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Rana Zeynali Hamied; Sima Modirkhamene – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Learning a language is one typical and common cognitive phenomenon among human beings. What matters even most, is the additional language learning and advantages it may confer; an issue which cannot be simply overlooked in cognitive studies. The developmental effect of learning an additional language on memory is something that is confirmed in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Short Term Memory
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Hayriye Sakarya Akbulut; Ismail Hakki Mirici – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study examined the Turkish EFL students' perceptions of task-based language assessment (TBLA) in the blended learning environment at the tertiary level. It aimed to discover whether there were any significant differences in their perceptions based on gender and level of proficiency. It was a cross-sectional survey design study using the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Blended Learning, Task Analysis, Rating Scales
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Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study examines nominal derivational affixes in a multilingual practice in the Philippines involving Hokkien, Tagalog, and English called Lánnang-uè. A feature of this practice is the systematic combination of affixes and roots (henceforth, 'system'). Certain morphological combinations (e.g. Tagalog prefixes + English root) are used frequently…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Multilingualism
Hughes, Ruthanne Joy Wenger – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Nonnative English speakers are often judged based on their accent, but accent is perceived as well as produced. Race, gender, and religion interact to create complex and nuanced figures of personhood (Agha, 2005) impacting teachers' perceptions of students. Teachers' individual differences, including language proficiency, exposure to language, and…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Dozie, Chinomso P.; Chinedu-Oko, Chioma N.; Anyanwu, Patricia N.; Ojilere, Ijeoma C.; Ihejirika, Richard C.; Otagburuagu, Emeka J. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Gender and language studies in general have not been fully explored in most parts of the globe particularly in Nigeria. The objective of the study therefore was to examine the politeness and hedging strategies in the English language conversation of Igbo native speakers in Nigeria as well as establish whether men and women's conversational styles…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tara L. Hofkens; Jessica Whittaker; Robert C. Pianta; Virginia Vitiello; Erik Ruzek; Arya Ansari – Grantee Submission, 2022
Despite research demonstrating the importance of mathematics achievement to children's educational success and trajectories, many children enter kindergarten without the foundational mathematics skills needed to succeed (Garcia & Weiss, 2015). Children's executive function (EF) skills and their learning-related behaviors (Anthony & Ogg,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Mathematics Achievement
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Alshebl, Alia – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate gender differences in classroom interactions and preferences by analysing data collected by a questionnaire, observations and interviews. The data were collected focussing on male and female attitudes towards the teacher's gender, teacher's body language, the task partner's gender, the task type,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Classroom Communication, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
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Senel, Müfit – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
This paper outlines an attempt to research the speech act of suggestion of ELT students majoring at a state university in Turkey. A written discourse completion task (WDCT) and a semi-structured interview were used to collect data. The WDCT was developed by the researcher, and the responses of the participants were analyzed based on…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McDonough, Kim; De Vleeschauwer, Jindarat – rEFLections, 2021
This cross-sectional study compares the written language of Thai EFL students in their first two years of university study. First- and second-year students (N = 170) wrote opinion paragraphs by hand in response to six prompts. Using automated textual analysis tools, clausal (subordination), phrasal (coordinated phrases and complex nominals), and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Seo, Misun – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study investigated the influence of L1 allophonic rule, L1 segment articulation, and gender in Korean learners' production of English /s/ in two different contexts (i.e., before a high front vowel vs. elsewhere) and at three different proficiency levels in English (i.e., low vs. intermediate vs. high). The influence of the Korean allophonic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Korean, Gender Differences, English (Second Language)
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Farias, Priscila Fabiane; da Silva, Leonardo – Education Sciences, 2021
Although Brazilian governmental documents have conceived language teaching from a critical perspective, the recent scenario points to a backlash towards critical perspectives on teaching, which have been socially perceived as indoctrination. Since we understand critical pedagogy in additional language classrooms as a necessary emancipatory…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Deveci, Tanju – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2022
Forcing education institutions to rely on online learning exclusively, the recent pandemic has brought lifelong learning (LLL) to the forefront. The effects of the recent education approaches on students' LLL skills merit investigation. First-year students may be at a greater risk because of their limited tertiary education experience and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Lifelong Learning, Educational Experience
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Kubicek, Claudia; Gervain, Judit; Loevenbruck, Hélène; Pascalis, Olivier; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Infant and Child Development, 2018
The present study investigated German-learning 6-month-old infants' preference for visual speech. Visual stimuli in the infants' native language (German) were contrasted with stimuli in a foreign language with similar rhythmical characteristics (English). In a visual preference task, infants were presented with 2 side-by-side silent video clips of…
Descriptors: Infants, Speech Communication, Gender Differences, Preferences
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Foote, Rebecca K.; Saadah, Eman – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
According to previous research, speakers of European languages parse regularly-inflected, morphologically-complex words into stems and grammatical affixes during word recognition. In contrast, some studies suggest that late second language (L2) learners do not. We ask how these types of words are processed in Arabic, a language whose primary…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Word Recognition
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Erikson, Jessie A.; Alt, Mary; Gray, Shelley; Green, Samuel; Hogan, Tiffany P.; Cowan, Nelson – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examined accuracy on syllable-final (coda) consonants in newly-learned English-like nonwords to determine whether school-aged bilingual children may be more vulnerable to making errors on English-only codas than their monolingual, English-speaking peers, even at a stage in development when phonological accuracy in productions of…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Phonology, Syllables, Bilingualism
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