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Kojour, Masoud Kermani; Heirati, Javad Kia – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study was framed in the sociocultural theory to look into the evolution of L2 learners' beliefs about the general English course during a term. One hundred ninety-eight male and female university students and their general English course teacher were randomly selected as the participants of the study. Data were gathered through the…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Xu, Jianping – English Language Teaching, 2009
This empirical study was undertaken to test the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer and Hulstijn, 2001) by examining the impact of three tasks on vocabulary acquisition. It was designed to test and develop the involvement load hypothesis by examining the impact of different reading tasks on the L2 vocabulary acquisition. The results show that…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Hypothesis Testing, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning