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Kumar, Narayanasamy Senthil; Dinakaran, Muruganantham – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2019
Social media networks have evolved as a large repository of short documents and gives the greater challenges to effectively retrieve the content out of it. Many factors were involved in this process such as restricted length of a content, informal use of language (i.e., slangs, abbreviations, styles, etc.) and low contextualization of the user…
Descriptors: Semantics, Social Media, Language Usage, Nouns
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Lolja, Saimir A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
In the beginning, humans had a tongue ("gjuhën," "Shqip"). Then, they could or couldn't let go of the tongue ("len…gjuhën," Shqip). Albanian natural tongue (Shqip) implies the use of the tongue in the mouth for articulating ("shqiptoj," Shqip) words. The eternity of Shqip (Speech) is in its words that are…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Maintenance, Human Body, Articulation (Speech)
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Sze Seau, Lee; Azman, Hazita – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This article introduces a classroom innovation, which was developed based on the principles of multiliteracies and scaffolding to enhance the mastery of multimodal skills of oral presentations among tertiary English as Second Language (ESL) students. The innovation, named the Responsive Multimodal Oral Presentation Pedagogy (RMO2P), was designed…
Descriptors: Speeches, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Angrist, Mira – NECTFL Review, 2022
This article describes how to help students connect what they learn in the language classroom to the outside world as they learn to understand, produce, and analyze spoken, written, visual, and cultural information in their second language (L2). As learners make connections between course material and the physical and virtual spaces where the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Art, Physical Environment
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Eisenlauer, Volker – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2020
Because innovations in media technologies affect all aspects of our daily lives, multimodal and computational literacies are becoming increasingly important as a way to empower English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in their second language practices. Content-sharing platforms, such as YouTube, provide instant access to authentic language…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xu, Wen – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Building upon the genre-based research in literacy and English as a Second language (ESL) education developed in Australia in the past three decades, this paper reframes a genre-based approach to teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) in a primary classroom. Grounded in Bernsteinian sociology while also working in transdisciplinary dialogue…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dinneen, Cara – English Australia Journal, 2021
This article considers the challenges heralded by digital technology in relation to the management of academic integrity on high-stakes Direct Entry English Programs in Australia. Firstly, a number of the ways in which students are using digital tools to complete assignment writing are examined. Secondly, findings from a review of academic…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Integrity, Barriers, Information Technology
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Gao, Linghui – English Language Teaching, 2019
College English writing is one of the four basic skills in English learning, which can objectively reflect students' language ability. Whereas, English writing is considered to be the most difficult part to improve. As we can see, in the essays of the Chinese college students, there often appears Chinglish, correct in grammar but unauthentic in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
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Jeung, Han Hee; Kellogg, David – Language and Education, 2019
The work of L.S. Vygotsky was popularised in the West between two great waves of educational thought: constructivism and cognitivism. Reception was therefore colored by three metaphors introduced by Jerome Bruner: 'construction', 'scaffolding' and 'narrative'. Narratives were to be characterized by features we call SELF: Subjects, Expectancy and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Figurative Language, Korean, Language Acquisition
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Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2016
Jim Carroll noticed basic literacy errors in his Year 13s' writing, but on closer examination decided that these were not best addressed purely as literacy issues. Through an intervention based on clauses, Carroll managed to enable his students to write better, but he did this by teasing out principles of historical discourse that underpin…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Discourse Analysis, History, Grammar
Karanjakwut, Chalermsup – Online Submission, 2017
This academic article is aiming at creating a reading comprehension lesson with a new paradigm called the P3C2R+GIRD model developed by a 9-year-experience author in teaching English reading skill who always found that one of the problems of EFL students in learning English language is the lack of reading comprehension which is an important skill…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Schemata (Cognition), Phrase Structure
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Haidee Thomson – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
This article introduces three important challenges and possible solutions when using spoken dialogue to measure the use of specific multiword expressions. The first challenge is deciding whether to count precise and accurate use of target expressions only or whether to extend the count to include variation. The second challenge requires addressing…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Speech Communication, Accuracy, Language Usage
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Memis, Muhammet Rasit – Online Submission, 2016
Foreign language teaching is not to teach grammar and vocabulary of the target language and to gain basic language skills only. Foreign language teaching is teaching of the language's culture at the same time. Because of language and community develop and shape together, learning, understanding and speaking a foreign language literally requires…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Dunn, Peter K.; Carey, Michael D.; Richardson, Alice M.; McDonald, Christine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
Learning statistics requires learning the language of statistics. Statistics draws upon words from general English, mathematical English, discipline-specific English and words used primarily in statistics. This leads to many linguistic challenges in teaching statistics and the way in which the language is used in statistics creates an extra layer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Mathematics Education
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Chitez, Madalina; Rapp, Christian; Kruse, Otto – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Phraseology has long been used in L2 teaching of academic writing, and corpus linguistics has played a major role in the compilation and assessment of academic phrases. However, there are only a few interactive academic writing tools in which corpus methodology is implemented in a real-time design to support formulation processes. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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