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Download full textAksakalli, Canan; Yagiz, Oktay – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed at investigating EFL pre-service teachers' attitudes towards pronunciation and pronunciation teaching. Another purpose was to explore the outcomes of pronunciation instruction of EFL pre-service teachers' phonological development and, based on the findings, to provide suggestions taking learners' pedagogical needs into…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
Direct linkDzikovska, Myroslava; Steinhauser, Natalie; Farrow, Elaine; Moore, Johanna; Campbell, Gwendolyn – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2014
Within STEM domains, physics is considered to be one of the most difficult topics to master, in part because many of the underlying principles are counter-intuitive. Effective teaching methods rely on engaging the student in active experimentation and encouraging deep reasoning, often through the use of self-explanation. Supporting such…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Electronics, Energy, Science Instruction
Comer, William J.; deBenedette, Lynne – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
In response to Leaver, Rifkin, and Shekhtman (2004), Wong and VanPatten (2004) challenged instructors of Russian to present evidence for the claim that mechanical drills (Traditional Instruction) were necessary for second language learning, and to demonstrate empirically the claim that Processing Instruction would not be an effective intervention…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sentences, Second Language Learning
Russell, Victoria – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
This study investigated the effects of processing instruction (PI) and structured input (SI) on the acquisition of the subjunctive in adjectival clauses by 92 second-semester distance learners of Spanish. Computerized visual input enhancement (VIE) was combined with PI and SI in an attempt to increase the salience of the targeted grammatical form…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Virtual Classrooms, Linguistic Input, Conventional Instruction
Hilte, Maartje; Reitsma, Pieter – Annals of Dyslexia, 2008
Dutch bisyllabic words containing open and closed syllables are particularly difficult to spell for children. What kind of support in spelling exercises improves the spelling of these words the most? Two extensions of a commonly used dictation exercise were tested: less skilled spellers in grade 2 (n = 50; 7 years and 10 months) either received…
Descriptors: Cues, Verbal Communication, Spelling, Syllables
Qin, Jingjing – Language Teaching Research, 2008
This study was intended to compare processing instruction (VanPatten, 1993, 1996, 2000), an input-based focus on form technique, to dictogloss tasks, an output-oriented focus-on-form type of instruction to assess their effects in helping beginning-EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners acquire the simple English passive voice. Two intact…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, English (Second Language)
Toth, Paul D. – Language Learning, 2008
This study compares quantitative and qualitative results for task-based second language (L2) grammar instruction conducted as whole-class, teacher-led discourse (TLD) versus small-group, learner-led discourse (LLD). Participants included 78 English-speaking adults from six university classes of beginning L2 Spanish, with two assigned to each…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grammar, English, Native Speakers
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Ready, Set, Leap!"[R] is a comprehensive preschool curriculum that focuses on early reading skills such as phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-sound correspondence using multi-sensory technology that incorporates touch, sight, and sound. The "Ready, Set, Leap!"[R] curriculum is available in English and Spanish.…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Writing Skills, Early Intervention, Preschool Curriculum
Folse, Keith S. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
The present study used a within-subjects design to examine the effect of the type of written exercise on L2 vocabulary retention. Using input for the meaning and usage of the new words from a specially prepared minidictionary, university intensive English program students (n = 154) practiced target vocabulary in three types of written exercises…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education
