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Hung-Tao M. Chen; Katelyn L. McClure; Thomas W. Morris – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Picture-in-Picture (PIP) is an effective lecture video design that includes a screen capture video in the center and the instructor's talking head in one corner. Few research studies have directly investigated the usage of PIP lecture design by non-native English-speaking (NNES) instructors. The current study investigated the effects of PIP…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Native Speakers
Fred Zenker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the interplay between the implicit knowledge that learners have of a nonnative language and their processing of that language, examining two types of relative clauses (RCs) in English: gapped RCs (e.g., "the man that they hired") and resumptive RCs (e.g., *"the man that they hired him").…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Native Speakers, Adults, English (Second Language)
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Sendurur, Emine; Dogusoy, Berrin; Yondemir Çaliskan, Neslihan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the subtitles embedded into either declarative or procedural video on non-native Turkish speakers' understandings of the content. In addition, their perceived difficulties about and eye behaviors during watching the two videos were explored. There were 40 volunteer international students from…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Turkish
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Revesz, Andrea; Michel, Marije; Gilabert, Roger – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study explored the usefulness of dual-task methodology, self-ratings, and expert judgments in assessing task-generated cognitive demands as a way to provide validity evidence for manipulations of task complexity. The participants were 96 students and 61 English as a second language (ESL) teachers. The students, 48 English native speakers and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Native Speakers
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Sanchez, Serafin V.; Rodriguez, Billie Jo; Soto-Huerta, Mary Esther; Villarreal, Felicia Castro; Guerra, Norma Susan; Flores, Belinda Bustos – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
Current assessment practices in the United States are not able to accurately capture the total linguistic, cognitive, and achievement abilities of bilingual learners. There are psychometric complexities involved when assessing and interpreting test results of bilingual students, which impact the validity of this practice. Further, the compromise…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Psychometrics, Difficulty Level, Language Tests
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Wu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers
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Murphy, Liz; Roca de Larios, Julio – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2010
Studies of cognitive processes in SL writing have paid attention to the strategies that writers use to tackle problems in composing. In text-generation, finding lexical items in the L2 to express their meanings is one of the most crucial problems writers have to face, for reasons related to the availability and accessibility of relevant linguistic…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
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Ahn, Jeahyeon; Moore, David – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The purpose of this study is to investigate how the instructor's accent influences the students' learning outcome, as well as how a student's accent perceptions may affect their learning. Unlike native voices, accented voices are not natural to the native speakers; therefore, it requires more cognitive resources for processing the information,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Learning Experience, Native Speakers
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers