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Qiaoling He; Isabel Oltra-Massuet – Language Teaching Research, 2024
As one type of the most extensively used sentences, English questions are must-learn grammatical structures for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). However, it is commonly seen that English learners across proficiency levels produce ungrammatical English questions. To determine the source of learners' erroneous production, we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sudatip Prapunta – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
This research study aims to explore students' perceptions and reflections on the effectiveness of project-based learning (PBL) in a Thai-English translation course in the EFL context. The participants of this study included forty-nine students who were enrolled in the Thai-English translation course. The participants were asked to produce a…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Hsueh Chu; Han, Qian Wen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
According to the speech learning model [Flege, J. E. (1995). Second language speech learning: Theory, findings, and problems. In W. Strange (Ed.), "Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language research" (pp. 233-277). York Press], learners whose first language (L1) is a tonal language (e.g. Cantonese) can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Sino Tibetan Languages, Mandarin Chinese
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Christopher Saarna – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
This study seeks to clarify whether teachers are able to distinguish between essays written by English L2 students or generated by ChatGPT. 47 instructors who hold experience teaching English to native speakers of Japanese in universities or other higher education institutions were tested on whether they could identify between human written essays…
Descriptors: Identification, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Grammar
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Giraldo, Frank; Escalante-Villa, Daniela; Isaza-Palacio, Daniela – HOW, 2023
Language assessment literacy has gained recent attention in the field of language testing, particularly on teachers' profile. However, the literature on LAL is limited regarding teachers' perceptions of language assessment courses. In this paper, we used a case study method to characterize the perceptions of eighteen English language teachers into…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Loboda, Krzysztof; Mastela, Olga – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Mass adoption of neural machine translation (NMT) tools in the translation workflow has exerted a significant impact on the language services industry over the last decade. There are claims that with the advent of NMT, automated translation has reached human parity for translating news (see, e.g. Popel et al. 2020). Moreover, some machine…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Polish, Folk Culture
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Rafael Zaccaron; Donesca Cristina Puntel Xhafaj – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This mixed-methods study aims to investigate the bias in peer feedback. Thirty-two English as an additional language learners gave each other anonymous feedback on their texts. Half of the participants received feedback from their teacher disguised as peer feedback, while the other half received actual peer feedback. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peer Evaluation
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Almutwakkil, Mai; Alshakhi, Abdullah – World Journal of Education, 2022
This study aims to examine the challenges that face EFL teachers in applying negotiation for meaning pedagogy in teaching writing skill. To collect qualitative data, classroom observation and semi-structured interviews were employed as data collection methods whereas for analyzing the data, a thematic analysis technique was used. The findings of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Do, Hieu Manh – TESL-EJ, 2023
This study aims to investigate Vietnamese students' perceptions of portfolio assessment and how it affects their writing performance. Furthermore, the study explores problems encountered during the assessment process, which could offer professional support for teachers, particularly novice teachers, when applying this formative assessment to…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Portfolio Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Xu, Yi – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The research on interpreting aptitude has focused on the abilities, skills and personal traits of individuals in order to predict their future interpreting performance. However, an important variable between the personal characteristics and success of trainee interpreters in interpreter training, which is instructional practices, is overlooked.…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Aptitude, Feedback (Response), Short Term Memory
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Zaabalawi, Rafe S. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Prepositions form a hurdle for several EFL learners, Arabs in particular. One major catalyst is that the preposition systems in English and Arabic rarely correspond to one another. Most scholars who researched this area concentrated on the problem itself, rather than finding a successful remedy that can empower these students to masterfully handle…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bin Chen; Jinyan Huang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study examined Chinese EFL researchers' English abstract writing in language education. Using open-ended questionnaires, it first investigated 24 Chinese EFL researchers' perceptions of their challenges in writing English abstracts. Using generalizability theory and follow-up interviews, it then invited 16 experienced English journal…
Descriptors: Researchers, Academic Language, Documentation, Attitudes
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Dillon, Thomas; Wells, Donald – English Teaching, 2023
This study examined effects of pronunciation training using automatic speech recognition technology on common pronunciation errors of Korean English learners. Participants were divided into two groups. One group was given instruction and training about the use of automatic speech recognition for pronunciation practice. The other group was not…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
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Goldouz, Elnaz; Baleghizadeh, Sasan – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
This study was conducted to identify Iranian EFL teachers' perceptions regarding the most serious written errors made by young adult EFL learners, along with the most effective types of written corrective feedback to deal with them. Data were collected from 253 Iranian EFL teachers through a questionnaire made by the researchers and were analyzed…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Wheeler, Page; Saito, Kazuya – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Although intelligibility is a core concept in second language (L2) speech assessment and teaching research, the vast majority of previous work relies on audio-only stimuli. The current study set out to examine how linguistic and visual information jointly interact to determine the degree of speech intelligibility. Both first language (L1) and L2…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Native Language, Second Languages, Phonology
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