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Liu, Ying; Liu, Xin; Zhang, Yibei – English Language Teaching, 2021
EFL classroom teaching in China, no matter whether it is traditional one or a flipped one, is a dynamic communicative process by using English with the aim of learning it. The interactive discourse between the teacher and the student has its own pragmatic functions, especially the feedback given by the teachers which may influence the teaching and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pragmatics
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Tantiwich, Kornsak; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – English Language Teaching, 2019
Adopting the interactional linguistic framework, the study aimed at exploring the range and frequency of interactional functions of yes/no tokens used by Thai university students of A2 proficiency in their English conversation, and contrasting their use with that of English native speakers (ENSs). The data was derived from 83, two-three party…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Communication, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Alzahrani, Maha Abdulwahed – English Language Teaching, 2018
This qualitative study examines the experience of Saudi students in the process of learning English while studying in an anglophone country. Through the lens of progressive educational theory and passive learning style, specific factors such as the students' linguistic background and their current experience were explored. This study sought to…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Arabs
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Bhatti, Aisha; Shamsudin, Sarimah; Said, Seriaznita Binti Mat – English Language Teaching, 2018
In every society, language plays a vital role in communicating with each other as it allows speakers to expand their knowledge, deliver their ideas, opinions and feelings in the society. English, as a global language, provides a platform for communication for people who speak the language. Due to the growing trend in linguistic globalisation,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
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Borràs, Eulàlia; Moore, Emilee – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper explores the interactions of a groupwork team composed of both local and exchange students, with heterogeneous competence in English, in an English-medium CLIL context at a technical university in Catalonia. Plurilingual and multimodal conversation analysis is used to trace how the students jointly complete an academic task. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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)
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Chen, Jinshi – English Language Teaching, 2017
Legal case brief writing is pedagogically important yet insufficiently discussed for Chinese EFL learners majoring in law. Based on process genre approach and discourse information theory (DIT), the present study designs a corpus-based analytical model for Chinese EFL learners' autonomy in legal case brief writing and explores the process of case…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
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Alraddadi, Budoor Muslim – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study aimed to explore the effects of explicit teaching on the acquisition of spoken discourse markers (DMs) on EFL learners' presentation production. It also aimed to measure the impact of two different treatments on the acquisition of a set of DMs. This study is an experimental study and focuses on the overall production of spoken…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Ji, Yinxiu – English Language Teaching, 2015
Traditional approach of listening teaching mainly focuses on the sentence level and regards the listening process in a passive and static way. To compensate for this deficiency, a new listening approach, that is, discourse-oriented approach has been introduced into the listening classroom. Although discourse analysis is a comparatively new field…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Nonmajors
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Khodabandeh, Farzaneh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The current study set out to compare the effect of traditional and non-traditional instructional treatments; i.e. explicit, implicit, task-based and no-instruction approaches on students' abilities to learn how to write classified ads. 72 junior students who have all taken a course in Reading Journalistic Texts at the Payame-Noor University…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Writing Achievement
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Jaran, Samia A.; Al-Haq, Fawwaz Al-Abed – English Language Teaching, 2015
Languages tend to be modified to accommodate for the speakers needs, such as, discussing or dealing with certain topics and domains. An example, university students, in Jordan, modify their own language, being colloquial Arabic, with terms and expressions from the English language in order to interact and adapt to everyday college life. Due to…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Semitic Languages, Gender Differences, Questionnaires
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Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study examines how EFL learners in the non-English speaking communities (Jordan and Germany) handle communication in story-retelling, and uncovers the repair strategies, which they deploy in order to overcome communication breakdowns and pass comprehensible messages to their interlocutors. The study also analyzes factors governing the EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Liangprayoon, Somlak; Chaya, Walaiporn; Thep-ackraphong, Tipa – English Language Teaching, 2013
Coherence is considered one of the characteristics of effective writing. Topical structure analysis (TSA) has been taught to students as a revision strategy to raise their awareness of importance of textual coherence and helps them clearly understand its concept. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of TSA instruction in improving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Hellalet, Nadia – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study looks into the use of reiteration relations in EFL student writing. The aim is to determine the extent to which Moroccan college students rely on lexical cohesion to produce native-sounding texts. Twenty essays written by college students from two different levels were analyzed quantitatively using Halliday and Hasan's (1976) and Hoey's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Daif-Allah, Ayman Sabry; Albesher, Khaled – English Language Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to identify the discourse markers used by Saudi EFL learners in their paragraph writing. The study was conducted on fifty students of the Preparatory Year Program at Qassim University. Data were collected from one hundred paragraphs written by the students at the end of the first and second semesters of the academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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