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Nick Henry; Briana Villegas; Kara Morgan-Short – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
An important issue in second-language acquisition concerns the role of explicit information (EI) and how it is affected by individual differences. The present study explored this question through a partial replication and extension of Fernández (2008: Experiment 2), which investigated the effects of EI in processing instruction (PI) for the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Direct Instruction
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Michaud, Gabriel; Ammar, Ahlem – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study addresses the effects of the timing of explicit instruction within the three phases of a task cycle (pretask, task, posttask) while considering learner's previous knowledge. Eight intact groups (N = 165) of French L2 university-level students (4 B1- and 4 B2-level groups) completed two tasks. Groups were formed according to previous…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Direct Instruction, College Instruction, College Students
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Faeze Safari; Alireza Ahmadi – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Integrated writing tasks, which require students to incorporate information from multiple sources into their writing, are gaining attention in language assessment and writing instruction due to their alignment with the expectations of academic and professional writing. Understanding what aspects of integrated tasks are perceived as challenging by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Second Language Learning, Information Sources
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Dennis Laffey – English Teaching, 2024
This paper presents data capturing Korean university students' familiarity with English online acronyms, examines factors that may predict this familiarity, and presents an explicit instruction intervention involving vocabulary knowledge of online acronyms. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) measured students' vocabulary size, while a self-report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Vocabulary Development
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Paul, Enni – Vocations and Learning, 2023
At some upper secondary schools in Sweden, newly arrived migrant youths can attend vocational courses while studying in the language introduction programme. The teaching practices in relation to language learning for newly arrived migrant students in this kind of school-based VET and how these practices are conditioned are investigated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Migrants, Vocational Education
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Mahmood, Rizgar Qasim; Aziz, Muhammad Abdulwahab – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The research on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing has garnered considerable attention over the years, particularly concerning the impact of corrective feedback (CF) on students' errors. However, in the context of Kurdish EFL students, this area of research has received limited attention, despite its potential to enhance their grammatical…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Written Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Michael Sadeghi; Mostafa Pourhaji – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Lichtman, Karen – Applied Linguistics, 2021
A great deal of research explores how implicit vs. explicit instruction affects second language learners' grammatical accuracy, generally finding that explicit instruction increases accuracy. However, no research to date has examined the impact of implicit/explicit instruction on learners' fluency. Additionally, nearly all the research has only…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction
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McManus, Kevin – Language Teaching, 2022
Investigations of crosslinguistic effects in second language acquisition (SLA) have contributed rich understandings about the ways in which prior language knowledge and experience can influence additional language learning. Building on this work, one recent line of research has examined the extent to which SLA findings about crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Language Research
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Raside Dag-Akbas – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
One of the most challenging aspects of being an EFL teacher is coping with reticent students who are largely unwilling to communicate. This mixed-methods single case study, conducted with volunteer preparatory class students experiencing speaking anxiety at a Department of English Language and Literature in Turkey, aims to determine whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Strategies, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
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Wiener, Seth; Ito, Kiwako; Speer, Shari R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
To test the effects of talker variability and explicit instruction on the statistical learning of lexical tone, 80 monolingual English listeners were taught an artificial language that mimicked Mandarin's asymmetric distribution of syllable-tone co-occurrences. Training stimuli consisted of either speech from one talker or speech from four…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Direct Instruction, English, Mandarin Chinese
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Zammit, Jacqueline – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2022
The pedagogy of language has since time immemorial majored in the use of pens and other printed materials. However, there occurred a separation of the teaching culture into two major categories; the "big C" and "little c", meaning high and popular culture. Over the years, advancements in various pedagogical techniques have made…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
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Elston, Andrea; Tiba, Chantyclaire; Condy, Janet – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2022
Background: Reading comprehension is one of the most important skills a learner needs for academic achievement and is something which many South African learners lack. Studies suggest that explicit teaching of comprehension strategies has the potential to improve literacy. Aim: The aim of this article is to determine the role of explicit teaching…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sendur, Kristin A.; van Drie, Jannet; van Boxtel, Carla – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
Background: This study focused on undergraduate L2 students' performance in written historical reasoning, particularly written historical contextualization, before and after participating in a historical reasoning course. The Content and Language Integrated Learning course was designed using a cognitive apprenticeship model and was based on…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Runhan; Yuan, Zhou-min – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The current study compares the effects of two types of pronunciation instruction (segmental- and suprasegmental-based) on the development of second-year Chinese undergraduate students' English pronunciation as against a group with no specific pronunciation (NSP) instruction. The participants were 90 university-level students in the Chinese…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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