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Download full textKabli, 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)
Xia, Lixin – English Language Teaching, 2012
The paper discusses the infinitive errors made by Chinese college students. From the CLEC, all infinitive errors tagged as [vp5] are collected, and then the general distribution of the errors among 4 groups of college students is shown. Moreover, these errors are classified into 12 categories according to the characteristics of the usage. After…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ganji, Mansoor – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigates the Iranian EFL learners' Knowledge of Lexical Collocation at three academic levels: freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. The participants were forty three English majors doing their B.A. in English Translation studies in Chabahar Maritime University. They took a 50-item fill-in-the-blank test of lexical collocations. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage
Duan, Manfu – English Language Teaching, 2011
Chinese Students' English has its own characteristics. It is of significance to analyze and study these characteristics. The paper uses the corpus approach to study the misuse of tenses in Chinese College students' CET-4 compositions of the sub-corpus of "Non-major College Students" in the Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). Nine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Wang, Qiaoying; Castro, Carolyn D. – English Language Teaching, 2010
This study investigates the effects of classroom interactions between a) students and students and b) students and teachers on the learning of English passivization by L1 Chinese adult learners of English as a foreign language during the language input and output treatments. In phase 1, both groups were asked to read and underline the input…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
