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Kayali, Nurda Karadeniz; Altuntas, Asli – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
Teaching vocabulary is a big challenge for teachers, and also a huge difficulty for students is to remember the vocabulary items. The main purpose of this study is to create an enjoyable learning and teaching environment to help students revise certain vocabulary items and make students have fun by being creative. In that, memes are trendy…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Humor, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Najafi, Maryam; Shahrokhi, Mohsen; Shojaee, Maryam; Atharizadeh, Mahmood – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
This paper aimed at examining and comparing the effects of different humor-based strategies (joke, pun, and limerick) on vocabulary learning of EFL learners at intermediate and advanced levels. To this end, 120 EFL learners in a private institute were asked to serve as the participants of the study. They were then divided into two groups according…
Descriptors: Humor, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Victoria, Mabel – ELT Journal, 2019
The focal point of most investigations into classroom discourse tends to be on the institutionally sanctioned and legitimized on-task exchanges between teachers and students with particular attention to the I-R-F (initiation-response-follow up/feedback) structure. Liminal spaces of interaction such as during the small talk just before the 'lesson…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Andarab, Mehdi Solhi – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
The recent improvements in technology and their integration in language learning have played a facilitating role in vocabulary acquisition. Quizlet, an online teacher-/student-friendly tool, is one of the leading applications in vocabulary acquisition. Along with the effectiveness of visualization in acquiring vocabulary, humor has been also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sanchez, Alfonso Corbacho; Magro, Luis Javier Conejero – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
This article proves statistically the effectiveness of humour in the teaching of English and German to Spanish students of foreign languages. The referred lexicon is particularly troublemaking because of the difficulties that such vocabulary poses for Spanish learners of not-Latin-originated languages. The approach followed is a quantitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Humor
Yaman, Ismail – Online Submission, 2017
Culture is an indispensable dimension of human life and also foreign language teaching and learning process; and as a part of the current trend, diverse cultural elements are covered in recently published English as a foreign language (EFL) coursebooks. These cultural elements are not limited to the target culture but they cover local and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Humor, Incidence

Sanger, Dixie; Moore-Brown, Barbara J.; Montgomery, Judy; Rezac, Cynthia; Keller, Harold – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
Qualitative methodology was used to explore communication behaviors of 13 female adolescents with language problems residing in a correctional facility. Most participants expressed feeling dumb, disliked by friends, put down in school, and having trouble understanding jokes, and problems related to understanding the vocabulary in their texts used…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency, Educational Experience
Smith, Jennifer J. – 1990
The use of closed-caption television (CCTV) to help teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults was studied with a group of adult students in the Arlington, Virginia, Education and Employment Program. Although CCTV is designed for the hearing impaired, its combination of written with spoken English in the visual context of television makes…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Educational Television