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Ahmad, Iftikhar – English Language Teaching, 2018
While much has been written about teacher cognition in grammar teaching, research investigating non-native English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher cognition in grammar teaching remains limited. This study intends to investigate non-native EFL teacher cognition in teaching grammar to university students in the Saudi Arabian context. More…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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
Alasmary, Abdullah A. – English Language Teaching, 2019
Strong claims are made regarding the significant role that multiword sequences play in the comprehension and production of speech and writing. Although the literature is replete with research-informed, evidence-based guidelines on how to maximize the learning of such sequences, such guidelines need to be synthesized, analyzed and evaluated for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure
Gao, Linghui – English Language Teaching, 2019
College English writing is one of the four basic skills in English learning, which can objectively reflect students' language ability. Whereas, English writing is considered to be the most difficult part to improve. As we can see, in the essays of the Chinese college students, there often appears Chinglish, correct in grammar but unauthentic in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Long, Robert; Hatcho, Yui – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study focused on the grammatical accuracy of Japanese students who were learning English. The database for the errors came from the Japanese University Student Corpus (JUSC) comprising 61 transcripts containing 51,061 words. An inventory, containing 400 errors in context, was taken from this corpus. The first research question related to the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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)
Lodhi, Muhammad Arfan; Jabeen, Rabia; Mustafa, Sadaf; Siddique, Naheed; Liaqat, Aqsa; Robab, Irum – English Language Teaching, 2019
Quality Education is the bedrock foundation of primary level of educational pyramid. It helps not only in the development of individuals but also improve their living standard at academic and professional domains. Government of Punjab has initiated a literacy and numeracy drive movement to enhance the literacy rate. English is the major focus of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Altmisdort, Gonca – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated whether transfer from L2 to L1 in reading occurs, and if so, which reading sub-skills are transferred into L1 reading. The aim is to identify the role of second language reading skills in L1 reading skills by means of transfer. In addition, the positive effects of the second language transfer to the first language in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Transfer of Training, Native Language
Ahmed Al-Hassaani, Abdulbari Mahboob – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper has studied the question formation techniques used by the Saudi students at Bisha University. It addresses the problems faced by the students in forming questions in English. The study has identified that a large number of the students suffer from the lack of proper grammar rules in forming various types of interrogative sentences and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Questioning Techniques, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
Qian, Cuijing – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aims to investigate the acquisition of English verb morphology by learners of two typologically different L1s and the role of L1 transfer in the acquisition pattern, a cross-sectional study (n = 180) carried with Chinese and Mongolian college students learning English at two proficiency levels, using the cloze passage and composition.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Statistical Analysis, Asians, Grammar
AL-Malki, Eidhah Abdullah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Omar, Noor Abidah Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1999 by Biber et al. (p. 266) generic article uses are more than twice as common in academic English than in conversation or fiction. This is an area that English for Academic Purpose (EPA) textbooks and teachers would need to target more than general English teaching. This paper is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Indonesian Languages, Grammar, English (Second Language)
Watcharapunyawong, Somchai; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study aimed at analyzing writing errors caused by the interference of the Thai language, regarded as the first language (L1), in three writing genres, namely narration, description, and comparison/contrast. 120 English paragraphs written by 40 second year English major students were analyzed by using Error Analysis (EA).The results revealed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interference (Language)
Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research study investigated the influence of learners' mother tongue on their acquisition of English collocations. Having drawn the linguistic data from two groups of Thai EFL learners differing in English proficiency level, the researcher found that the native language (L1) plays a significant role in the participants' collocation learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure
Khresheh, Asim – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study aims to investigate when and why to use Arabic as L1 in the Saudi Arabian EFL classroom. For this purpose, 45 classroom observations were performed for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of students. 5 classes were chosen randomly for each level and each class was observed three times. Based on the classroom observations,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Mirza, Golam Hoshain; Mahmud, Khaled; Jabbar, Jahanara – English Language Teaching, 2012
There has been a continuous debate over a long period over the issue of using the learner's mother tongue in teaching the second language. We have two schools in this regard--monolingual approach and bilingual approach. Those advocating the monolingual approach have claimed that learning is determined by the quantity of exposure to the target…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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