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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
This study investigates interpreting directionality and interpreting competence of undergraduate interpreting students. It tried to answer the following questions: (i) Is there a significant difference between the beginners and advanced students' skills in Liaison interpreting from English to Arabic and Arabic to English, with Arabic as their L1…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Çiftci, Harun; Kömür, Sevki – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the effect of categorically different pre-reading activities in learners' L1 on reading comprehension and learning of focus-on-vocabulary. The participants were sixty Turkish EFL learners attending a state high school, and the data was gathered from their achievement test scores. We analyzed the data through one-way…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Native Language
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Gündüz, Tarkan; Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2021
The current study aimed to investigate the effects of providing instructions in L2 listening activities on the participants' performance in the classroom as well as the participants' views regarding the use of L1. The study included 48 students from the preparatory classes in the School of Foreign Languages, at a state university in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, College Preparation
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Bomgaars, Jill; Bachelor, Jeremy W. – Online Submission, 2020
The goal of this study was to elicit greater quantity and quality of output in speaking and writing from L2 Spanish students through Visual Thinking Strategies. Previous studies completed in the L1 classroom demonstrate that students exhibit gains when pairing whole-class discussion with writing, thus inspiring this present study. As such,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Comparative Analysis
Leung, Jenny – Online Submission, 2018
This reports examines the Fall 2017 early reading performance of students who attended the Austin Independent School District's English learner summer school program in June 2017.
Descriptors: Summer Schools, School Districts, English Language Learners, Reading Achievement
Demirkol, Tuba – Online Submission, 2019
Development of intercultural competence is a term that is mostly researched about learners who have experience in study-abroad contexts. Considering that we are living in a globalized world where trade, mass-media, the Internet, and various exchange programs have allowed people to interact with culturally-others without going abroad, we assume…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language)
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2017
This report summarizes existing evidence on the impact of mixed language classroom instruction, providing a summary of 2017 Austin Independent School District elementary students' performance on the state's reading test.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, School Districts
Uyar, Yusuf – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study is to determine the differences of grammar learning, if any, between the EFL classes in which native language (L1) is sometimes used and only target language (L2) is used. Participants were 42 prep year students from one of the universities in Turkey. They have been studying English for 9 months, and now they are in level…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Experimental Groups, Teaching Styles
Tokdemir Demirel, Elif; Kazazoglu, Semin – Online Submission, 2015
This study reports on the results of classroom research investigating the effects of using data-driven learning methods by students in revising their writing errors. The main purpose of the study is to examine to what extent is consulting a corpus effective in correcting lexical errors in their writing. It has been found in previous research that…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2017
This report provides information on Austin Independent School District's bilingual and English as a Second Language programs implemented in 2016-2017, summarizing the numbers of students served, and students' language acquisition and academic performance.
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Atas, Ufuk – Online Submission, 2012
This paper reports on a study that investigated beliefs about second foreign language learning of Turkish EFL learners, compared their beliefs about learning German, Italian and French as a second foreign language and explored within-group variation in these learners' beliefs. The primary purpose of this study is to identify Turkish learners'…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), French
Neo, Kian-Sen; Heng, Buai-Chin – Online Submission, 2012
This article is based on a research investigating the communication in primary mathematics classrooms. One of the research's objectives was to determine what languages were used in the primary mathematics classrooms, and to what extent, do teachers and students resort to code-switching in teaching and learning mathematics. A total of 16 classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Schenck, Andrew – Online Submission, 2010
Research suggests that characteristics of EFL input cause morphosyntactic features to be acquired in an order dissimilar to that found in ESL contexts. To determine whether acquisition order for Korean learners could be explained by characteristics of their EFL input, a Korean elementary school curriculum was analyzed. Morphosyntactic features…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Gossman, Ginger L. – Online Submission, 2009
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) aimed to improve teacher practice and improve student outcomes at Lanier and International High Schools in AISD. Overall, QTEL was moderately effective based on the myriad of mixed program results.
Descriptors: English Language Learners, International Schools, High School Students, Teacher Effectiveness
Yu, Xue-mei – Online Submission, 2007
With the shift of the concept of English teaching, learning beliefs and learning strategies are increasingly attracting researchers' attention. This study, based on a questionnaire, centered on the current situation of learning beliefs and learning strategies used by three-year college students. The result shows: (1) the students have the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Learning Strategies, College Students, Beliefs