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Dennis Laffey – English Teaching, 2024
This paper presents data capturing Korean university students' familiarity with English online acronyms, examines factors that may predict this familiarity, and presents an explicit instruction intervention involving vocabulary knowledge of online acronyms. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) measured students' vocabulary size, while a self-report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Vocabulary Development
Thompson, Nicholas Philip; Mutton, Trevor – Language Learning Journal, 2023
A number of factors among schoolchildren in England are currently contributing to poor attitudes towards speaking in the modern foreign languages (MFL) classroom. Although multiple explicit strategy-based instruction (SBI) intervention studies have appeared in recent years, very few studies have focused on its effect on oral skills and, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
Priven, Dmitri – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
Complex noun phrases (CNP) are a major vehicle of academic written discourse (Halliday, 1988; 2004). However, in spite of the view that they pose significant challenges to English language learners, they are often overlooked in preparatory English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs. This mixed methods study aims to investigate to what extent CNP…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, English for Academic Purposes, Syntax
Nalan San – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
As the traditional teaching paradigm is reversed in Flipped Classroom Model (FCM), it has the potential to empower the teacher to allocate more valuable face-to-face classroom time for productive language tasks. Digital flipped course contents encourage the students and the teacher to take advantage of becoming a member in an online learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Flipped Classroom, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study investigated the differential effects of implicit and explicit instruction of refusal strategies in English and whether and how the impacts of instruction methods interact with learners' working memory capacity (WMC). 78 learners of English were assigned to three groups (explicit, implicit, and control). Implicit instruction was…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Direct Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Azatova, Samantha – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2021
This study examined the effectiveness of using self-assessment and explicit strategy instruction to develop self-regulation in 4th grade lower-intermediate English Language Learners (ELLs) in an English-medium international school. The study took place in the English as an Additional Language (EAL) Department of the school, which is a student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Self Management, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning
Verch, Angelika; Nissen, Elke – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
Flipped classrooms have become a widespread form of pedagogical setting, yet there is no consensus on how to define flipped language learning. Several authors consider the use of videos that prepares in-class activities as an essential component. The study presented in this article examined the actual roles of videos in a corpus of 52 second…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Flipped Classroom, Second Language Instruction
Zaabalawi, Rafe S. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Prepositions form a hurdle for several EFL learners, Arabs in particular. One major catalyst is that the preposition systems in English and Arabic rarely correspond to one another. Most scholars who researched this area concentrated on the problem itself, rather than finding a successful remedy that can empower these students to masterfully handle…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Shammari, Hussein Ghanim – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
This study examined the impact of process-based listening strategy instruction on Iraqi EFL learners' listening comprehension and their metacognitive awareness of listening strategies. The study also investigated the differences in all of the five factors of the "Metacognitive Awareness of Listening Questionnaire" (MALQ) offered by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Koçak, Arzu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This research study investigated Turkish Tertiary Level EFL learners' recognition level of relative clauses. The study also examined the difficulty level of types of relative clause constructions for Turkish EFL learners and the effect of instruction on the learners' acquisition of English relative clauses. The data were gathered from two…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lynch, Jena – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2016
This action research project sought to investigate the role of explicit citation vocabulary instruction in the learning of citation style guidelines for an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing course at an English-medium university in Northern Thailand. The participants consisted of 120 undergraduate students enrolled in the EAP writing…
Descriptors: Citations (References), English for Academic Purposes, Action Research, Vocabulary
Farrokhi, Farahman; Atashian, Soheil – World Journal of Education, 2012
This study was set up to further investigate whether either of the instruction types, explicit vs. implicit, proves more efficient in ameliorating pragmatic performance of Iranian EFL learners. The speech act under investigation in this quasi-experimental study was refusal. Sixty Iranian learners of English as a foreign language participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Direct Instruction
Rivera, Christopher J.; Wood, Charles L.; Spooner, Fred – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2012
Schools across the country are inadequately prepared to meet the educational needs of English language learners (ELLs), much less the needs of ELLs who also have an intellectual disability (ID). In this exploratory study, three Mexican American elementary students with moderate ID were given vocabulary word instruction in English and Spanish using…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Sight Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Spanish