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Download full textWang, Guoqiao; Han, Ligang – English Language Teaching, 2020
The cultivation of students' autonomous learning ability is one of the significant and essential tasks of college English teaching. In this paper, the current situation of college students' insufficient autonomous English learning ability is thoroughly analyzed. Some effective and feasible strategies to cultivate students' autonomous English…
Descriptors: College Students, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Parveen, H. Naseema; Rajan, Premalatha – English Language Teaching, 2012
This article explores the significance of a word and the changes it undergoes in its form when it is placed in the hierarchy of grammatical constituents thereby forming a new word termed as vocabulary. This change or transformation is the result of affixations. Transformation becomes essential as the words learnt cannot be used as such in a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Yang, Weidong; Dai, Weiping – English Language Teaching, 2011
Rote memorization of vocabulary has long been a common way for Chinese students to learn lexical items. Cultural, educational background and traditional teaching practice in China are identified to be the factors that contribute to many students' heavy reliance on memorization as their sole approach to vocabulary learning. In addition to rote…
Descriptors: Rote Learning, Memorization, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries
Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid; A'lipour, Javad – English Language Teaching, 2010
A great deal of attention has been paid to the role of idiomatic language in learning a second language. It has been recently recognized by some second language researchers (e.g. Danesi, 2003) that second language speakers may sound unnatural if their speech is devoid of idiomatic language. This article is an attempt to see how the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Liang, Ting – English Language Teaching, 2009
Research in the field of second language learning indicates that proper use of language learning strategies leads to the improvement of overall Second Language (L2) or Foreign Language (FL) proficiency as well as specific language skills. This essay firstly attempts to build a theoretical framework of learning strategies theories by clarifying the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Wei, Xueping – English Language Teaching, 2008
Since the phenomenon of fossilization in interlanguage is proposed by Selinker in 1972, it has drawn much attention and commonly acknowledged at home and abroad. This paper introduces the definition, classification, presentation, and causal factors of fossilization in an attempt to help Chinese students better understand the phenomenon and avoid…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Problems, Interlanguage, Classification
