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Pornwiriyakit, Pornchai; Dandee, Warinthon – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This research aims to study the problems of translating word and sentence structures from English into Thai made by students and to solve the English-to-Thai translation problems occurred in the paper test. The samples consisted of 127 students majoring in English for International Communication at Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lindstromberg, Seth; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Although retrieval of lexical forms is a prerequisite for language production, research of L2 vocabulary learning has focused much more on meanings and form-meaning mappings than on development of detailed, accessible mental representations of forms. This is particularly true with respect to multi-word items (MWIs). We report an experimental study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
T. Evile Fa'atauao Maila Fa'asili Fiapito P. Te'o Feleti – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The study focused on language skills of students entering and exiting from introductory Samoan classes at American Samoa Community College. The problem was growing writing deficiencies in Samoan evidenced by students' performance on the Samoan Studies Institute Exam for Basic Samoan Classes and classroom work. Faculty needed a swift grammatical…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Introductory Courses
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Zhao, Yongbin; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This article reports a classroom-based study of the effects of two types of corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of 3rd person "-s." One hundred and nine Chinese university students completed three communicative tasks: One group received implicit CF consisting of a single corrective move (implicit recasts), a second group received…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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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
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Sok, Sarah; Kang, Eun Young; Han, ZhaoHong – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article offers a methodological synthesis spanning 35 years of instructed second language acquisition research on the efficacy of form-focused instruction. Eighty-eight (quasi-) experimental studies were sampled from six academic journals: "Applied Linguistics," "Language Learning," "Language Teaching Research,"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar
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Anak Yunus, Crystal Callista; Hua, Tan Kim – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2021
Embracing gamification in education is, indeed, inevitable, especially with the arrival of the millennials whose lives are greatly influenced by digital technologies and favor learning in a fun, interactive, and engaging environment. Quizizz, a gamified educational tool, has gradually gained the interest of researchers and stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Arslan, Recep Sahin; Isik-Dogan, Sidika – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of planned focus on form method in the acquisition of target language forms in English. The study specifically examined the planned focus on form method and the teaching model in the textbook of the 5th graders in terms of the attainment of the objectives of the target unit 'Health'. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Pretests Posttests, Achievement Tests, English (Second Language)
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Nakatsukasa, Kimi – Language Teaching Research, 2021
This study investigates whether gesture-enhanced recasts lead to better production of the English regular past tense. Fifty-nine low-intermediate ESL students at a US university took part in communicative activities in class, during which they received, respectively, no feedback, verbal recasts, or gesture-enhanced recasts, the latter being a…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Estaji, Masoomeh; Ameri, Amirhamid Forough – Cogent Education, 2020
Dynamic Assessment (DA) is an implicit kind of assessment that most teachers and learners engage in during class time. Although there exists a body of research on the promising effects of DA, the studies have not compared the results across proficiency levels. This study examined the effect of interventionist approach to DA on Iranian English as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Comparative Analysis
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Grey, Sarah; Jackson, Carrie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2020
Linguistic self-confidence is an underlying factor in L2 motivation and positive L2 learning outcomes. However, few studies have investigated its hypothesized relationship to objective L2 learning outcomes or the relationship between self-confidence and cognitive and affective individual differences that influence L2 learning. In this study,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Affective Behavior, Accuracy
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Ha, Thi Yen Nhi; Pham, Hong Hai; Tran, Trung Nghia – Online Submission, 2023
The study aims to measure the effect of Task-based language teaching on grammatical achievement and the motivation of EFL learners at Dong Nai Technology University. The research will conduct a quick grammar test to administer 48 students at the school to achieve this goal. After sitting the test, the learners will undergo a 6-week course applying…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gholami, Leila – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Focus on form (FonF) studies have predominantly addressed its effectiveness in improving learners' syntactic, lexical, orthographic, and phonological knowledge. Extending the scope of this line of research to formulaic FonF practices, this study investigates the relative effectiveness of incidental FonF targeting formulaic versus nonformulaic…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kim, Ji Hyun – Language Teaching Research, 2021
This study explored the relative effect of recasts on second language (L2) Korean learners' accuracy development of the object relative clauses (RCs) and the honorific subject-verb (S-V) agreement in Korean and its relationship with language analytic ability (LAA). Forty-five L2 Korean learners participated in the study and five Korean native…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
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Lee, Minjin; Révész, Andrea – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the extent to which individual differences in working memory (WM) mediate the effects of captions with or without textual enhancement on attentional allocation and L2 grammatical development, and whether L2 development is influenced by WM memory in the absence of captions. We employed a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest…
Descriptors: Role, Short Term Memory, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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