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Developing Pragmatic Comprehension and Production: Corpus-Based Teaching of Formulaic Sequences in an EFL Setting
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Yilmaz, Nihan; Koban Koc, Didem – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The present study aims to explore the effects of corpus-based teaching on English language learners' pragmatic comprehension and production of 19 formulaic sequences (FS), categorized under agreements, disagreements, self-clarifications and other-clarifications. The study had a quasi-experimental research design with a pre-test, immediate…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Recall Efficacy in EFL Learning
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Makarchuk, Donald – English Teaching, 2018
This study investigated the efficacy of retrieving EFL vocabulary from memory as a long-term retention strategy. Three learning treatments, rereading, recognizing and recalling target words, were compared with the assistance of 74 university students who underwent the treatments to learn academic American English during a 15-week semester. In…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Subtitling Cultural Expressions from English into Arabic
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Saleh Majed Al Abwaini – Journal of English as an International Language, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the problems that translators faced when subtitling cultural expressions from English into Arabic. To achieve this goal, the researchers selected a convenient sample comprising 40 graduate and 40 undergraduate students who were enrolled in the English language programs during the academic year 2012/2013 in…
Descriptors: Captions, Arabic, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning