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Zhang, Fenghua – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigates the pragmatic development of the refusal strategies to the four different eliciting types (1 request, 1 suggestion, 1 invitation, and 1 offer) by Chinese English major students with low-intermediate language proficiency. The data was collected through written discourse completion tasks, and coded based on the modified…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Almuhaysh, Marwan A. – English Language Teaching, 2020
Cohesive devices have long been a challenging aspect for second language learners of English, especially for learners whose native language is linguistically distant from English such as Arabic. This study investigates the frequency of using lexical cohesion by Arab ESL undergraduate students studying at the intensive English course at Ohio…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Arabs, English Language Learners
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Samad, Mujahitha Abdul – English Language Teaching, 2022
In many parts of the world, learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL) often face language difficulties and challenges in their performance in learning. These challenges and errors have multiple forms and causes, covering various language and skills aspects. This study focuses on the types of grammatical…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Wu, Baiyinna – English Language Teaching, 2022
The research was aimed to explore multilingual learners 'grammatical and pragmatic awareness from perspective of three layers of language awareness: perception, noticing and understanding in Chinese EFL context. The findings reveal that firstly, there exists negative correlation between three layers of grammatical and pragmatic awareness of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Grammar
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Alfuhaid, Sultan R. – English Language Teaching, 2021
Even though Saudi EFL students devote multiple years to improving their English-speaking proficiency, they struggle to achieve fluency. The present study, however, focuses on investigating the effectiveness of using Duolingo in EFL classrooms to enhance the participants' speaking proficiency. The participants who underwent this study were 28 male…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Cabezas, Erickzon D. Astorga; Beltran, Paulina Bahamondes – English Language Teaching, 2021
Over several decades, numerous approaches applied to EFL have resulted in theories and reasonings to teach and learn English. Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the most commonly used path nowadays, it has only resulted in minimal development of university learners' oral skills; i.e., English-beginner-level students usually attain…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alsubaie, Sara S.; Alabbad, Abbad M. – English Language Teaching, 2020
Recent studies on language acquisition and motivation have targeted Japanese language learners in a formal educational context, with less attention paid to learners who study Japanese informally. The current study aims to investigate the impact of Japanese animations in the context of informal third language acquisition. It targets the native…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Japanese, Multilingualism, Animation
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Tantiwich, Kornsak; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – English Language Teaching, 2019
Adopting the interactional linguistic framework, the study aimed at exploring the range and frequency of interactional functions of yes/no tokens used by Thai university students of A2 proficiency in their English conversation, and contrasting their use with that of English native speakers (ENSs). The data was derived from 83, two-three party…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Communication, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Samifanni, Faramarz – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study delves into the analysis of theories of language acquisition and teaching methods. A qualitative approach was used to analyze three language acquisition theories and five teaching methods to help and provide teachers with methods that are relevant and applicable in developing and enhancing the speaking skills of the students. Findings…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Boonraksa, Thidakul; Naisena, Suparvadee – English Language Teaching, 2022
Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign language teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely to facilitate both second language teachers and students to produce correct and appropriate collocations. The purposes of this research were 1)…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Rahayu, Endang Yuliani; Soepriatmadji, Liliek; Purwanto, Sugeng – English Language Teaching, 2022
In EFL teaching, it has been theorized that intelligibility can be achieved by relative closeness of oral performance to the standard of EFL proficiency. The current study sought to investigate the position of interlanguage performance of EFL college students in terms of intelligibility of the language product (Speaking). Ten students' Mid…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Luo, Yuehan – English Language Teaching, 2019
While research on students' perceptions of code-switching in EFL classrooms has proliferated over the past several decades, limited research has been conducted to understand students' perceptions with different levels of language proficiency in English. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected from students with different…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Nagao, Akiko – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study applied a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) model to explore how 27 first-year university students in two different English proficiency groups improved their lexicogrammatical choices and metafunctions for writing analytical exposition essays during a 15-week course. To explore how "the teaching learning cycle" influences…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Supakorn, Patnarin; Feng, Min; Limmun, Wanida – English Language Teaching, 2018
The success of language learning significantly depends on multiple sets of complex factors; among these are language-learning strategies of which learners in different countries may show different preferences. Needed areas of language learning strategy research include, among others, the strategy of grammar learning and the context-based approach…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Learning Strategies
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