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Sophea, Yin; Chanyoo, Natthapong – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the tendency to use temporal markers (TMs) in English writing by three different levels of Thai writers. Data used in this study were based on the Corpus of Thai Writers of English. The corpus size of approximately 8,800,000 words consisted of essay writing produced by intermediate and advanced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Younas, Muhammad; Afzaal, Muhammad; Noor, Uzma; Khalid, Samina; Naqvi, Swaleha – English Language Teaching, 2020
Code-switching (CS) is a communicative strategy used by ESL bilingual teachers to teach English as a second language to non-native English speakers. Based on quantitative analysis of transcribed data from thirty ESL teachers at Pakistani universities, the present study examined the influence of code switching (CS) on ESL learners in Pakistan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
Chen, Hsueh Chu – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study (a) conducted a feature analysis of the spoken data of Chinese university students in pronunciation, grammar, and discourse, (b) investigated the contributions of the discrete linguistic features to the perceptual ratings on foreign accent, comprehensibility, delivery, and general language use. Ten university learners were selected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
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
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)
Li, Xi-ping – English Language Teaching, 2021
Writing is one of productive skills and a way of conveying information considered to be the most complex and the most challenging skill for EFL English learners to acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on the revelation of the characteristic of writings of EFL learners and how to improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Li, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2020
The debate on how to understand such expressions of multiplication entailing "times" as "n times more than" and "increase (by) n times" has been on and off in China since the 1980s. A review of literature seems to suggest that despite early-stage divergence in understanding, there is a general consensus among the…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Luo, Yuehan – English Language Teaching, 2019
While research on students' perceptions of code-switching in EFL classrooms has proliferated over the past several decades, limited research has been conducted to understand students' perceptions with different levels of language proficiency in English. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected from students with different…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Gao, Linghui – English Language Teaching, 2019
College English writing is one of the four basic skills in English learning, which can objectively reflect students' language ability. Whereas, English writing is considered to be the most difficult part to improve. As we can see, in the essays of the Chinese college students, there often appears Chinglish, correct in grammar but unauthentic in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Lam, Boji P. W.; Sheng, Li – English Language Teaching, 2020
Significant variation exists in how native speakers respond to word association tasks and challenges the usage of nativelikeness as a benchmark to gauge second language (L2) performance. However, the influence of word class and trials of elicitation is not sufficiently addressed in previous work. With controlled stimuli from multiple word classes,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Native Speakers, Associative Learning, Task Analysis
Sriwantaneeyakul, Suttawan – English Language Teaching, 2018
Translation ability requires many language skills to produce an accurate and complete text; however, one important skill, critical reading in the research, has been neglected. This research, therefore, employed the explanatory sequential mixed method to investigate the differences in Thai-English translation ability between students with a high…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Translation, Semantics
Long, Robert W., III. – English Language Teaching, 2018
For many sociolinguists, the issue of shyness and hesitation phenomenon has been problematic for Japanese L1 and L2 speakers, particularly in gendered interactions. Over the past decade, more Japanese are shunning conversations, relationships, and isolating themselves, which is accelerating the demographic crisis in Japan. Thus, this paper focuses…
Descriptors: Japanese, Syntax, Shyness, Interpersonal Communication
Rismiyanto; Saleh, Mursid; Mujiyanto, Januarius; Warsono – English Language Teaching, 2018
Students at universities are still frequently found to have low independency in learning. Besides, lecturers also still have tendency to treat students as if they were young learners, or in other words, the lecturers still use pedagogically oriented teaching methods (POTM); although they claimed themselves to have applied methods of teaching…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hajiyeva, Konul – English Language Teaching, 2015
This article reports on the results of two studies on receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge of first-year English majors in an English-medium degree programme. The aim of the study is to answer these research questions: (1) to what extent do the receptive and productive vocabulary sizes of English majors increase after a year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Vocabulary
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)