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Qi, Hongbo – English Language Teaching, 2022
Accuracy is widely recognized as one of the main dimensions in evaluating task-based oral performance. Indicators of accuracy vary in the literature of the effects of pre-task planning on the oral production. Enlightened by previous studies in pre-task planning and third-person singular "-s," this article intends to find out whether the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Graphs
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Lv, Lihui; Liu, Chunyan – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper investigated how production task combined with teacher feedback (in the form of recasts) affects child second language development, and the effects of task complexity on their production performance. 92 child learners of English in three intact classes were assigned to three tasks of different complexity (simple, +complex, ++complex).…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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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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Chen, Hsueh Chu – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study (a) conducted a feature analysis of the spoken data of Chinese university students in pronunciation, grammar, and discourse, (b) investigated the contributions of the discrete linguistic features to the perceptual ratings on foreign accent, comprehensibility, delivery, and general language use. Ten university learners were selected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
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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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Chamba, Mercedes; Reinoso, Martha; Rengifo, Elena – English Language Teaching, 2019
Since it is a productive skill, writing is considered one of the most crucial abilities in communication; nonetheless, EFL learners have difficulty composing texts which are both communicatively and linguistically competent. This study intends to explore the benefits of using authentic materials in EFL learners, with an emphasis on writing skills.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teaching Methods, College Students, English Language Learners
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Husnu, Muhammad – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study aimed at examining the effectiveness of demonstration technique to improve vocabulary and grammar element in teaching speaking at EFL learners. This research applied true-experimental design. The respondents of the study were 32 students (class IIA) as experimental group and 32 students (class IIB) as control group from the second…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Al-wossabi, Sami A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Recent studies in corpus linguistics have revealed apparent inconsistencies between the prescriptive grammar presented in EFL textbooks and the type of grammar used in the speech of native speakers. Such variations and learning gaps deprive EFL learners of the actual use of English and delay their oral/aural developmental processes. The focus of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jing, Huang; Xiaodong, Hao; Yu, Liu – English Language Teaching, 2016
As is known to all, errors are inevitable in the process of language learning for Chinese students. Should we ignore students' errors in learning English? In common with other questions, different people hold different opinions. All teachers agree that errors students make in written English are not allowed. For the errors students make in oral…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tian, Xiufeng – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article aims at the feature analysis of four expository essays (Text A/B/C/D) written by secondary school students with a focus on the differences between spoken and written language. Texts C and D are better written compared with the other two (Texts A&B) which are considered more spoken in language using. The language features are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English, Oral Language, Written Language
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Ho, Pham Vu Phi; The Binh, Nguyen – English Language Teaching, 2014
So far the students of Le Hong Phong Junior High School have been taught grammar with GTM (Grammar-Translation Method), which just prepares learners for conventional grammar-paper tests. Despite their considerable knowledge of grammar, the students fail to use the language they have learnt to communicate in real-life situations. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar
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Gao, Ying; Du, Wanyi – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper traces 9 non-English major EFL students and collects their oral productions in 4 successive oral exams in 2 years. The canonical correlation analysis approach of SPSS is adopted to study the disfluencies developmental traits under the influence of language acquisition development. We find that as language acquisition develops, the total…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Oral Language
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Khojasteh, Laleh; Kafipour, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2012
Using corpus approach, a growing number of researchers blamed textbooks for neglecting important information on the use of grammatical structures in natural English. Likewise, the prescribed Malaysian English textbooks used in schools are reportedly prepared through a process of material development that involves intuition. Hence, a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Wang, Zhiqin – English Language Teaching, 2014
Chinese EFL learners may have difficulty in speaking fluent and accurate English, for their speaking competence are likely to be influenced by cognitive, linguistic and affective factors. With the aim to enhance those learners' oral proficiency, this paper first discusses three effective models of teaching English speaking, and then proposes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Oral Language
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Liu, Dan – English Language Teaching, 2013
Many empirical studies carried out to test the three major functions of the Comprehensible Output Hypothesis proposed by Swain lend some support to the Hypothesis in one way or another. This study aims to investigate whether giving the Chinese EFL learners an opportunity for oral output encourages them to notice their linguistic problems in oral…
Descriptors: Role, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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