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Hippi, Kaarina; Lehto, Liisa-Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper discusses how persons of multicultural backgrounds describe in interviews their everyday experiences when using Finnish. The focus is on categories of linguistic (non)belonging described in interview interactions. The data consist of 23 single and pair interviews of 33 informants in total and come from two interview datasets. Data are…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism, Finno Ugric Languages, Language Usage
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Tim Stoeckel; Tomoko Ishii – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
In an upcoming coverage-comprehension study, we plan to assess learners' meaning-recall knowledge of words as they occur in the study's reading passage. As several meaning-recall test formats exist, the purpose of this small-scale study (N = 10) was to determine which of three formats was most similar to a criterion interview regarding mean score…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Classification
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Awang, Suryani; Hassan, Wan Nurhafiza Fatini Wan; Abdullah, Normah; Zakaria, Wan Nuur Fazliza Wan; Razak, Siti Shazlin – English Language Teaching, 2022
Communication strategies (CS) have been generally used to overcome oral communication problems in delivering the intended messages. While studies on CS mostly involved simulated communication contexts, the current study deviates from the past studies on CS by identifying the types of CS employed by candidates of real job interviews and examining…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nastaran Sadeghi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
This study aims to discover whether the oral placement tests in English language institutes in Iran conform to interview principles. To achieve this goal, thirty four placement interviews from different English language institutes in Iran are investigated and compared with the interviews principles in different point of views. Patton 2002 believes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral English, English (Second Language), Second Language Programs
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Ananda, Lalith – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
In the past three decades or so, the conceptual rigor of intertextuality has exercised enormous influence on pedagogical practices. In this context, intertextuality can also be used as a means of harnessing students' critical stances that are crucial for teaching language skills. Based on eight qualitative student interviews at a university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Qualitative Research
Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Ananda, Lalith – Online Submission, 2017
In the past three decades or so, the conceptual rigour of intertextuality has exercised enormous influence on pedagogical practices. In this context, intertextuality can also be used as a means of harnessing students' critical stances that are crucial for teaching language skills. Based on eight qualitative student interviews at a university in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods
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Soltani, Azimeh; Kheirzadeh, Shiela – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This study aimed to explore EFL students' use of writing strategies and their attitudes towards reading-to-write and writing-only tasks. The primary purpose of this study was to see whether there was any significant difference between the writing performance of reading-to-write and writing-only task groups of Iranian EFL learners. Also, this study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Ostovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Malekpur, Akram – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
Lots of studies have tried to test the effect of strategy training on vocabulary development. However, instead of trying to uncover the strategies that learners actually use, they have tried to expose learners to a list of strategies supported by theories. Although these theory-driven studies have provided the field with significant and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Salinas, Danisa – World Journal of Education, 2017
The research aims at exploring how macro and micro contextual factors have influenced on the construction of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' identity in education reform contexts in Chile based on sociocultural theories. Grounded theory was used in the methodological design to analyse and categorize data utilizing the ATLAS.ti…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Amerstorfer, Carmen M. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Has the "Strategy Inventory for Language Learning" (SILL) passed its expiry date? The SILL (Oxford, 1990) was designed as a self-evaluation tool to measure the frequency of language learning strategies used by foreign and second language (L2) learners. With simple mathematics, learners can analyze their strategy preferences overall and…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The study reported in this paper explored if learners' perceptions of two types of oral corrective feedback, recasts, and metalinguistic feedback, are influenced by their foreign language anxiety in classrooms. Corrective feedback was provided to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners who were homogeneous with regard to their proficiency…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Anxiety
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Cheng, Gary – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This study aimed to develop an automatic classification system, namely ACTIVE, for generating immediate and individualised feedback on students' reflective entries about their second language (L2) learning experiences. It also aimed to explore students' attitudes towards using the system to support the development of their reflective skills in L2…
Descriptors: Classification, Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Learning Experience
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Rassaei, Ehsan; Moinzadeh, Ahmad – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
In the current study, we present the results of an experiment with 30 Persian EFL learners in which we explored the learners' perceptions of recasts and metalinguistic corrective feedback. The participant learners received either recasts or metalinguistic feedback for their errors during task-based interactions with their interlocutors and then…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Feedback (Response), Classification, Recall (Psychology)
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Kasemsap, Bharani; Lee, Hugo Yu-Hsiu – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This study aims to explore the application of reading strategies to the reading of English texts by Thai vocational college students. Data were collected via questionnaire surveys, think-aloud experiments and semi-structured interviews. The research results reveal different typologies of reading strategies adopted by lower and higher level English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocational Education
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Macqueen, Susy; Pill, John; Knoch, Ute – Language Testing, 2016
Objects that sit between intersecting social worlds, such as Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) tests, are "boundary objects"--dynamic, historically derived mechanisms which maintain coherence between worlds (Star & Griesemer, 1989). They emerge initially from sociopolitical mandates, such as the need to ensure a safe and efficient…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Health Personnel, Languages for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
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