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Wejdan Mohammad Zghoul; Ruba Fahmi Bataineh – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2024
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated the effect of using Flipgrid, an application through which teachers gather learners in virtual classrooms to allow interaction through video and audio sharing, on Jordanian EFL seventh-grade students' speaking performance (along with the features of fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary). Background:…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Thakur, Vijay Singh – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Like many non-native learners, English is a Foreign Language to Omani learners; therefore, Spoken English turns out to be difficult and often problematic. Non-native learners of English face several phonological problems mainly because most languages follow specific, predictable rules of pronunciation, but English does not. There are native and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Barriers
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Nievecela, Lilian C.; Ortega-Auquilla, Diego – English Language Teaching, 2019
This small-scale quasi-experimental research study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of cooperative learning (CL) strategies in the achievement of students' oral performance at the A1 Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level. The study participants were twenty-four seventh graders from a small rural primary school…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Program Effectiveness, Rural Schools, Elementary School Students
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López Páez, Kevin – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2020
With the advent of communicative methodologies, the promise to develop both fluency and accuracy was made as a goal for teaching and learning English as an international language. However, it did not happen (Richards, 2008). In an attempt to equalize students' both semantic and syntactic competence, this study investigates the impact of Swain's…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Palladino, Paola; Bellagamba, Isabella; Ferrari, Marcella; Cornoldi, Cesare – Dyslexia, 2013
It has been argued that children with dyslexia (DC) are poor at learning a foreign language (L2) and, in particular, reading foreign words. This assumption is so general that an Italian law (law 170, October, 2010) has established that DC may be completely exempted from foreign language learning and, in any case, should not be engaged in tuition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Y.-H.; Young, S. S.-C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
This paper presents a study on implementing the ASR-based CALL (computer-assisted language learning based upon automatic speech recognition) system embedded with both formative and summative feedback approaches and using implicit and explicit strategies to enhance adult and young learners' English pronunciation. Two groups of learners including 18…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Adults