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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
Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2022
This article reports on the second language (L2) perception of contrasts among British English monophthongs. This study has two aims: 1) to explore the discriminability of contrasts in L2 British English monophthongs; and 2) to test the perceptual assimilation model-L2 (PAM-L2) towards the ability to discriminate British English contrasts. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Inpanich, Pipittaporn; Somphong, Monnipha – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the effects of the integration of indirect feedback and concordances on improving grammatical accuracy in Thai EFL undergraduate students' writing and to explore the students' perceptions toward the intervention. Thirty third-year undergraduate students who studied at a government university in Bangkok were the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mukhrib, Adnan – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study examined perceptions of students of the benefits of consciousness-raising tasks (CRT) and communicative tasks (CT) when compared with actual learning outcomes in a Saudi secondary school context. Qualitative data were collected from 60 Saudi speaking learners of English, at various proficiency levels, who had engaged in a sequence of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociolinguistics
BavaHarji, Madhubala; Gheitanchian, Mehrnaz; Letchumanan, Krishnaveni – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study examined the effects of tasks, with varying levels of complexity, i.e. simple, + complex and ++ complex tasks on EFL learners' oral production in a multimedia task-based language teaching environment. 57 EFL adult learners carried out a total of 12 tasks, in sets of four tasks within three different themes and different levels of…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Task Analysis, Accuracy, Language Fluency
Bei, Gavin Xiaoyue – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reports on a focused investigation into the immediate effects of oral narrative task repetition by two adult EFL learners of intermediate and high proficiency. Two participants performed a narrative speaking task after watching a cartoon video clip and repeated their performance three times, followed by a retrospective report in an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Video Technology, Language Proficiency
Rahimpour, Massoud; Hosseini, Pakhshan – English Language Teaching, 2010
This main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of task complexity on L2 learners' written narratives. It is argued that L2 learners' written performance is influenced by the complexity of task regarding accuracy, fluency, and complexity. 52 Iranian English learners were selected as the participants of the study. They were asked to…
Descriptors: Narration, Writing (Composition), Writing Achievement, Second Language Learning
Rahimpour, Massoud; Mehrang, Faezeh – English Language Teaching, 2010
It is argued that tasks with different structures yield different performances in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity. The present study is thus an attempt to investigate the impact of task structure on second language task performance. Thirty two upper-intermediate Iranian learners of English performed two narrative tasks (Structured vs.…
Descriptors: Oral English, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Accuracy