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Using a Corpus-Informed Pedagogical Intervention to Develop Language Awareness toward Appropriate Lexicogrammatical Choices
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Fernandez, Julieta; Yuldashev, Aziz – L2 Journal, 2015
The corpus-informed pedagogical intervention described in this article was developed for an advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) course designed for prospective International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) and implemented over the course of two class periods. Its primary goal was to offer students opportunities to gain language awareness of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teaching Methods, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning
A Web-Based Tool for Oral Practice and Assessment of Grammatical Structures
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Torrie, Heather – Online Submission, 2007
The grammar course objectives at Brigham Young University's English Language Center (ELC) are a list of grammar structures for each level that students are expected to be able to master. These objectives currently are only measured by pencil-paper grammar tests, providing information regarding receptive grammar ability only. Therefore, there is a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Speech Communication, Grammar, Course Objectives
Some Effects of Task Type on the Relation between Communicative Effectiveness and Grammatical Accuracy in Intensive ESL Classes.
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Turner, Carolyn E.; Upshur, John A. – TESL Canada Journal, 1995
Investigates Communicative Effectiveness (CE) and Grammatical Accuracy (GA) in fifth-grade students in intensive English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes. Using different types of elicitation tasks in a cross-sectional study, results showed CE and GA are not independent, but the relation between them differs as a function of task type. (28…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Objectives, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Talking on Paper? An Antidote.
Jeske, Doreen Pat – 1981
A technique to help English as a second language students master the basic elements of expository prose is considered in terms of course objectives and the types of assignments used to accomplish them. A characteristic of many highly verbal students entering a college program is their propensity to "talk on paper" in an informal, ungrammatical,…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Course Objectives, English (Second Language)