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Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Michelle Oraa Ali; Paula Rubio-Fernandez – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
This study aims to advance our understanding of the nature and source(s) of individual differences in pragmatic language behavior over the adult lifespan. Across four story continuation experiments, we probed adults' (N = 496 participants, ages 18-82) choice of referential forms (i.e., names vs. pronouns to refer to the main character). Our…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Individual Differences, Pragmatics, Aging (Individuals)
Noboru Sakai – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
This study aims to investigate ChatGPT's ability to comprehend input from nonnative speakers, specifically those learning English as a second language, with Japanese speakers serving as the model population. The experiment examines how ChatGPT evaluates the difficulty levels of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Tlatso Nkhobo; Chaka Chaka – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2023
This article reports on a comparative analysis of two sets of essays, student-discursive essays (SDEs) and ChatGPT-generated discursive essays (ChatGPT-GDEs) on the same essay topic using Coh-Metrix. It focused on three Coh-Metrix indices, lexical density, syntactic complexity, and referential cohesion as the basis for the comparative analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
Issa, Iyad – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Spelling poses a challenge to Arabic-speaking learners due to the complexity of the morphological and orthographic systems in Arabic. Arabic morphology has been argued to play a critical role in spelling since its morphological operations are built on a system consisting of a root that is interlocking into different patterns of vowels to form…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spelling, Arabic, Written Language
Shutt, Montakarn; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The purpose of this research is to investigate the variable production of English Object-Experiencer (OE) psych predicates among 80 L1 Thai EFL first-year university students. Psych verbs are notable for posing difficulty for learners due to a unique property that violates Grimshaw's (1990) Thematic Hierarchy. The participants were given a cloze…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
Durrant, Philip; Brenchley, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This paper aims to advance our understanding of how children's use of vocabulary in writing changes as they progress through their school careers. It examines the extent to which a model of lexical sophistication as use of low-frequency, register-appropriate words adequately captures development in vocabulary use across the course of compulsory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Word Frequency
Chen, Beyin; Hwang, Gwo-Haur; Wang, Shen-Hua – Educational Technology & Society, 2021
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in education is now widespread, and the use of robots in education has demonstrated a positive influence on students' behavior and development. However, the use of emerging technologies usually results in cognitive load, especially for elementary school students whose learning capacity has not yet…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Game Based Learning, Robotics
Elena Zaretsky; Susie Russak – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Acquisition of oral English verb morphology presents difficulties for bilinguals, learners of EFL and English-speaking monolingual children with specific language impairment. This study aimed to identify challenging English verb inflections among sixth grade speakers of Arabic (N = 85) and Hebrew (N = 86) using an elicited oral narrative task, and…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Arabic, Hebrew
Tahara, Nobuko – English Language Teaching, 2022
The present study attempts to identify difficulties that Japanese students encounter with metadiscursive nouns in writing second language (L2) argumentation essays. Metadiscursive nouns are abstract and unspecific nouns which can serve as cohesive markers by retrieving their meanings in the text where they occur. Using a selected number of nouns…
Descriptors: Nouns, Persuasive Discourse, Phrase Structure, Essays
Obasi, Jane Chinelo – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
It is pertinent to observe that the vagaries of the English language grammar constitute a major problem in the teaching and learning of English in a second language situation like Nigeria. The inherent structural irregularities within the English language have made it difficult for users and learners of English to grapple with the unconventional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Family, Neiloufar; Allen, Shanley E. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
The acquisition of systematic patterns and exceptions in different languages can be readily examined using the causative construction. Persian allows four types of causative structures, including one productive multiword structure (i.e. the light verb construction). In this study, we examine the development of all four structures in Persian child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
Mokhtari, Elahe; Talebinezhad, Mohammed Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The aim of this research was to probed whether using supplementary readings (short stories containing idioms) increase conceptual fluency of L2 learners. In line with the goal of the study, first, the researcher selected a sample of 30 female lower-intermediate L2 learners from Sadr Private Language Centre in Isfahan. She selected them based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Hsu, Tsui-Fang; Chen, Yu-Ju – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
In this modern and technologically dependent society, people seek to improve human performance, get higher productivity and increase user satisfaction with technologies. In Chinese society, Chinese Idiom learning plays an important role in vocabulary learning which cultural and social functions are involved. Therefore, an online game named…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Least Squares Statistics, Vocabulary Development
Luzon Marco, Maria Jose – International Journal of English Studies, 2011
Professional and academic discourse is characterised by a specific phraseology, which usually poses problems for students. This paper investigates atypical verb+noun collocations in a corpus of English technical writing of Spanish students. I focus on the type of verbs that most frequently occurred in these awkward or questionable combinations and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Technical Writing, Verbs, Nouns
Johnston, Malcolm – 1994
Issues and patterns in second language learning are discussed, drawing on a 1985 study with learners of English as a second language in Australia. Discussion begins with an analysis of the process of learning one form of verb marking, the ending "-ing." The inherent complexity of this form in English is examined, and ways in which…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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