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Kyung Kim – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
Two questions regarding text signals' influence on second language (L2) science expository text comprehension were examined. First, the contextual relationship between verbal headings and non-verbal underlining signals (i.e., related or unrelated) was manipulated to investigate how these verbal and nonverbal text signals influence L2 text…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Ly Thi Phuong Tran; Long Kim Le – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Motion is a universal concept in common human perception. In the word system of a language, verb is inherently a very complex real word, both in terms of grammar and semantics, that complexity is due to the influence of the semantics of this word. However, in most of the previous studies, the authors often only focused on studying single word…
Descriptors: Motion, Classification, Form Classes (Languages), Dictionaries
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Nazari, Mostafa – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Despite the recognition of the importance of teachers' professional development, the exploration of teachers' Critical Incidents (CIs) as a type of professional development initiative has received insufficient attention in L2 teaching contexts. Motivated by the dearth of research in this area and building on complexity theory as its conceptual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers
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Vakilifard, Amirreza; Bahramlou, Khosro; Mousavian, Moslem – Cogent Education, 2020
Acquiring L2 Persian vocabulary is the main hurdle for foreign students who wish to pursue academic studies in Iranian universities. This study explored the effect of the cooperative learning approach and semantic mapping strategy on the acquisition of L2 Persian vocabulary. The study had a quasi-experimental design and included a control group…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Cooperative Learning, Semantics, Concept Mapping
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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Tretter, Thomas R. – TESOL Journal, 2012
This survey study explored perceptions and use of language learning strategies among English as a second language teachers and English-learning students (Grades 3-8, 10, and 11). The sample comprised 1,057 students (651 elementary, 275 middle, and 131 high school) and 54 teachers (31 elementary, 11 middle, and 12 high school) from 38 schools…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English Teachers, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes
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Cepik, Saban; Sarandi, Hedayat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
This study examines the interaction effect of age in L2 attainment. It explores whether success in foreign language learning at early childhood grades varies depending on age. It also addresses the beliefs of foreign language teachers regarding the variables under review. Eighty-three 11 year-old language learners who started learning English at…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Feuer, Avital – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
This ethnographic, cross-cultural study used a dialogic, sociolinguistic framework to describe learning processes in portraits of three immersion summer camps in the eastern US. Using the data collection techniques of in-depth interviewing, participant observation and textual analysis, the study examined the process of second language learning and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Structures
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Liu, Zhiliang; Chen, Guanying – English Language Teaching, 2009
To know the age effects in foreign language learning for children in China, we made both qualitative survey on the English teachers, the students and their parents by means of questionnaire; and quantitative survey on the students' scores from junior 1 to senior 2 (5 years) in the secondary school by analyses between those (over 30 students) who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Cognitive Structures
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Hung, Ya-Chen – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
The purpose of this study is to examine readers' comprehension as they develop their mental representation of reference in four sequential online texts. A total of 92 college students from three reading classes were recruited to complete the following steps in each text: (1) identify references, (2) draw the relationships between references, and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, College Students
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Hung, Ya-Chen – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
This study reports on our design of a computer system which supports the understanding of how students construct their mental representation of references and how the construction failures impede their reading comprehension. Three modules, "User interface", "Recording", and "Feedback" were implemented. The…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies
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Burgess, John – System, 1994
This paper argues that schema theory and discourse analysis demonstrate that flow charts, grids, and tree diagrams are the most effective models of how the mind organizes ideas in information sets. It shows how each of these frameworks can be used as the central device in an integrated model of language learning. (15 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Diagrams, Discourse Analysis
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Wong, Wing-Kwong; Yeh, Hui-Chin – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
The major purpose of this study is to assist college students in constructing mental representation of referential resolution in a computer system. Ninety students were asked to draw mental maps indicating the relationships between references, take reading comprehension tests, and fill out open-ended questionnaire. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Processes, Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension
Perkins, Kyle – 1986
The research reported in this paper is concerned with the ability of students of English as a second language (ESL) to apply cognitive skills in reading. The paper focuses on: (1) a validation study of an experimental test designed to measure Piagetian concrete operations in reading and (2) the effects of the paragraph types (additive or…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Difficulty Level
Podcameni, Abelardo; Salies, Tania Gastao – 2001
The demise of the behaviorist paradigm and the rise of the social, cognitive, and interactionist models of second language acquisition (SLA) have led to the understanding that constructivist mechanisms are part of the process. Given the variety of empirical findings and understandings research in the field has yielded, this study attempts to offer…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
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Skiba, Romuald; Dittmar, Norbert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1992
The acquisition of German in three adult Poles over a three-year period is examined based on an acquisition profile of each person that specified the sequences in acquisition. The findings suggest that cognitive factors must be considered to explain the varying degree of success in the acquisition process. (40 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Structures, Data Analysis
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