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Taweesak Emsawas; Tsukasa Kimura; Shintaro Ogura; Hironori Morita; Ergashov Abdullajon; Bernard Grundlehner; Mototsugu Ogura; Masayuki Numao – Discover Education, 2025
Second-language (L2) knowledge of English is an essential communication tool in the contemporary era of globalization in many research and business fields. Among the important tasks in English education is the measurement of student proficiency. While various tests purport to measure proficiency in learning English, repeated preparation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Cognitive Processes
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Jie Zhang – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
This paper explores the development of an intelligent translation system for spoken English using Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models. The fundamental principles of RNNs and their advantages in processing sequential data, particularly in handling time-dependent natural language data, are discussed. The methodology for constructing the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Translation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software
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Wenjing Chen; Chunyan Liang; Zhao Gao; Jiehui Hu; Tao Wang; Shan Gao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Speech listeners focus on a speaker's face to acquire different information in social communication. Fixation on the mouth associates with language processing and attention to the eyes is mainly driven by social/emotional cues. Here, we investigated how selective attention to the eyes and mouth would vary with language-emotion interaction during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Bilingual Students, Chinese
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Hamedi, Seyyedeh Mina; Pishghadam, Reza – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Given the fact that the process of engaging and interacting with the text is not only the function of a reader but also the text itself, the current study attempts to examine the role of the type of the word in the attentional engagement. More specifically, the present investigation aims to verify the interplay of sensorimotor information,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Perception, Attention, Lexicology
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Dolgunsöz, Emrah – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Numbers (i.e. 45) are symbols that are common in reading texts in various forms such as dates, percentages, and quantity expressions. Each digit corresponds to a word, unlike words in which each letter represents a phoneme. Despite their high frequency in reading texts, eye movement research on numeral processing is still rare. Numerals are easy…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Second Language Learning, Oral Reading
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Szudarski, Pawel; Mikolajczak, Sylwia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study is a replication and extension of Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) investigation into the role of attention in input processing by L1-Polish learners of L2-Spanish, with proficiency and language of assessment explored as two key methodological factors. Our aims were twofold: to investigate learners' comprehension in different conditions…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khezrlou, Sima – Language Awareness, 2021
The present study explored the effect of task repetition with and without explicit instruction on EFL learners' (n = 26) explicit and implicit English regular past tense structure development. One group (REP) repeated the same task (n = 12) while another group (EI + REP) received explicit instruction between performances of the same task (n = 14).…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Zangani, Ebrahim; Fallah, Nahid – TESOL International Journal, 2019
In the light of evidence that attention can facilitate and enhance learning, this study attempts to investigate the allocation of attention to meaning and form simultaneously in reading comprehension in the foreign language among monolingual and bilingual learners of English. To this end, three groups of learners namely, bilingual (knowing…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Attention
Bergsleithner, Joara M., Ed.; Frota, Sylvia Nagem, Ed.; Yoshioka, Jim K., Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2013
This volume celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisition. The 19 chapters encompass a compelling collection of cutting­-edge research studies exploring such constructs as noticing, attention, and awareness from multiple perspectives,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Attention, Language Processing
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Trofimovich, Pavel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
With a goal of investigating psycholinguistic bases of spoken word processing in a second language (L2), this study examined L2 learners' sensitivity to phonological information in spoken L2 words as a function of their L2 experience and attentional demands of a learning task. Fifty-two Chinese learners of English who differed in amount of L2…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Second Languages, Oral Language
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Huang, Shu-Chen – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2008
Recent "Focus on Form" studies have emphasized the importance of learner--rather than teacher--generated attention to formal aspects of interlanguage. In this study, we took advantage of EFL learners' analytical grammar knowledge and designed a post-task approach to foster learners' self-initiated attention. Student dyads transcribed their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Field, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistics that first language listeners handle function words differently from content words. This makes intuitive sense because content words require the listener to access a lexical meaning representation whereas function words do not. A separate channel of processing for functors would enable them to…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Processing
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers