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Download full textJeptarus, Kipsamo E.; Ngene, Patrick K. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this research was to study the Lexico-semantic errors of the Keiyo-speaking standard seven primary school learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Keiyo District, Kenya. This study was guided by two related theories: Error Analysis Theory/Approach by Corder (1971) which approaches L2 learning through a detailed analysis of…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semantics
Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku; Role, Elizabeth; Tuguta, Ellen – Online Submission, 2013
This paper looked at students' perceived level of English proficiency among Dodoma secondary schools in Tanzania. Factors like attitude, anxiety, classroom activities, motivation, and learning resources were considered as influencing English learning. The study was guided by three theories: Input Hypothesis, Inter-language and Vygotsky's theory of…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku; Role, Elizabeth; Tuguta, Ellen – International Journal of Instruction, 2013
This paper looked at students' perceived level of English proficiency among Dodoma secondary schools in Tanzania. Factors like attitude, anxiety, classroom activities, motivation, and learning resources were considered as influencing English learning. The study was guided by three theories: Input Hypothesis, Interlanguage and Vygotsky's theory of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Bu, Jiemin – English Language Teaching, 2012
Studies in interlanguage pragmatics have shown that L2 learners' proficiency has an influence on the occurrences of L1 pragmatic transfer. However, questions remain whether the relationship between L1 pragmatic transfer and L2 proficiency is positive or negative. This paper is designed to study L1 pragmatic transfer in requests made by Chinese…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedWakabayashi, Shigenori – Second Language Research, 1996
Examines experimental data relative to second language acquisition of English reflexives. The article focuses on an experiment designed to tap syntactic constraints of interlanguage grammar and on the consideration of the consistency of responses of individual subjects. Findings reveal the systematicity of interlanguage grammar much more…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedJohnston, Bill; Kasper, Gabriele; Ross, Steven – Applied Linguistics, 1998
A study in interlanguage pragmatics investigated the effect of three types of rejoinder (positive, negative, absent) on non-native informants' choices of strategies to perform complaints, requests, and apologies. Results show strategy choice differentially affected by rejoinder type, suggesting that findings from studies using different production…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
Levenston, Eddie A.; Blum, Shoshana – 1978
After a survey of current methods of studying lexical acquisition, none of which are really suitable for studying how specific words are acquired and used by adult learners and how such usage differs from that of native speakers, a method is proposed for the study of such qualitative aspects of second language lexical acquisition. Learners are…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Grammar, Interlanguage
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
