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Direct linkMinjin Lee; Jookyoung Jung – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study examined the extent to which textual enhancement and task manipulation affect the learners' attentional processing and the development of second language (L2) grammatical knowledge. A total of 73 Korean college students read an opinion news article in one of four experimental conditions: (1) textually enhanced, careful reading, (2)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Eye Movements
Hou, Junping; Loerts, Hanneke; Verspoor, Marjolijn H. – Language Teaching Research, 2018
The use of 'chunks' is not only a common and characteristic feature of first language use, but may also be a distinguishing factor between less and more proficient second language users. The present study aimed at investigating potential correlations between chunk use and holistically rated proficiency scores and development over time in advanced…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Macis, Marijana; Schmitt, Norbert – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study investigated learner knowledge of the figurative meanings of 30 collocations that can be both literal and figurative. One hundred and seven Chilean Spanish-speaking university students of English were asked to complete a meaning-recall collocation test in which the target items were embedded in non-defining sentences. Results showed…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Spanish Speaking
Nguyen, Thi My Hang; Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study investigated Vietnamese EFL learners' knowledge of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations at the first three 1,000 word frequency levels, and the extent to which five factors (node word frequency, collocation frequency, mutual information score, congruency, and part of speech) predicted receptive knowledge of collocation. Knowledge…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Eyckmans, June; Lindstromberg, Seth – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Corpus analyses of learners' dictionaries of English idioms have revealed that 11% to 35% of English figurative idioms show either alliteration ("miss the mark") or assonance ("get this show on the road"), depending on the type considered. Because English multiword combinations, particularly idiomatic expressions, present a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Phonology
Peters, Elke – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This article examines how form recall of target lexical items by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) is affected (1) by repetition (1, 3 or 5 number of occurrences), (2) by the type of target item (single words versus collocations), and (3) by the time of post-test administration (immediately or one week after the learning session).…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Recall (Psychology), Phrase Structure
