Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 6 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
Source
| Journal of Psycholinguistic… | 2 |
| Arab World English Journal | 1 |
| English Language Teaching | 1 |
| Journal of Pan-Pacific… | 1 |
| Language Testing | 1 |
Author
| Aajami, Raghad Fahmi | 1 |
| Chen, Tianxu | 1 |
| Fujii, Kazuma | 1 |
| Ji, Min | 1 |
| Johnson, Daniel Ezra | 1 |
| Kormos, Judit | 1 |
| Luo, Chuanwei | 1 |
| Mitsugi, Makoto | 1 |
| Préfontaine, Yvonne | 1 |
| Ren, Jiaxin | 1 |
| Yang, Yixin | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Research | 6 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 6 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 5 |
| Postsecondary Education | 4 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Test of English for… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkRen, Jiaxin; Luo, Chuanwei; Yang, Yixin; Ji, Min – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study used an eye-tracking method to examine whether Chinese translation equivalents activated by English prime words can continue to activate their Chinese homophones. With 30 English prime words, and 60 Chinese target words as materials, the experiment used a Tobii eye-tracking device to collect data from 30 university students while…
Descriptors: Translation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Word Frequency
Chen, Tianxu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Word learning in a second language (L2) is a complex process, which is affected by learner-related (e.g., morphological awareness) and language-related (e.g., word semantic transparency) factors. Morphological awareness is learners' sensitivity to the morphological structure of printed words, and semantic transparency is the degree to which…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages)
Download full textAajami, Raghad Fahmi – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Expanding the English vocabulary for Iraqi second language (L2) learners is a challenging task. In the present work, Langacker's cognitive linguistic theory of domains (1987) is adopted to provide a new sight into vocabulary learning, and to expand the vocabulary repertoire of Iraqi students. This paper aims at testing the validity of expanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Mitsugi, Makoto – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of two instruction methods for teaching polysemous English prepositions ("at, in, on") and to explore learners' perception on learning tools used in the instruction when learning polysemous words. The first study investigated the effectiveness of schema-based instruction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning
Préfontaine, Yvonne; Kormos, Judit; Johnson, Daniel Ezra – Language Testing, 2016
While the research literature on second language (L2) fluency is replete with descriptions of fluency and its influence with regard to English as an additional language, little is known about what fluency features influence judgments of fluency in L2 French. This study reports the results of an investigation that analyzed the relationship between…
Descriptors: Prediction, French, Second Language Learning, Evaluators
Fujii, Kazuma – English Language Teaching, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to compare the efficiency of the core schema-based instruction (SBI) in learning English prepositions between two groups that were placed depending on learners' level of English proficiency. The SBI in the present study refers to a way of teaching in which the schematic core meaning of a given lexical item is provided.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semantics, Language Proficiency
