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Download full textAhmad, Siti Nurshafezan; Muhammad, Ahmad Mazli; Kasim, Aini Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2018
New trends in vocabulary learning focus on strategic vocabulary learning to create more active and independent language learners. Utilising suitable contextual clues strategies is seen as vital in enabling and equipping language learners with the skill to guess word meaning accurately, moving away from dependency on a dictionary to improve their…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Vocabulary Development, Business Administration Education, Business Communication
Xiping, Li – English Language Teaching, 2016
It is a heated discussion among researchers of foreign-language teaching on how to enhance the audience awareness through the design, organization and implementation of classroom teaching of EFL writing, which is crucial for effective writing both in mother and in foreign language. And it is widely acknowledged that the cultivation of social…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
Yin, Zhaochun – English Language Teaching, 2013
Lexical inferencing is referred to as guessing the meaning of an unknown word using available linguistic and other clues. It is a primary lexical processing strategy to tackle unknown words while reading. This study aims to explore the clue use of Chinese EFL learners in inferring the meaning of unknown word in reading. Two types of introspective…
Descriptors: Inferences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians
rad, Shadi Khojasteh; Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah – English Language Teaching, 2012
Hesitation strategies appear in speech in the form of filled or unfilled pauses, paralinguistic markers like nervous laughter or coughing, or signals which are used to justify units in the coming utterances in which the speaker struggles to produce. The main functions of these forms of hesitation strategies have been associated with speech…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rohani, Gholamreza; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study investigated the effect of context on the strategies the EFL learners utilized to process idioms. To do so, ten Iranian intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to two groups who then attended a think-aloud session. The 5 subjects in the first group were exposed to an animated cartoon including 23 unfamiliar idioms while…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Figurative Language, Cartoons
Tran, Huong Quynh – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated the situation of teaching and learning idioms at a university level in Vietnam, a foreign language context. It also examined the evaluation of the idiom teaching process in three language classes over a 15-week period for pre-service teachers of English. The data were collected though questionnaires, in-depth interviews and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
