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Mohamed Mekheimer – Discover Education, 2025
This study investigated the impact of generative AI-assisted writing feedback, specifically using Grammarly, on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' writing proficiency, revision practices, and writing quality. Sixty postgraduate EFL students were randomly assigned to either an experimental group using Grammarly as an AI-enhanced feedback…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software
Tomoko Oyama; Hyun-Sook Kang – Language Awareness, 2024
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McManus, Kevin; Liu, Yingying – Language Teaching, 2022
We closely replicated Wu and Ortega (2013), who found that an elicited imitation test (EIT) reliably distinguished low-level from high-level language abilities among instructed second language (L2) learners of Mandarin Chinese. The original study sampled learners: (1) from second-level courses to represent low-level language abilities; and (2)…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Imitation
Xi Yu; Frank Boers – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
There are grounds for believing that prompting language learners to infer the meaning of new lexical items is beneficial because inferring the meaning of lexical items and verifying one's inferences invites more cognitive investment than simply being presented with the meanings. However, concerns have been raised over the risk that wrong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences
Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)
Kim, Hyunjoo – English Teaching, 2023
In L2 pragmatics, only a few studies have examined task complexity. Furthermore, the existing studies have predominantly focused on the cognitive dimension and have lacked consistent findings. González-Lloret and Ortega (2018) and Pallotti (2019) have thereby contended that socio-interactional features be incorporated into task design. Along this…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Difficulty Level, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Uchihara, Takumi; Clenton, Jon – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Research has suggested the important role of vocabulary knowledge in second language (L2) speaking proficiency. However, earlier studies tended to disregard the congruence in test format between assessing vocabulary knowledge and speaking skills with the former predominantly measured in written format. The current study measured vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Soohye Yeom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the wide introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions throughout East Asian countries, many East Asian universities are using English proficiency tests that were not originally designed for this context to make admissions and placement decisions. To support the use of these tests in this new EMI context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
Hyeonah Kang – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
Using a lexical decision task, Wolter and Yamashita (2015) showed that collocations that exist only in L1 but not in L2 were not processed faster than collocations that only exist in L2 but not in L1 or a random combination of two words. This result seems to support the age/order of acquisition effects (Carroll & White, 1973) over Jiang's…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Phrase Structure, Language Usage, Decision Making
Durand-López, Ezequiel M. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
Bilinguals recognize words with shared morphology and phonology cross-linguistically (i.e., cognates) faster than words that do not have these characteristics. Moreover, higher phonological overlap in cognates enhances the effects, which suggests that phonology eases word recognition. However, it is currently unclear whether words compete purely…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
Kanazawa, Yu – SAGE Open, 2021
Emotion plays important roles in learning, memory, and other cognitive processes; it does so not only in the form of "macro-level emotion" (e.g., salient affective states and self-reportable motivational currents) but also in the form of "micro-level emotion" (e.g., subtle feelings and linguistic attributes that are usually…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing
Casañ-Pitarch, Ricardo; Gong, Jingtao – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The use of video games in the foreign language classroom is becoming an emerging tendency. This paper aims at analysing how the serious video game "ImmerseMe" influences the learning of Spanish as a foreign language within a group of 22 Chinese students. This research was conducted through an experiment that included testing…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yeldham, Michael – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Instruction in second language (L2) English phoneme pronunciation almost invariably includes a focus on improving the learners' use of their articulatory organs to pronounce the relevant sounds. However, the pronunciation of many English sounds also relies on effort from the abdominal region, and under-utilization of this region can often…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction
Chen, Hao-Jan Howard; Lai, Shu-Li; Lee, Ken-Yi; Yang, Christine Ting-Yu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Knowledge of collocations is essential for English academic writing. However, there are few academic collocation referencing tools available and there is a pressing need to develop more. In this paper, we will introduce the ACOP (Academic Collocations and Phrases Search Engine), a newly developed corpus-based tool to search large academic corpora.…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English for Academic Purposes, Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics
Lecouvet, Mathieu; Degand, Liesbeth; Suner, Ferran – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
The Bottleneck Hypothesis argues that properties of inflectional morphology explain why second-language learners may face persistent difficulties in articulating meaning in target-language forms. In particular, the acquisition task proves even harder when first and second languages differ in the way they organize the mapping of functional features…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Syntax