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Ozcan, Aysegül; Kuruoglu, Gülmira – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2018
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder that affects thought, language and communication. Considering the language disorders, the aim of this study is to examine the average sentence length of patients with Schizophrenia and compare the results with a control group by using four different language tests. Fifty patients with schizophrenia…
Descriptors: Patients, Schizophrenia, Speech Communication, Language Impairments
Chang, Jia-Wei; Lee, Ming-Che; Su, Chien-Yuan; Wang, Tzone-I – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners generally encounter difficulty in using some special rules of Chinese grammar because such grammar points do not exist in their native languages. CFL learners require an effective learning strategy to assist them in acquiring a greater understanding of Chinese grammar. Thus, we integrated a…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Chinese, Grammar, Sentence Structure
Adjei, Amma Abrafi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study is aimed at examining how students of selected Teacher Training Colleges handle one important aspect of sentence structure, i.e. "subordination". Data were collected from written scripts, and tests responded to by 150 participants from three selected colleges. These were analyzed by identifying both correct and incorrect uses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Sentence Structure
Mubaideen, Taghreed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper aims at investigating the influence of neutral gender words on translating job titles from English language into Arabic Language. This qualitative research includes 20 postgraduate students doing their M.A in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature at Mu'tah University for the academic year 2015/2016.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation, Semitic Languages
Birketveit, Anna; Rimmereide, Hege Emma – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The case study investigates what impact extensive reading of authentic picture books/illustrated books had on the learners' writing skills in a Norwegian EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom of 11-year-olds. Furthermore, the study also looks into the importance the pictures/illustrations had for the learners and what type of picture-text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Picture Books, Illustrations, Writing Instruction
Silveira Neto, Agripino De Souza – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) has for long been considered as a Null-subject language due to its variability in regards to subject expression (e.g. "Era bom porque eu diminuia de peso...era muito gordinha" "That was good because then I could lose some weight...(I) was a bit chubby." C33:179). Such variability has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Pragmatics, Sentence Structure
Li, Li; Walsh, Steve – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents findings from what we believe to be the first large-scale study of its kind on the use of ICT (information and communications technology) in English language classes in China. Participants are 400 EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers from different types of schools in Beijing. The purpose of the study was to examine…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy

Camacho, Jose – Second Language Research, 1999
Analyzes the grammatical outcome of the conflict speakers of a head-final first language (L1) (Southern Quechua) face when learning a head-initial target (Standard Spanish) language in a naturalistic setting. Proposes that interlanguage sentential word orders reflect a transfer of two independent parameters from the L1: the possibility of having…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interlanguage, Interviews
Bezemer, Jeff – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2007
This article explores the attribution of linguistic resources to multilingual students in a primary school in the Netherlands. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a regular, multicultural classroom, it describes patterns of attribution emerging from observations of classroom activities and interviews with the teacher. Its focus is on the…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Multilingualism

Lafford, Barbara A.; Ryan, John M. – Hispania, 1995
Examination of the development of form/function relations of the prepositions "por" and "para" at different levels of proficiency in the interlanguage of study-abroad students in Granada, Spain, revealed "noncanonical" as well as "canonical" uses of these prepositions. The most common noncanonical uses were…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Mackey, Allison – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study of the efficiency of interactive tasks at eliciting targeted morpho-syntactic structures from child speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL). Two groups of subjects between 7 and 10 years of age were examined, one group with various first language backgrounds, and a second which used Spanish as their first…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries