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Cardimona, Kimberly; Smith, Pamela; Roberts, Lauren Sones – TESOL Journal, 2016
This study examined lexical organization in English language learners (ELLs) who acquired their second language (L2) either during or after the period of maximal sensitivity related to the critical period hypothesis. Twenty-three native-Spanish-speaking ELLs completed psycholinguistic tasks to examine age effects in bilingual lexical organization.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking, Psycholinguistics
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Haghighi, Somayeh Biparva; Shooshtari, Zohreh G.; Jalilifar, Alireza – TESOL Journal, 2019
This study explored how a collaborative approach in teaching for disciplinary academic writing would influence the transfer of learning in postgraduate students with varied writing proficiency levels. A sample population of 58 medical students majoring in four different medical sciences participated in this research. Throughout a whole semester,…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teacher Collaboration, Content Area Writing, Academic Language
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Medley, Michael – TESOL Journal, 2012
Because English language teachers should take into account the social-psychological situation of the students they teach, they must be sensitive to the effects of traumatic stress among learners. Refugee and immigrant children are frequently survivors of trauma, along with their peers in crisis-torn English as a foreign language settings around…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Language Arts, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)