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Thakur, Vijay Singh; Sulaiman, Moosa Ahmed Ali; Elahi, Ehsan – English Language Teaching, 2021
As far as the main purpose of teaching and learning of the Grammar of a language is concerned, it should tell the teachers and learners the principles and parameters of sentence construction in the given language, i.e. English Language in the context of the discussion in this paper. Incidentally, the grammatical device of tense becomes more…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Morphemes, Grammar, English
Jitpaisarnwattana, Napat; Chalmers, Hamish – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the effects of supplementing a traditional EFL class with a grammar-focused LMOOC. It also investigated students' attitudes to the LMOOC. Students taking a compulsory English course at a nursing college in Thailand were divided into two groups, a LMOOC group (n=33) and a non-LMOOC group (n=26). The LMOOC group engaged in a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
Zhang, Fenghua – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigates the pragmatic development of the refusal strategies to the four different eliciting types (1 request, 1 suggestion, 1 invitation, and 1 offer) by Chinese English major students with low-intermediate language proficiency. The data was collected through written discourse completion tasks, and coded based on the modified…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fu, Chunxia – English Language Teaching, 2021
Cohesion is a very important part of learning English. The Cohesion Theory of Halliday and Hasan is of great importance for people to acquire the knowledge of cohesion. This study is aimed at applying this Cohesion Theory in CET-4 listening comprehension which is an important test for Chinese college students. This study uses the test papers of…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Samad, Mujahitha Abdul – English Language Teaching, 2022
In many parts of the world, learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL) often face language difficulties and challenges in their performance in learning. These challenges and errors have multiple forms and causes, covering various language and skills aspects. This study focuses on the types of grammatical…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sahla, Shereen; Altalhab, Sultan – English Language Teaching, 2022
Wikis have been increasingly integrated into English-writing teaching and have served as one of the Web's most crucial social-networking tools, improving the writing of EFL learners worldwide. The purpose of this study has been to examine the positive effects of wiki-mediated collaborative writing and peer feedback on the grammatical and lexical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Abalkheel, Albatool; Brandenburg, Tara – English Language Teaching, 2020
Many language teachers spend countless hours correcting student writing in hopes of improvement in accuracy, but as of yet, there has been little consensus regarding the efficacy of written corrective feedback (CF) or the type of CF that is most efficient. Although many studies have been conducted on the topic, conflicting results have arisen. In…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Written Language, Feedback (Response), Educational Research
Alkhawajah, Fatimah – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study investigated whether there exists a differential effect of direct and indirect corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of rule-based features (simple present) and item-based features (prepositions). Fifty students enrolled in an EFL writing class were divided into four groups. Each group received one of the following…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
Shirav, Anastasia; Nagai, Emi – English Language Teaching, 2022
A quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of inductive and deductive types of instruction in the acquisition of a complex grammatical structure, the passive voice. The participants were two groups (n = 34) of second-year Japanese students from a vocational school who had three treatment lessons designed for each group embedded into…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests
A Mixed-Method Examination of Adopting Focus-on-Form TBLT for Children's English Vocabulary Learning
Lu, Zih-ying; Fan, Sa-hui – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigated the influence of focus-on-form task-based language teaching (TBLT) on Taiwanese children's English vocabulary acquisition and retention. Focus-on-form TBLT here refers to instruction in which the teacher and students interact, negotiate, and respond to each other on the subject of a second language (L2) vocabulary. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Task Analysis
Qi, Hongbo – English Language Teaching, 2022
Accuracy is widely recognized as one of the main dimensions in evaluating task-based oral performance. Indicators of accuracy vary in the literature of the effects of pre-task planning on the oral production. Enlightened by previous studies in pre-task planning and third-person singular "-s," this article intends to find out whether the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Graphs
Althaqafi, Abeer Sultan – English Language Teaching, 2018
'Grammar is the business of taking a language to pieces, to see how it works' (Crystal, 1996, p. 6). The study of grammar has fascinated people for many years, especially in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). However, in recent years people became uncertain about its value. Consequently, some educational institutions ceased to teach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Yu, Shuying – English Language Teaching, 2022
Most people want to be able to read their reading materials quicker and remember them effectively. Covering a large quantity of reading materials at a normal speed requires much more time than is usually available. Good readers, however, can cover a lot of materials by identifying key elements of a sentence for key idea with the help of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Materials, Reading Rate
Chang, Chuan-Chi; Wei, Li-Wei – English Language Teaching, 2022
Although the behavior and impacts of instructor reflection in writing classes have been extensively studied over the past few decades, a significant proportion of the work has concentrated on students' attitudes and utilization of all such responses, as opposed to teachers' perspectives, self-assessments, and actual text comments given. Research…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Wu, Baiyinna – English Language Teaching, 2022
The research was aimed to explore multilingual learners 'grammatical and pragmatic awareness from perspective of three layers of language awareness: perception, noticing and understanding in Chinese EFL context. The findings reveal that firstly, there exists negative correlation between three layers of grammatical and pragmatic awareness of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Grammar