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Jookyoung Jung; Matthew J. Stainer; Minh Hoang Tran – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Collocational knowledge is central to communicative competence, but many second language (L2) learners struggle to acquire this aspect. To address this limitation, the present study investigated if textual enhancement and frequency manipulation would affect incidental learning of collocations from reading. Fifty-four first language (L1) Cantonese…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements
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Michelle Mingyu Gu; Lianjiang Jiang; Wanyu Amy Ou – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decades have witnessed an increasing number of studies documenting native English teachers' (NETs') challenges in professional development and collaboration with nonnative English teachers' (NNETs') across multiple educational contexts. There are also debates in TESOL regarding the essentialized dichotomy of NETs and NNETs with…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Multilingualism, Teacher Characteristics, English (Second Language)
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Jie Wang; Yen Na Yum – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Learners entering higher education may learn specialized vocabulary of new disciplines in their second language (L2) with or without support from their first language (L1). However, these learners cannot rely on an established conceptual representation in L1 when learning L2 specialized vocabulary. The effects of learning a new concept in L1 prior…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training, Learning Processes
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Yung, Kevin Wai Ho; Chiu, Ming Ming – Language Teaching Research, 2023
As many students worldwide receive second language (L2) English private tutoring (EPT) that shadows school curricula, examining student perceptions of it is essential to understanding their L2 learning. From the L2 Motivational Self perspective, students' "ideal L2 self," "ought-to L2 self" and "L2 learning…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Chinese
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Yuan, Rui; Yang, Min – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study aims to explore a teacher educator's perceptions and practice of translanguaging in his education classrooms as a teacher of English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Adopting a qualitative case study approach, the research revealed that the teacher educator used three translanguaging strategies (i.e. integrating academic discourse with…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Case Studies, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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Rogers, John; Cheung, Anisa – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study examined the optimal learning schedule for second language vocabulary within an authentic classroom setting in Hong Kong. Following a pretest, treatment, delayed posttest design, fifty-two primary school students (Cantonese first language) studied 20 English adjectives over two learning episodes under spaced-short (1-day interval) or…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods