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Yu, Shuying – English Language Teaching, 2022
Most people want to be able to read their reading materials quicker and remember them effectively. Covering a large quantity of reading materials at a normal speed requires much more time than is usually available. Good readers, however, can cover a lot of materials by identifying key elements of a sentence for key idea with the help of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Materials, Reading Rate
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Guihang, Guo; Chen, Zhou – English Language Teaching, 2019
As an undergraduate program, Business English is still in the initial stage of development in China. It is a new inter-disciplinary and applied discipline, the teaching of which is practical and diverse. Teaching assessment is an important part of the curriculum teaching because it is beneficial for the teacher to obtain feedback, improve teaching…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fuli, Liu; Shuang, Song – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigates the learning situation of senior high school students in mainland China about acquisition of transferred negation of English sentence structure. Through translation test and questionnaire investigation, a survey is made about this language learning phenomenon among 173 students. From the study it is found that students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Syntax
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Mao, Zhicheng; Jiang, Lin – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper aims to investigate the effects of the alignment entailed in the continuation task on syntactic complexity in L2 written production. A total number of 48 sophomores majoring in English at a university in China were randomly assigned to two groups, one is the continuation group and the other is the topic writing group. The current study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Jiang, Lin; Xu, Xin – English Language Teaching, 2016
A continuation task provides learners with a text with its ending removed and requires them to complete it through writing in a most coherent and logical way. The current study investigated (a) whether the continuation task had a positive effect on text cohesion and (b) whether texts produced by pairs exhibited higher cohesion than those produced…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Collaborative Writing
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Hu, Chunyu; Li, Xuyan – English Language Teaching, 2015
Central to argumentative writing is the proper use of epistemic devices (EDs), which distinguish writers' opinions from facts and evaluate the degree of certainty expressed in their statements. Important as these devices are, they turn out to constitute a thorny area for non-native speakers (NNS). Previous research indicates that Chinese EFL…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Xu, Qi – English Language Teaching, 2015
The study aims to investigate to what extent Chinese EFL learners' language use is influenced by English textbooks. Such influence may suggest the existence of lexical priming effects. Based on detailed and systematic analysis of a learner English corpus, in comparison with a textbook corpus, the present study revealed striking similarities of the…
Descriptors: Priming, Textbooks, Verbs, Language Usage
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Gang, Xu – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to modular theory, there are interactive effects between the central modules and language modules. The central cognition may deploy and redeploy resources from language modules. Moreover, the language modules can activate the cognitive ability. So this paper studies the spontaneous speech of students who learn English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Modules
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Sun, Yanna – English Language Teaching, 2009
Shakespeare was not known to the Chinese until Lin Zexu's (1785-1850) translation of Hugh Murray's (1789-1845) "Cyclopedia of Geography" (1836). Afterwards Shakespeare in China saw many complicated changes, from being regarded as a story-teller to being fully received as a seasoned playwright and poet, and his plays were rendered into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Translation