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Xiufeng Zhang; Hengwen Yang – European Journal of Education, 2024
This paper aims to explore the perception and usage of epicene pronouns in English among Chinese EFL teachers, as gender fair language becomes increasingly important for promoting inclusion, respect for identity and expression. This study employed a survey of 284 EFL teachers along with a follow-up written task to assess their views and actual use…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ruba Fahmi Bataineh; Hiba Ahmad Al-Majali – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
This study examines the potential effect of mind mapping-based instruction on Jordanian EFL tenth-grade students' use of additive, adversative, causal and temporal conjunctions. A purposeful sample of two tenthgrade sections was drawn from a public school in Mafraq, Jordan. The two sections were randomly assigned into an experimental group of 14…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Trang, Nguyen Huynh; Anh, Khau Hoang; Khanh, Truong Nhat – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The current study attempted to investigate English collocations used in written translation among fourth-year English majors at a university. The participants included forty-one fourth-year English-majored students and three translation teachers who are teaching English-Vietnamese translation courses in the university. To gather data, the…
Descriptors: Translation, Word Order, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Paudel, Pitambar – Online Submission, 2022
With the change in socio-political and educational contexts in global academia, the trend of writing academic papers has arisen among Nepali students and educators in higher education. However, many of them are still unfamiliar with the basic standard to be incorporated in an academic paper. In this context, this study examined the post-graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Syntax, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Gunawardana, Anoma Abeywickremasinghe – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Errors are a reflection of competence level of language users. Therefore, with the purpose of understanding the competence level of teachers of English, the present study analyzed errors produced by twenty three non-native English speaking teachers pursuing a Bachelor of Education degree in Sri Lanka. Employing qualitative content analysis method,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Heidenfeldt, William – L2 Journal, 2020
In this article, I examine two focal students of L2 French whose curiosity and embodied learning inspired me to rethink my teaching about personal gender expression and grammatical gender and to develop curricular innovations that would open up pathways for self-expression in the L2 French classroom.
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Genç, Lale Gökçe; Atar, Cihat – Online Submission, 2022
Language is a magical key that human beings hold in their hands to open the door of communication. To succeed in communication, formal links are one of the aspects of language that need to be known and used in discourse in addition to the contextual factors (Cook, 1992). Hence, systematic exposure to them is essential for satisfactory language…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis
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Bram, Barli; Angelina, Patricia – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
Writing is a crucial skill and tertiary education students face difficulties in academic writing. This paper aimed to identify the setbacks or difficulties and the solutions to the setbacks experienced by Indonesian tertiary education students in academic writing. A survey was used as the method of this study. The data were collected through a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Language, Writing Skills, Writing Difficulties
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Nasrullah; Rosalina, Elsa; Elyani, Eka Puteri – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
Learning a foreign language for those who have their first and second language often puts learners in imperfection mastery such as irrelevant lexical choice, and source cultural bounds language utterances. Knowing the concepts merely cannot guarantee the process of avoiding mistakes or errors that learners have. There has been an amount of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Özkayran, Ali; Yilmaz, Emrullah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to analyse the errors of higher education students in English writing tasks. In the study, the paragraphs in the exam papers of 57 preparatory class students, studying at a state university in Turkey in 2017-2018 academic year, were analysed. The study was conducted using qualitative research method. Case study was used in…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Case Studies, Second Language Learning
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Roozafzai, Zahra Sadat – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
Considering the controversy about the nature of ergativity, the issue of whether a case morpheme is theta assigning or just structural case-marking, the present study tried to provide an evidence for either side or both. To this aim, the acquisition and use of ergative verbs were studied and possible explications of the errors were presented.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages
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Berezenko, Viktoriia – Advanced Education, 2019
The article is devoted to the problems of foreign language education in linguistic universities, namely to acquiring the pragmatic competence by students. The research questions whether EFL learners are pragmatically competent in using language in a certain communicative situation. The experimental teaching session proves that the special research…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kim, Ji Hyun – English Teaching, 2019
This article reports on a classroom-based study that examined the effects of direct focused and unfocused written corrective feedback (WCF) on the accuracy development of the past hypothetical conditional (e.g., "If I had had money, I would have bought a new computer.") and the indefinite article (a/an). The study employed a…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Classroom Research, Form Classes (Languages), Error Correction
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LeLoup, Jean W.; Schmidt-Rinehart, Barbara C. – Hispania, 2018
This current study reports the findings of sociolinguistic research investigating the place of the "voseo" in the Spanish language curriculum in the United States. The study describes the results of questionnaire responses from 177 US Spanish teachers and survey responses from 560 US college students of Spanish. Both instruments sought…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Enkin, Elizabeth; Mejias-Bikani, Errapel – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
In this paper, we discuss the benefits of using online translators in the foreign language classroom. Specifically, we discuss how faulty online translator output can be used to create activities that help raise metalinguistic awareness of second language grammar and of the differences between grammatical constructions in the first and second…
Descriptors: Translation, Internet, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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