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Li, Xi-ping – English Language Teaching, 2021
Writing is one of productive skills and a way of conveying information considered to be the most complex and the most challenging skill for EFL English learners to acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on the revelation of the characteristic of writings of EFL learners and how to improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kabli, Hanan Mohammed – English Language Teaching, 2020
The present study investigates the effect of the first language (L1) on learners by using the negative and the positive evidence in the classrooms while teaching English directional prepositions such as 'to' and 'into'. It is assumed that Arabic has two versions of 'to'. It has the directional interpretation without boundary-crossing which is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ghasemi, Hadis; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
Both lack of time and the need to translate texts for numerous reasons brought about an increase in studying machine translation with a history spanning over 65 years. During the last decades, Google Translate, as a statistical machine translation (SMT), was in the center of attention for supporting 90 languages. Although there are many studies on…
Descriptors: Translation, Indo European Languages, Second Languages, English
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Hill, L. A. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Based on a paper read at the third Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in London, England, December 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Illustrations, Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Richards, Jack C. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Based on a paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1970, San Francisco, California. (DS)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)