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Paleczek, Lisa; Seifert, Susanne; Schöfl, Martin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The current study digitalised an assessment instrument of receptive vocabulary knowledge, GraWo-KiGa, for use in Austrian kindergartens. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study looks at 85 kindergarteners in their last year (age M = 5.79 years, 51.8% male, 71.8% L1 German), to find out (a) whether the form of digital assessment employed meets…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Receptive Language, Foreign Countries, Native Language
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Yenkimaleki, Mahmood; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Moradimokhles, Hossein – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
In the present study, three groups of interpreter trainees were formed, two experimental groups, i.e., blended prosody instruction (BPI) and computer-assisted prosody training (CAPT), and one control group (CON). In this experiment the participants took part in a four-week teaching program for 16 sessions (60 minutes per session), i.e., 16 hours…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Computer Software, Pronunciation Instruction
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Mirzaei, Siamak; Lewis, Trent W.; Wyra, Mirella; Wilkinson, Brett – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This research study tends to evaluate the efficaciousness and usability of a Vocabulary Learning And Strategy Teaching Web-App (VLASTWA) -- a customised and targeted web-app for (1) teaching the KeyWord Method (KWM) which is a widely investigated vocabulary learning strategy, and (2) facilitating new vocabulary learning via KWM. In this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sénécal, Anne-Marie; Cardoso, Walcir – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This study examined the acquisition of L2 English vocabulary with clickers, focusing on the role of individual differences. Following a pretest-posttest design, we measured perception and performance among 61 English learners who took part in a vocabulary acquisition treatment, in which they answered Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) via clickers…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Vocabulary Development, Scores, Second Language Learning
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Paik, Soojeong – English Teaching, 2022
This paper examined the effects of online English-medium instruction (EMI) on high school students' performing English face threatening speech acts, by assessing indirect expressions and token agreement (agreement plus but). Participants completed an English placement test and English pretest and posttest through a Google survey. English…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Torres, Julio – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
Manipulating cognitive demands on second language (L2) tasks, along with the provision of recasts and its effects on L2 development, has motivated recent inquiry within task-based research. However, empirical evidence remains inconclusive as to the impact of task complexity, and it is unknown how it may affect heritage language (HL) development.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Acquisition, Native Language
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Teeranon, Phanintra – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
This research analyzes the acoustic characteristics and conducts a perception test of Thai tones produced by Chinese learners learning Thai through the "Thai Tone Application". A comparison of Thai tones pronounced by 40 Chinese learners learning Thai at Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University with 40 Thai native speakers was also…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Language Tests, Thai
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Hee Jin Bang; Kirsten Olander; Erin Lenihan – CALICO Journal, 2020
This study examines the English language learning outcomes of young Chinese L1 children when using a digital self-guided learning tool, ABCmouse "English Language Learning Academy" (ABCmouse ELL), created by Age of Learning, Inc. and designed based on principles of second language research. In a pretest, posttest study design, experiment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
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Yürük, Nurcihan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Pronunciation is one of the main problems in language teaching and learning and it gets little attention. Most of students underestimate the importance of pronunciation considering that pronunciation is less important than other aspects of language. Many researchers investigated the weakness of pronunciation among students in all stages. However,…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Pronunciation Instruction, Computer Software, Pretests Posttests
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Ramsin, Araya; Mayall, Hayley – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2019
This quasi-experimental quantitative study examined the effects of different multimedia learning environments on the learning outcomes of second language learners. The study was designed to specifically assess Mayer's redundancy principle by investigating whether there was a difference in performance outcomes of second language learners…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Ruiz, Simón; Rebuschat, Patrick; Meurers, Detmar – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The extent to which learners benefit from instruction may be largely dependent on their individual abilities. However, there is relatively little work on the interaction between instructional effectiveness in second language learning and learner individual factors. In this study, we investigated the relationship between instruction, individual…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wong, Man Ho Ivy; Zhao, Helen; MacWhinney, Brian – Language Learning, 2018
This study investigated the effects of teaching English prepositions using schematic diagrams inspired by cognitive linguistics in a computer-based tutorial system called the English Preposition Tutor. Training was designed based on the theoretical framework of the Competition Model and a cognitive linguistic analysis of prepositions. Sixty-four…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Elgort, Irina – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This study investigates differences in the language and discourse characteristics of course blogs and traditional academic submissions produced in English by native (L1) and advanced second language (L2) writers. One hundred and fifty-two texts generated by 38 graduate students within the context of the same Master's level course were analysed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Writing Assignments
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Mohammadzadeh, Ahmad; Sarkhosh, Mehdi – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The current study attempted to investigate the effects of self-regulatory learning through computer-assisted intelligent tutoring system on the improvement of speaking ability. The participants of the study, who spoke Azeri Turkish as their mother tongue, were students of Applied Linguistics at BA level at Pars Abad's Azad University, Ardebil,…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Turkish, Native Language, Applied Linguistics
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This study investigated the effects of two modes of corrective feedback, namely, face-to-face recasts and computer-mediated recasts during video-conferencing on Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' second language (L2) development. Moreover, the accuracy of the learners' interpretations of recasts in the two modalities was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Native Language
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