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Mahmoudabadi, Zahra – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study has two main objectives: first, to find traces of teaching methods in a language class and second, to study the relationship between intended learning outcomes and uptake, which is defined as what students claim to have learned. In order to identify the teaching method, after five sessions of observation, class activities and procedures…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Behavioral Objectives, Academic Achievement
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Gao, Ying; Du, Wanyi – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper traces 9 non-English major EFL students and collects their oral productions in 4 successive oral exams in 2 years. The canonical correlation analysis approach of SPSS is adopted to study the disfluencies developmental traits under the influence of language acquisition development. We find that as language acquisition develops, the total…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Oral Language
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Du, Lihong – English Language Teaching, 2010
The Critical Period Hypothesis aims to investigate the reason for significant difference between first language acquisition and second language acquisition. Over the past few decades, researchers carried out a series of studies to test the validity of the hypothesis. Although there were certain limitations in these studies, most of their results…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Acquisition