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Ezeh, Nnenna Gertrude; Anidi, Ojel Clara; Nwokolo, Basil Okwudili – English Language Teaching, 2021
Language impairment is a condition of impaired ability in expressing ideas, information, needs and in understanding what others say. In the teaching and learning of English as a second language, this disability poses a lot of difficulties for impaired students as well as the teacher in the pedagogic process. Pathologies and other speech/language…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Martinez, Ana Herraiz; Hernández, Ariadna Sánchez – English Language Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the production of pragmatic markers (PMs) by multilingual students in a CLIL context. Previous studies have analyzed pragmatic competence in multilingual settings (e.g., Cenoz, 2003; Martín-Laguna & Alcón-Soler, 2015; Portolés, 2015; Safont & Portolés, 2016). However, to the best of our…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Alshumaimeri, Yousif A.; Alhumud, Abeer M. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aimed to examine students' perceptions of the effectiveness of virtual classrooms in enhancing their communication skills. Study participants were 43 female English majors at the College of Education at a Saudi Arabian university. This study was conducted during the first semester of the 2020/2021 academic year when COVID-19…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Long, Robert W., III. – English Language Teaching, 2018
For many sociolinguists, the issue of shyness and hesitation phenomenon has been problematic for Japanese L1 and L2 speakers, particularly in gendered interactions. Over the past decade, more Japanese are shunning conversations, relationships, and isolating themselves, which is accelerating the demographic crisis in Japan. Thus, this paper focuses…
Descriptors: Japanese, Syntax, Shyness, Interpersonal Communication
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Al Mamun, Md. Abdullah – English Language Teaching, 2021
The prime objectives of this study were to unveil the level of anxiety and the sources of English language anxiety of the tertiary level students of Bangladesh. Through a questionnaire survey using Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale developed by Horwitz et al. (1986), the study found that most of the tertiary level learners have high anxiety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Huang, Yi-Ching; Huang, Hsin-Yi Cyndi – English Language Teaching, 2019
Simulation technique could be effective if it is cleverly manipulated and incorporated in a project-based learning context. This current study aims to explore students' learning experience in a project-based simulated business context. The participants were 51 second and third year students who took Business English as an elective course at a…
Descriptors: Business English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Balla, Asjad Ahmed Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper investigates the level of anxiety due to learning English as a foreign language. It tries to answer these questions: (1) Is anxiety a factor in hindering English proficiency? (2) Does anxiety lead to fear of communication? (3) Which type of anxiety is high among tertiary level female Saudi students? The Foreign Language Anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Females
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Basöz, Tutku; Erten, Ismail Hakki – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present study aimed to investigate Turkish EFL learners' perceived levels of willingness to communicate (WTC) in English inside and outside the classroom. The study also aimed to explore whether there is a statistically significant difference between their in-class WTC in English and out-of-class WTC in English. The study, which employed a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication, Readiness, Intention
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Kamangar, Mohsen; Khany, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2016
Much has been written on the determinants that can expedite or hinder learners' willingness to communicate in second and foreign language contexts. Though the literature is abundant with studies on many of these variables, little if any can be found to have targeted EFL students of private institutes in Iran. An effort was made in this study to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
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Shafie, Latisha Asmaak; Yaacob, Aizan; Singh, Paramjit Kaur Karpal – English Language Teaching, 2016
The article discusses the investment of L2 learners in the English language on Facebook that they portrayed through their Facebook activities. It studied four informants consisted of diploma students in a Malaysian university. The study consisted of 14 weeks of online observation and semi-structured interviews. Data were collected from online…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
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Al-Bidawi, Sultanah Abdulmoslah – English Language Teaching, 2018
The aim of this study is to identify Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) that seem to be used more frequently by Saudi undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students and to discuss the sub-strategies amongst the main five strategies identified by Schmitt's (1997) taxonomy of VLS. The population sample of 94 undergraduates was selected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Ogunsiji, Yemi; Ojo, J. O.; Farinde, R. O. – English Language Teaching, 2015
In any society, the role of language has always been a very vital and incontrovertible one. The bible made us to understand that at the beginning, there was word and the word was with God and God was the word. The world and all that we have therein were created through word. This makes one to wonder about the power in language today. At all levels…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sciences, Scientific Methodology, Interpersonal Communication
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Teng, Bunthan; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper provides an overview of English language teaching and learning, specifically as it pertains to teaching English conversational skills in Thailand. The paper examines the shortcomings of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach, the current dominant pedagogical approach in the nation, and explores how the integration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Conversational Language Courses
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Xiaoqin, Liu – English Language Teaching, 2017
By taking Hyland and Tse's (2004) interactional metadiscourse model, this study attempts to compare the incidence of the interactional metadiscourse markers in letters to shareholders of American and Chinese companies in the financial industry and their rhetorical functions. This study makes American corpus of 41 letters and Chinese corpus of 37…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, North American English, Letters (Correspondence)
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