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Abdullah Faruk Kiliç; Meltem Acar Güvendir; Gül Güler; Tugay Kaçak – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2025
In this study, the extent to wording effects impact structure and factor loadings, internal consistency and measurement invariance was outlined. The modified form, which includes items that semantically reversed, explains %21.5 more variance than the original form. Also, reversed items' factor loadings are higher. As a result of CFA, indexes…
Descriptors: Test Items, Factor Structure, Test Reliability, Semantics
Vargas González, María Fernanda; Fernández-Plaza, José Antonio; Ruiz Hidalgo, Juan Francisco – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
This article aims to delve into the meaning of school mathematical concepts by their semantic analysis. Concretely, this paper aimed primarily to describe and characterize the meaning of derivative of a function at a point expressed by mathematics pre-service teachers. In order to achieve this goal, we use a semantic framework, in which the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Mathematical Concepts, Semantics
Yoshiki Fujiwara; Hiroyuki Shimada – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The goal of this paper is to tease apart two approaches to the source of children's consistent scope assignment in negative sentences containing logical connectives: the Semantic Subset Principle and the Semantic Subset Maxim. Previous developmental work has observed that four- to six-year-old children across languages have difficulty with…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
Duklim, Bunyarat – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigates probable causes of translation errors by examining types of Thai-to-English and English-to-Thai translation errors and determining the most common translation errors. The participants of this study were 32 English for Communication students at a Thai University. The data used in this study was obtained from exercises and…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Thai, Error Patterns
Hermas, Abdelkader – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study investigates the acquisition of genericity in L2 French and L3 English. While some exponents become generic by assembling morphological, syntactic and discursive cues, definite singular nominals additionally require the well-established kind restriction. It is a pragmatic and language-specific constraint. The participants are L1 Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Zhang, Fenghua – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigates the pragmatic development of the refusal strategies to the four different eliciting types (1 request, 1 suggestion, 1 invitation, and 1 offer) by Chinese English major students with low-intermediate language proficiency. The data was collected through written discourse completion tasks, and coded based on the modified…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ai Nhan Nguyen; Tuan Van Vu; Thuy Thanh Le – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
Legal language is characterized by its specialized lexicology, often formed through derivational processes such as affixation, nominalization, and semantic derivation, making legal texts more challenging to understand. This research examined how university students majoring in legal English linguistics recognize, interpret, and manage the…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Laws, Language Styles, Lexicology
Xi Yu; Frank Boers – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
There are grounds for believing that prompting language learners to infer the meaning of new lexical items is beneficial because inferring the meaning of lexical items and verifying one's inferences invites more cognitive investment than simply being presented with the meanings. However, concerns have been raised over the risk that wrong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences
Alqraini, Faisl M.; Paul, Peter V. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
Building vocabulary knowledge, especially breadth and depth of word meanings, is a crucial step in assisting students to read and comprehend print independently. A large body of research has documented the low reading achievement levels of a number of Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. The goal of the present study was to examine the effects…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Instructional Effectiveness
Fujino, Hanako – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study reports on the findings of a questionnaire administered to 93 students studying Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) at British universities, focusing on their views of the role of grammar in their learning of Japanese. Learners' views are important because mismatches with their teachers' views can affect their learning negatively.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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)
Weidinger, Nicole; Lindner, Katrin; Hogrefe, Katharina; Ziegler, Wolfram; Goldenberg, Georg – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
This study examined how 5- and 9-year-old children (N = 40) produce pantomimes of object use on verbal request. The task required participants to enact an action with an imagined object. Results showed that with age, children (a) proceeded from body part as object to imaginary object and (b) incorporated into their pantomimes more distinctive…
Descriptors: Children, Pantomime, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Joyce, Paul; von Dietze, Hans; von Dietze, Alison; McMillan, Brian – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2021
This study investigated the issue of L1 use in the L2 classroom from the students' perspective. Specifically, the focus of this study was on the characteristics of learners who desired L1 classroom support in their L2 learning. For the purposes of the study, a convenience sample of 380 Japanese university-level EFL participants completed a series…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Native Language
Khamkhien, Attapol – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
Apart from speaking competence and vocabulary used, refusal strategies play an important role in a communication scenario. This paper investigates how Thai students realise the speech act of refusals to the initiating acts of suggestions, offers, requests, and invitations with regard to the status of the interlocutor. To achieve this objective,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Oral Language, Undergraduate Students
Lee, Abby Deng-Huei – English Language Teaching, 2018
To evaluate the sensitivity of multiple-choice cloze (MCC) tests that use different types of items--syntactic, semantic, and connective--to assess reading ability, 170 English as a foreign language (EFL) students in a vocational college in Taiwan were recruited. The students were divided into two groups (level A and level B) based on their scores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Choice Tests, Cloze Procedure, Test Items