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Lisda Nurjaleka; Rina Supriatnaningsih; Yuyun Rosliyah; Muthi Afifah; Tommi Yuniawan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Sociolinguistic awareness is crucial for L2 learners because language is not just a set of grammatical rules and vocabulary; it is deeply intertwined with social and cultural context. The linguistic landscape serves as a conduit for discerning facets of language use in a given community. This study focuses on raising sociolinguistic awareness…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Metalinguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
van Dijk, Gerald; Hajer, Maaike; Kuiper, Wilmad; Eijkelhof, Harrie – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
Using language adequately within technology tasks is part of technological literacy. However, this can be challenging for students, and a teacher may need to help students to master aspects of domain specific language that matter for the task at hand. In this study, a curricular design was developed through a series of trials, with the aim to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Instructional Design, Language Proficiency
Yachao Sun; Huan Feng – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study explored the impacts of translingual practices on English as an additional language (EAL) writing education in a non-English as a medium of instruction (non-EMI) context at a Chinese university. The findings highlighted the benefits of translingual practices in enhancing students' comprehension, easing cognitive challenges, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ait Hammou, Brahim; Larouz, Mohammed; Fagroud, Mustapha; Akki, Fouad – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
This study aims to examine the relationship between the productive knowledge of some lexical and phraseological indices and the quality of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' writing. A sample of 120 expository essays, written by semesters 1 and 5 university students in a less proficient EFL context, are rated by human evaluators and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Sophea, Yin; Chanyoo, Natthapong – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the tendency to use temporal markers (TMs) in English writing by three different levels of Thai writers. Data used in this study were based on the Corpus of Thai Writers of English. The corpus size of approximately 8,800,000 words consisted of essay writing produced by intermediate and advanced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Yang, Yanxia; Wei, Xiangqing; Li, Ping; Zhai, Xuesong – ReCALL, 2023
With the dramatic improvement in quality, machine translation has emerged as a tool widely adopted by language learners. Its use, however, has been a divisive issue in language education. We conducted an approximate replication of Lee (2020) about the impact of machine translation on EFL writing. This study used a mixed-methods approach with…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Asención-Delaney, Yuly – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Spanish heritage speakers in the United States exhibit a wide range of linguistic profiles due to a combination of political, social, and educational factors. Most of them acquire Spanish at home without formal instruction in writing. Although previous research has explored the main challenges faced by these learners in Spanish writing courses, no…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Native Language, Spanish Speaking, Writing (Composition)
Stephanie Kinzie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
The field of language instruction is crucial in Canada, given the number of newcomers seeking to improve their English (or French) language skills after arrival. For those who plan to enter post-secondary education but do not meet required language proficiency scores, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs provide opportunities to strengthen…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jinsil Jang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With the increasing number of young emergent multilingual language learners in transnational contexts, there is a growing need to explore and examine how emergent multilingual children develop their translingual competence and how they exercise their agency to engage in translingual practices across different settings (e.g., home and school). Yet,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Personal Autonomy
Ekoç-Özçelik, Arzu – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
The use of interactional metadiscourse markers in opinion paragraphs written by A2-level English learners was investigated in this research. Although metadiscourse is commonly studied in discourse analysis, pragmatics, and language teaching, there has been limited attention given to the writing of beginner-level language learners. Metadiscourse is…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hani Hamad M. Albelihi; Arif Al-Ahdal – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The current study explores error fossilization in the academic writing of Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduate learners. A manual textual analysis approach, employing corpus content analysis on writing across diverse genres including argumentative, expository, narrative, and descriptive essays was conducted to discover the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Xu, Jun – L2 Journal, 2022
While the use of machine translation (MT) in the classroom has been explored from various perspectives, the relationship between language proficiency and MT use regarding learners' behaviors and beliefs remains unclear in the research literature. This study focused on four Japanese learners with various language proficiencies from a fourth-year…
Descriptors: Translation, Japanese, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Writing to Increase Complexity: Spanish L2 Learners' Complexity Gains in a College Composition Class
Restrepo-Ramos, Falcon – Hispania, 2021
This study examines the linguistic complexity of Spanish as a second language (L2) in learners' essays across proficiency levels at two timelines of a composition class during a college semester. Data comes from 22 L2 learners of Spanish enrolled in two sections of a third-year composition class at the college level, who were assigned nine…
Descriptors: Spanish, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kisselev, Olesya; Soyan, Rossina; Pastushenkov, Dmitrii; Merrill, Jason – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Linguistic complexity serves as an important measure of second language (L2) writing development. Complexity indices, however, rarely feature in the studies of learner languages other than English. Additionally, L2 writing studies have been criticized for the lack of consistency in defining proficiency. The current study addresses these gaps by…
Descriptors: Russian, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Fiona Kwai-peng Siu – Online Submission, 2023
Peer review is generally regarded as a useful learning tool for students, providing them with opportunities to interact with their peers when engaging in the process of critical reading and critical thinking, thus possibly raising students' motivation to learn. For peer review to be a manageable task for students, appropriate scaffolding is…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation