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Yu Tamura – Second Language Research, 2025
This study examined number marking comprehension among Japanese learners of second language (L2) English, whose first language (L1) does not have an obligatory number marking system. The study conducted an online sentence comprehension experiment with 96 L1-Japanese learners and 32 native speakers of English, wherein participants engaged in a…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Amiri, Fatemeh; Puteh, Marlia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper examines the different types of writing errors performed by 16 international postgraduate students undertaking an intensive English course at a public university in Malaysia. It was mandatory for international postgraduate students who obtained less than IELTS Band 6 to undertake an Intensive English Course (IEC) offered by the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Harrison, Sandra; Morgan, Roger – Language Learning Journal, 2012
There is an increasing sensitivity to the challenges posed by the language of examination papers and of instruction in scientific subjects, especially for non-native speakers of English. It has been observed that in addition to technical subject-specific vocabulary, non-technical words such as instructional verbs have been sources of difficulty,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Manufacturing Industry, Sentence Structure, Computer Software