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Direct linkMarwan Abdulmohsen A. Almuhaysh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effectiveness of writing instruction within the Saudi EFL context, and its alignment with students' future needs and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 goals. Two schools located in two different regions with different disciplinary foci were selected for this study. Three study tools were identified to assess the writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Strategies, Foreign Countries
Shaohua Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Scope ambiguity arises when a sentence contains scope-bearing logical operators like quantifiers and negation (Fox, 2003). For instance, in English, the sentence 'Every horse didn't jump over the fence' can be interpreted as either 'None of the horses jumped over the fence' (surface scope) or 'Not all of the horses jumped over the fence' (inverse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Chary-Sy Tanya Copeland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Second language acquisition has been observed to be variable in its outcome such that, unlike native speakers, all second language learners do not achieve total success. Second language acquisition is made of macro and micro processes. External and internal (e.g., age, individual differences) factors are assumed to affect language processing in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Baierschmidt, Junko – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Lexical inferencing is considered a listening strategy that is commonly employed by advanced EFL (English as a Foreign Language) listeners and a factor that contributes to successful listening comprehension. However, investigations of the factors that influence inferencing success in listening as well as how much each factor contributes to success…
Descriptors: Inferences, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chepyshko, Roman – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The current project investigates developmental aspects of acquiring locative verb constructions in English as a second language. Locative verbs, such as "to pour," "to spill," "to spray," and "to sprinkle," constitute a prototypical case of an overgeneralization problem in language learning: Whereas some of…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Napier Boyer, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to ascertain if the reading comprehension skills of English-speaking fifth grade students improve when they study a second language. The research was done in an inner-city elementary school in Rochester, New York. The researcher provided a weekly after-school workshop in foreign languages for a group of children…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication
