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Iranian EFL Teachers' Perceptions about the Most Serious Types of Written Errors and the Most Effective Feedback Types to Treat Them
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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
Identification of Sentence Types for Writing Skill in Teacher Education
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Demirezen, Mehmet – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
This research aims to explore the ability of English majors to identify the four basic types of sentences. English language has four types of sentences, each kind of sentence for different kinds of messages. Sentences are combinations of words that express complete thoughts. Sentences are basic building blocks of writing and communication;…
Descriptors: Identification, Sentences, Writing Skills, Sentence Structure
Fossilization Error of High School Students in the Acquisition of a Foreign Language
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Tejada Reyes, Venecia – Online Submission, 2019
The following work tries to analyze the possible fossilization errors of the students when acquiring a second foreign language. For this purpose, two languages have been chosen: maternal (Spanish) and foreign (English). In the present work we have examined the effects of the Spanish language and the English language when learning another language…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Word-Order Typology and the Acquisition of Case Marking: A Self-Paced Reading Study in Latin as a Second Language
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VanPatten, Bill; Smith, Megan – Second Language Research, 2019
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Classification
On the Role of Frequency-Based Cues in the Segmentation Strategies of Adult OV-VO Bilinguals
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de la Cruz-Pavía, Irene; Elordieta, Gorka; Sebastián-Gallés, Nuria; Laka, Itziar – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
The present investigation seeks to determine whether and under what circumstances can adult bilinguals deploy segmentation strategies characteristic of their two languages, or of their dominant language. To that end, we inquired whether the context language employed during the segmentation experiment (i.e., the language in which participants…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Languages, Spanish, Native Language
Why Two Are Not Always Better than One: Effects of the Non-Integrated Execution of Related Syntactic and Morphological Rules.
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Chavez, Monika M. Th. – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1994
The interaction of rules concerning verb placement and verbal conjugation in the acquisition of German as a foreign language is discussed. A study using constrained written tasks showed that accuracy in verbal conjugation varies by word-order environment and improves in tasks that focus solely on conjunction. Tests are appended. (Contains 49…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, German, Grammar