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Download full textVela, Adriana; Jones, Don; Mundy, Marie-Anne; Isaacson, Carrie – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
This ex-post-facto quasi-experimental research design was conducted by selecting a convenient sample of approximately 2,000 3rd grade ELLs who took the regular reading and math English STAAR test during the 2014-15 school year in an urban southern Texas school district. This study was conducted using a quantitative research method of data…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests
Yusuf, Mohamad A.; Sim, Tam S.; Su'ad A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Learning vocabulary forms a major part for any language learner. Apart from direct teaching of vocabulary, language teachers are always searching for ways to increase their students' vocabulary to enable them to use the language more effectively. Therefore, this study sets out to investigate whether the use of computer textual glosses can aid…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language)
Direct linkAbuSeileek, Ali; Abualsha'r, Awatif – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This study investigated the effect of using computer-mediated corrective feedback on EFL learners' performance in writing. Sixty-four intermediate-level learners were randomly assigned to either a no-feedback control condition or a corrective feedback, including three treatment conditions. The first is the "track changes" feature of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
Macías, Ana H.; da Luz Fontes, Ana Areas; Kephart, Kerrie; Blume, María – TESOL Journal, 2013
The authors report on an exploratory pilot project implemented in a large city on the U.S.-Mexico border. The project focuses on a curricular design in a secondary school where beginning-level English as a second language students are taught English language arts in Spanish. The researchers sought to determine whether these students made greater…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness, Performance Factors
Filippini, Alexis L.; Gerber, Michael M.; Leafstedt, Jill M. – International Journal of Special Education, 2012
This study examined the added value of a vocabulary plus phonological awareness (vocab+) intervention against a phonological awareness (PA only) intervention only. The vocabulary intervention built networks among words through attention to morphological and semantic relationships. This supplementary classroom instruction augmented existing…
Descriptors: Intervention, Semantics, Reading Difficulties, Second Language Learning
Llanes, Angels; Munoz, Carmen – Language Learning, 2013
This study examines the effects of learning context and age on second language development by comparing the language gains, measured in terms of oral and written fluency, lexical and syntactic complexity, and accuracy, experienced by four groups of learners of English: children in a study abroad setting, children in their at-home school, adults in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Language Acquisition, Achievement Gains
Keyvanfar, Arshya; Bakshiri, Naeimeh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
Recently ELT has witnessed the debate between the proponents of non-interventionist and interventionist views towards SLA. The former, also known as zero option, sees L2 acquisition as an incidental process leaving no role for instruction (Krashen, 1981; Prbhu, 1987), while the latter considers instruction effective and even crucial for some…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, English Language Learners, Intervention
