer collaboration and interaction. In the search for ways to augment an EFL curriculum in which speaking practice is limited but the demand for improving oral proficiencies…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Semi Structured Interviews, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language)
Yang, Pi-Lan; Shih, Su-Chin – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Using a self-paced reading task, the study aimed to investigate (a) whether English learners in Taiwan immediately resolve main verb versus reduced relative clause ambiguities in a similar way as native English speakers and (b) whether the learners at various English proficiency levels show diverse profiles. With analyses and syntheses of reading…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Using a Two-Tier Test in Examining Taiwan Graduate Students' Perspectives on Paraphrasing Strategies
Sun, Yu-Chih – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
This study examines Taiwanese English as a foreign language (EFL) graduate students' perspectives on paraphrasing strategies. A two-layer scenario survey was developed to identify the reasoning behind students' judgments that certain paraphrasing is appropriate or inappropriate. The first-layer scenario survey is in a true-false format that…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
