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Toluei, Bahareh; Tahririan, Mohammad Hassan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Anticipatory completions can be a potential place in which the second speaker expresses disagreement with the first speaker. 'Doing disagreement' is a significant feature of group work interaction, and resolving such disagreements can pose an interactional challenge for students in classroom contexts (Sharma 2012). Examining disagreement episodes…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Marashi, Hamid; Erami, Neda – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of choice theory-based instruction on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary achievement. To fulfil the purpose of this study, 60 female advanced EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 90 learners through their performance on a piloted sample Cambridge ESOL Certificate of Advanced…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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Pauwels, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2018
To date, research into vocabulary learning strategies has mainly made use of questionnaires about studying preferences in general or of interviews following a specific study task, focusing on finding out which strategies were most popular. The present investigation attempts to provide more insight into the effects of the parameters of timing and…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Ozturk, Meral – Language Learning Journal, 2015
This article reports the results of two studies on the vocabulary growth of advanced learners of English as a foreign language in an English-medium degree programme. Growth in learners' written receptive and productive vocabularies was investigated in one cross-sectional and one longitudinal study over three years. The effect of word frequency on…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language), Receptive Language
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Rahimi, Muhammad; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Language Learning Journal, 2016
This study was designed to investigate the effects of incidental unfocused prompts and recasts on improving English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammatical accuracy as measured in students' oral interviews and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) grammar test. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with pre-tests,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis, Advanced Students
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Pauwels, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2012
This paper reports on a quasi-experimental study of the effect of different vocabulary study materials and strategies used by upper-intermediate English as a foreign language students in higher education. Students were assigned a selection of 163 words from the Academic Word List and were provided with different types of study materials. They were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sentences, Study Habits, Word Lists